If you happen to live in the Boston area and you feel like catching a musical featuring mutated zombie cheerleaders, toxic hot dogs, and all the pom-poms you can shake a stick at, the North Shore Players is preforming a musical titled, Pom-Pom Zombies this weekend. What’s it about? From the article:

Storyline: It’s the 1960s and school is out for the summer. With the gang all beach-bound and gathering at popular hangout Barnacle Betty’s, head cheerleader, Cindy Sue eats a hot dog mistakenly slathered with nuclear slime resembling pickle relish. The toxic condiment, scooped from an unmarked bucket being stored in the back room, had been brought over from the evil Ivana Ratnik’s nuclear power plant next door. If not outlandish enough, anyone Cindy Sue touches turns into a zombie, and the beach soon becomes overrun. Cindy Sue’s boyfriend, the beatniks, nerds, and tough-girl gang, Barracuda’s join forces to save the beach from the “atomic attackers.

Believe it or not, I actually grew up in the town of Peabody right next to Danvers. Here’s a little fun fact for you … Salem used to be comprised of Peabody and Danvers. The actual witch trials took place in downtown Danvers. It was the hangings that took place in Salem. Another little fun fact, both of the Proctors were hung in the trials, but their tavern continued to run long after their death. The tavern was known as the Proctor House which was a restaurant just down the street from my high school. The big event happened during my senior year. One day, it was there. The next day, it was gone. Now in its place … a Chinese restaurant. How’s that for history?

‘Pom-Pom Zombies’ invade Danvers