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Acting Funny
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Jack Burgess |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 52. Chorus. Three of the characters (two in one sketch, one in another) are intended to be played by children. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for the opening and closing songs are supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. (Original lyrics, music by Sir Arthur Sullivan) |
| Style | A revue - a set of 17 comedy sketches and songs, varying in length from one to ten minutes. Basically a family show, but includes mild swearing in a few of the sketches. |
| Synopsis | A collection of sketches, including opening and closing songs, five Great Moments from History, two French Lessons, three monologues, a very small circus, the ante-rooms to the after-life, a spoof of a medical soap opera, a martial arts demonstration and the Dead Carrot sketch. [Note that some of the longer sketches are also available individually.] |
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The Adventures Of Goldilockpick [Family Edition]
by
Todd Barty |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. Includes the three bears and the occasional wolf. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy play in two acts and in verse. This edition designed for performance by a company of kids. (There is also a version designed to be performed by adults.) |
| Synopsis | The Adventures Of Goldilockpick And Little Red Riding Hoodlum
A rhyming romp for some familiar characters in unfamiliar juxtaposition. |
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The Adventures Of Goldilockpick [Robust Edition]
by
Todd Barty |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. The difficult characters to cast could be the three bears and the occasional wolf (assuming that you already have a vampire in your company). |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy play in two acts and in verse. This edition is designed for performance by adults. |
| Synopsis | The Adventures Of Goldilockpick And Little Red Riding Hoodlum
A rhyming romp for some familiar characters in unfamiliar juxtaposition.
(It's a family show, but there is stage business including bottom pinching and flashing of comedy undewear, which may be inappropriate for a performing company of kids, therefore there is a separate 'family edition' of the show designed for performance by kids.) |
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The Affairs At Meddler's Top
by
Richard Coleman |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A hilarious comic spoof of a murder mystery, set in the 1920s. (Two acts - but relatively short.) |
| Synopsis | A country house weekend is organised with a view to trapping a thief. Various tangled affairs are revealed, leading up to a murder. |
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All Exclusive
by
Hugh Morrison |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Two members of the cast have a very brief cameo. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full length comedy play, somewhat challenging set, but only one setting. Includes swearing. |
| Synopsis | Not everyone is having the holiday they were hoping for in San Itairi. The rebels have closed the airport, so Ian can't get away, Karen's boyfriend won't visit the art gallery again and Angie is complaining again! And before things get any better, they're going to get a lot worse. |
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All in the Stars
by
Mark Billen |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Two act play aimed at a large cast of children. |
| Synopsis | King Confort is worried. He can't find a citizen who is willing to criticise him or his government, and tradition demands the execution of a critic to accompany his birthday celebrations. Discouraged, he informs his Astrologer that, dissatisfied with endless gloomy predictions, he has written into his will that the Astrologer must die fifteen minutes after the king breathes his last. The king's sisters then gang up on the Astrologer, pressuring him into predicting that the king will die, in the hope of worrying him into an early grave. Into all this confusion come a heavily disguised princess and her father, investigating the kingdom before her marriage to the king. All sorts of unfortunate and unforeseen consequences follow! |
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Apartment of the Feign
by
Channing Cornwall |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play (technically in three acts). A drama of personality and disturbance. |
| Synopsis | Bert shares his apartment with three imaginary friends who are very real to him. He's visited and then befriended by Liz, who's escaping from her abusive cop boyfriend. Bert's imaginary friends don't like Liz, but Bert falls in love with her. Finally Liz arrives so badly beaten that she dies in Bert's arms. He's arrested for the murder by unsympathetic cops and, at the last, is deserted even by his imaginary friends. |
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Around the World in Eighty Days
by
Richard Cowling |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 54. Chorus. In order to be faithful to Jules Verne, most of the characters are written male. How you cast them is up to you! (For example, whilst it was not so in Fogg's day, the Reform Club is now open to women!) |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal score for seventeen songs and nineteen pieces of incidental music is provided with the producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | Full-length school musical based on Jules Verne's novel. By the nature of the story, there are a lot of locations, but these can be presented in as simple or complex a way as you please. |
| Synopsis | Phileas Fogg accepts a wager to travel around the World in Eighty days. Armed with only Passepartout (his trusty French manservant) and pursued by a detective, he sets out, venturing via Egypt, India (where he acquires a princess!), Japan and the USA. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Conductor's score and band parts (Clarinet/Alto Sax/Tenor Sax, Trumpet, Trombone, Bass, and Keyboard) for 'Around the World in Eighty Days' by Richard Cowling
** Midi Files for the 36 songs and instrumentals from Around the World in Eighty Days by Richard Cowling. The files contain the band arrangements plus vocal lines.
** Backing Tracks for the 36 songs and musical pieces from Around the World in Eighty Days by Richard Cowling. (The tracks are the orchestrated instrumentals, with additional instruments playing the vocal lines.)
** Vocal recordings of all the songs from Around the World in Eighty Days by Richard Cowling. (Vocals by Richard Cowling and Leanne Cooper.)
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Bakers
by
Tim Cole |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. Optional chorus of bakery workers. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 8 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length comedy play - a family show - with strong characters, running jokes and a fair amount of bakery horseplay! Single main set (a bakery) with front-of-tab scenes. |
| Synopsis | Thanks to Mary's business partner, her bakery is about to close. Luckily the Town Hall Bread suppliers have failed and she could pick up the contract and save the bakery - unless her partner can throw another spanner in the works. |
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Bananas Are Yellow
by
Roger Hodge |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. All characters are adults, with a range of ages. Whilst there is no formal chorus, there could be 'extras' in the final act. |
| Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy play in three acts (three sets). Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Three stories connected by reappearing characters - a British Day Out to a stately home and maze, a day at the seaside, and a foreign holiday, all with their shares of embarrassment and accident. |
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