LEROY Um, hello? Is this the Math Club...
Overview
- Female: 3
- Male: 1
Context
The Numbers Nerds are a math team at Waukesha Charter High School, a Catholic all-girl school which has recently become co-ed. They only have 3 members and need 4 to go to the National Mathlete SUM-IT. Enter Leroy, a nervous and awkward new kid at school who has been home-schooled until now by his missionary parents. Can he be their fourth member?
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LEROY
Um, hello? Is this the Math Club?
MARY KATE
Math Team.
AMBER
(sarcastically)
Depends. Are you looking for the “Numbers Nerds?”
LEROY
Um, I guess. That’s not the team name, is it?
BARBIE
Actually, technically, it is.
(AMBER rolls her eyes.)
The first team chose the name. They really liked alliteration.
MARY KATE
It’s tradition.
AMBER
(again, sarcastic)
Because “tradition” can’t be dumb.
(LEROY steps too close to AMBER, oblivious to social cues.)
LEROY
Tight. You guys need a new team member, right?
AMBER
(stepping back from him)
Right!
BARBIE
(sticks out her hand)
Hi! I’m Barbie!
LEROY
(shakes her hand)
LeRoy. I’m new.
MARY KATE
Obviously.
LEROY
(stepping too close to MARY KATE this time)
Is it that easy to tell?
(MARY KATE does not step away.)
MARY KATE
...you’re a boy. The school just went coed. Used to be Catholic? Ring a bell? By definition you’re new.
LEROY
Oh. Okay. Tight.
MARY KATE
What did you think I meant?
LEROY
Um—
(He looks around hoping someone will change the subject. The girls are all still staring at him. He rambles.)
So I am new, like, new-new, like new-to-the-country new, and actually I was homeschooled basically my whole life but we just moved here and my mom thinks that I should join a club or something to “socialize” and make sure that I’m not like behind in my development of interpersonal skills, so I asked the principal what club I should join and she told me to ask the janitor? Ms. McGery? So I caught her before lunch and she mentioned something about Math and I was going to ask for more information but she had to run and anyway I’m pretty good at math, so I asked around and they said you were here and here I am.
(Pause)
BARBIE
I like him.
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