Upper Darby HS Gets Visit From Tina Fey For 'Mean Girls' Promo

UPPER DARBY, PA – The Philadelphia area is home to a lot of notable celebrities. Musicians, actors, athletes, and more hail from our great region, and one who always seems to embrace her Philly-area roots is actor, writer, producer, and director Tina Fey.

Fey – a longtime writer and performer on "Saturday Night Live," creator and star of "30 Rock," writer of the movie "Mean Girls," and now writer of the "Mean Girls" Broadway musical (which is touting 12 Tony nominations) – honored her roots by visiting her Alma mater Upper Darby High School to promote the Broadway hit.

Fey was at the high school on Wednesday, May 23 to film a promo video for the musical, the school said on Facebook.

"Tina Fey visited UDHS to film a promotional video for her latest Broadway musical and spent a little time with some students who had seen the show," the school said on Facebook. "Once a Royal, Always a Royal! Welcome home, Tina!"

Students in the school's Encore Choir even performed a song for the alumni, who just hosted the 43rd season finale of "SNL."

Fey's tributes to the area go deep.

She laid the Philly accent on thick during an episode of SNL recently in which she and other case members played colonial Philadelphians bickering against colonial New Englanders in a throw-back Super Bowl sketch.

And before that, she and Jimmy Fallon stopped by the Weekend Update desk as suburban Philly moms, rocking Eagles and Villanova gear, also laying the accent on thick.

On "30 Rock," she lambasted NBC to an extent by poking fun at its acquisition by Comcast (guised as Kabletown in the show), with Alec Baldwin's character asking how a Philadelphia company could buy a New York company.

The "Mean Girls" musical has the most Tony nominations in this year's award season, including best musical, best book of a musical, and best actress among others.

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