We’ve been anticipating the opening of Clueless: The Musical for a long time now, and it’s finally here! The show opened on Wednesday, Dec. 12, and it honestly looked and sounded like it’s even better than we imagined. To celebrate the big night, Dove Cameron and her co-stars attended the Clueless: The Musical premiere, and boy did she look absolutely stunning.

But besides slaying the red carpet, the 22-year-old spent the night taking a walk down memory lane, when she shared the sweetest throwback pic ever in honor of the premiere. “My first ever show premiered in New York tonight. I’m now home, emotional, looking at this picture and crying,” she wrote. “I never really believed that my life would turn out like this.”

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so, this is weird to say, but: my first ever show premiered in New York tonight. i’m now home, emotional, looking at this picture and crying, sitting on my couch, and eating for the first time in nearly 12 hours. for as many times as i imagined my life turning out like this, i never really BELIEVED that my life would turn out like this. or, maybe i did. childhood fantasy is hard to define and discern. but here is a photograph of me (10) and my sister (17), together and seeing times square for the first time ever. me, swearing up and down that i would be one of the people on these marquees one day. collecting every @playbill that i could find, never thinking that one day i would be on the cover of my own. i don’t know why i’m writing this to millions of strangers on instagram, except to say that it’s 6:26 in the morning, i should be asleep, #cluelessmusical is now officially open in Manhattan, i love my friends, my family, and @thomasadoherty, i can’t believe my luck, and i wish my father was here. sweet dreams.

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“Here is a photograph of me (10) and my sister (17), together and seeing times square for the first time ever,” she continued. “Me, swearing up and down that I would be one of the people on these marquees one day, Collecting every playbill that I could find, never thinking that one day I would be on the cover of my own.”

Wow, talk about coming full circle! Scroll through our gallery to see Dove dazzle at the Clueless: The Musical premiere.

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