When The Nerds Bit Beverly Hills
by Cynthia Mercati

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Highlights

90 mins Present Day Reduced Casting (Doubling Possible) Bare Stage/Simple Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes American Comedy

Synopsis

Count Cosmo Dracula and family move into the Hollywood mansion left them by their Uncle Igor, and decide to open up a summer camp to make some money.

They don't exactly get the class of campers they expected - they get a trio of nerds, in fact, but that's ok, since the courses the Draculas are offering aren't your usual run of the mill basket-weaving types of classes.

Granny makes creatures in her lab, not brownies.

Science teacher Wendy wants to start off with explosives, and mom Dracula Malicia, whose father was a Frankenstein, wonders if she couldn't teach brain surgery.

But snobbish Sybil and her cheerleading proteges, along with their frat friends don't feel that people like the Draculas and the nerds belong in their lovely little world.

They're determined to close down the camp!

The war between the nerds and the snobs is on!

Characters

Character
Malicia

Mary Poppins of the spook sort.

Granny

A spry old girl and a real tiger (make that a werewolf).

Wendy

The sort of girl you wouldn't take home ot Mother-especially on Halloween.

Thing

She's got that certain something-and on and off switch.

Woody Winger

He gets through life with a minimum of work and a maximum of smart remarks.

Barnett Tuttle

A Woodchuck scout- and a nerd.

Jerome Ulch

Another nerd, he hasn't been the same since the last Star Trek convention.

Bernice

Make that three nerds-her most outstanding quality is her ability to blend into the woodwork.

Sybil Von Sable

She's into mink, meditation-and money.

Amanda

A class act.

Lance

The ultimate preppy, brain by L.L. Bean.

Biff

Athletics is his middle name-if only he could spell it.

Dr. Van Helsing

A mysterious stranger from the Old World.

Count Cosmo Dracula

Not exactly horror movie material.

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
Year 1987
Pages 74
Language English
ISBN-13 9780874404746
ISBN-10 0874404746

When The Nerds Bit Beverly Hills is a American comedy play written by Cynthia Mercati and published by Samuel French (1987).

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