The Parent Trap's Elaine Hendrix Joins Producing Team of Parody Play 'Ginger Twinsies'

Elaine Hendrix is best known for playing Meredith Blake in the beloved 1998 movie The Parent Trap and now she’s helping bring a parody play to New York!

It was just announced that Elaine has joined the producing team for the world premiere of Ginger Twinsies: A Parent Trap Parody (Legally Speaking).

“Meredith Blake has followed me in the best ways, and Ginger Twinsies is a joyful full-circle moment,” Elaine said in a statement. “This parody taps into The Parent Trap nostalgia audiences love, while personally giving me the chance to return to my theater roots—a place I’ve been longing to revisit. It’s wildly funny, full of brilliant talent, and exactly the kind of creative joy I love being part of.”

Ginger Twinsies is an 80-minute parody written and directed by Kevin Zak.

Here’s the synopsis: You want the 411? In the summer of 1998, a pair of long lost, red-headed twin girls unexpectedly meet at sleep-away camp and hatch a plan to reunite their estranged parents. Sound familiar? Shut up, no it doesn’t! Welcome to Ginger Twinsies – a loving, outlandish, and wildly inappropriate send up of the Lindsay Lohan/Nancy Meyers classic that made us all believe that Oreos go great with peanut butter, wedding gowns deserve top hats, and being young and beautiful is not a crime.

Ginger Twinsies will begin preview performances on July 10 ahead of opening night on July 24. The limited engagement will play at the Orpheum Theatre through October 26. Get tickets now!