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FERRIDAY, La. — Don’t miss the chance to witness something “fetch” at Ferriday High School.

The Concordia Parish Players will be presenting Mean Girls Jr. this Friday, April 4, through Sunday, April 6, at Ferriday High School.

Show times are at 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Sunday. Students can attend for $7 and everyone else for $10, with all proceeds supporting the performing arts program. Click here to purchase tickets.

These students have been working hard since January to bring the family-friendly, musical version of the Paramount Pictures film to life on stage.

Halli Curry, a Vidalia High School 10th-grader, plays a lead role as Cady in Mean Girls Jr. — her first on-stage debut since she was in kindergarten, she said.

“I’m a little nervous but mostly excited,” she said. “I’ve always wanted to do musical theater. … We’ve been working a long time it feels like on this particular show but it also feels like it has just flown by.”

Concordia Parish Players, a group in which students from schools all over Concordia Parish carry out all the many aspects of the performance from the acting team to the sound, lights and tech team, was founded in 2024. The group has had success with its past two performances — “Sister Act Jr.” last spring and “15 Reasons Not to be in a Play” last fall — while packing the house at Vidalia High School and Concordia Parish Academy.

Curry said that because the program involves students from multiple schools, she has found close friends with people she never knew before, all because of theater.

The main reasons she auditioned is because she loves to sing and because she loves the original Mean Girls movie and was excited for the role, Curry said. Her favorite part, Curry said, is a pivotal moment in the show “when Cady realizes she has been pretending to be something she is not.”

“It has a lot of similarities to the movie, just the junior version of it. I think that all of us have put a lot of effort and time into this and it has been really fun. I hope people have as much fun watching it,” she said. “I’ve found a new appreciation for theater, realizing how much time and effort is put into it. … I’ve loved singing all my life and enjoy the songs in this show — Love them. They’ve been stuck in my head since January.”