New 'Mean Girls' Movie Filmed At These Morris County Schools

MORRIS COUNTY, NJ — Two Morris County schools play a role in "Mean Girls," the movie musical set to release in theaters this Friday.

According to Jared Lowy, the associate director of marketing and communications for Delbarton School, a private all-male Catholic college-preparatory school in Morristown, certain sequences from the upcoming movie were filmed on campus.

Lowy said that Delbarton hosted the "Mean Girls" crew for a two-day shoot in early March, the first week of shooting for the movie.

Those who have seen the original should keep an eye out because the iconic Christmas talent show sequence was filmed inside the Morristown School, officials said.

And that's not the only Morris County school that will appear in the film.

According to NJ.com, “Mean Girls” was filmed throughout New Jersey, including at Saint Elizabeth University in Florham Park.

Here are some of the other filming locations around the Garden State:

• A landfill in North Arlington
• Mater Dei Prep, a Middletown Catholic school
• A private home in the Colonia section of Woodbridge

Tina Fey wrote the original "Mean Girls" screenplay, which is based on Rosalind Wiseman's book "Queen Bees and Wannabes."

This time "Mean Girls" is a musical, and it has some heavy hitters behind it: Fey and “SNL” producer Lorne Michaels are producers. Look for Fey to appear in the new movie as high school teacher Ms. Norbury. And "SNL" alum Tim Meadows will return to his role as Principal Duvall.

But the teenage actors are all new: Angourie Rice (of "Spider-Man") will play Lohan's role of Cady Heron; singer Reneé Rapp is Regina George, Bebe Wood is the new Gretchen Wieners and Indian-American actress Avantika Vandanapu will be Karen Shetty, the original role of ditzy Karen Smith, played memorably by Amanda Seyfried.

Here's the trailer:

Morris County and Morristown, in particular, have established itself as the setting for several film and television projects that are currently filming or have recently completed production

Recently, film trucks lined the streets outside of Jockey Hollow Bar & Kitchen and Roots Steakhouse to continue the filming of "American Sports Story Gladiator," an FX series about former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez, who was convicted of murder and committed suicide in prison.

Last year, Halle Berry and Mark Wahlberg were also spotted in Morristown filming a scene for a new movie, "Our Man From Jersey."

— With reporting by Carly Baldwin, Patch Staff