All the scripts described below can be read in full on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site (click on the titles).
Click on the "Price" links for details of the script prices and licensing arrangements.
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Humbug
by
Geoff Bamber |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol presented as a short comedic play for kids. |
| Synopsis | When Jacob Marley dies he keeps his promise to come back and haunt his mean-spirited business partner, Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge has a particularly parsimonious attitude to Christmas and this reflects itself his treatment of his long-suffering employees, Bob and Molly Cratchit. In case Jacob's efforts to get Ebenezer to change his ways don't meet with success, he enlists the help of three ghostly friends. Will Christmas still be humbug or will Ebenezer see the light? |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Scrooge's Christmas Carol
by
Darren Humphries |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Mid-length, British pantomime. A comic rendition of Dickens' Christmas melodrama. |
| Synopsis | The Dickens tale with some huge liberties taken to make it as much of a pantomime as possible!
Scrooge and his housekeeper Lottie the Hottie go on a ghostly journey through the past, present and future in an attempt to make the old skinflint change his ways. |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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A Wiser Miser
by
Giles Scott |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Two songs are suggested in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act verse play. The staging, as presented, may be slightly complex, but the Producer's Copy of the script includes a couple of alternatives for simplification. |
| Synopsis | The miser in question, is, of course, Ebenezer Scrooge, as this is a rhyming version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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