Bernice Bobs Her Hair is based on the first story F. Scott Fitzgerald ever published: the original "mean girls".

Bernice is the plain country cousin who goes to visit the popular and gorgeous Majorie in the big city of St. Paul, Minnesota. After a disastrous beginning, Marjorie resolves to make over Bernice, inside and out. Marjorie's creation is a society success but becomes too successful for her own comfort when her own flame turns his eyes to the thrilling new girl. When Marjorie attempts to undo Bernice's new persona, Bernice defends herself with a lot more than Marjorie bargained for. Set in the years before women could vote, Bernice Bobs her Hair is a study of change in the air and the ways the turbulence that proceeds it winds it's way into personal lives of even the most unlikely and unpolitical people.

Adapted from the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald and the letters he wrote to his sister.
Composed by Adam Gwon
Book and Lyrics by Julia Jordan
Carl Menninger, director
Derek Bowley, music director