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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ABC December by Sherrill S. Cannon & Kerry E. Gallagher |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. Chorus. There are no specific characters. The lines are intended to be recited by one or more children. The lines could be spoken by individuals or an ensemble. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for ten songs to accompany the piece. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Performance piece for a nursery school / kindergarten class. |
| Synopsis | A rhyming review of December festivals (with a North American bias - it covers Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and other American celebrations, with a nod to their antecedents in other countries). |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Aesop's Fables by Gerald P. Murphy |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Characters include a wolf, a lamb, a lion, a mouse, three ants, a grasshopper, an owl, a dog, a tortoise, and a hare. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] Each story could be played separately. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for children - a narrated dramatisation of four of Aesop's fables. Very flexible format - no specific props or set needed and the stories could be presented individually or as a set. |
| Synopsis | Four tales in which wolf bullies lamb, mouse befriends lion, ants ignore grasshopper and tortoise out-runs hare. |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Aesop's Fables - The Musical by Gerald P. Murphy |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Characters include mice, a cat, a wolf, a lion and four foxes. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music (piano and vocal) for five songs and two instrumentals is provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Simple one-act musical for kids - a prologue and four of Aesop's fables. (A version of this collection of tales is available without the songs as Aesop's Fables II.) |
| Synopsis | A group of mice are delighted by their plan for constraining the local cat - until it comes to executing the plan. Meanwhile, a lion falls in love, a boy ruins his chance of promotion in the shepherding business, and a fox tries to make the most of a fashion disaster. (They all make a song and dance of it!) |
| 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: ** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show ** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show ** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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Aesop's Fables II by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Characters include mice, a cat, a lion, sheep, a wolf and foxes. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for children - a dramatisation of four of Aesop's fables. Very flexible format - no specific set needed and the stories could be presented individually or as a set. |
| Synopsis | A group of mice are delighted by their plan for constraining the local cat - until it comes to executing the plan. Meanwhile, a lion falls in love, a boy ruins his chance of promotion in the shepherding business, and a fox tries to make the most of a fashion disaster! (A musical version of this set of stories is available as Aesop's Fables - The Musical) |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Aesop's Fables III by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Characters include farm animals, crows and various rodents. (Whilst they have gender-specific names, they're animals, and the gender of the actors is irrelevant!) |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for children - a dramatisation of four of Aesop's fables. Very flexible format - no specific set needed and the stories could be presented individually or as a set. |
| Synopsis | Tales of resourceful crows, splitting hares, bovine buffoonery and meals for mice. (If Aesop lived today, he would be inspired by the video of Tool-Making Crows on YouTube.) |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Androcles and the Lion by Peter Bond |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. The chorus - of soldiers, slaves, Christians and lions - is optional. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming fable for kids. |
| Synopsis | Androcles is a man who loves all living things - he's even reluctant to kill a lamb to feed himself. So when a lion appears, he's less worried about it eating his sheep and more concerned that there's a thorn in it's paw. Helping this lion turns out to be a good move in the long term... |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Bears Don't Cry by Charles Alverson |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The characters are a six-year-old girl (who might be played by any age!), a bear, a lion and two off-stage voices. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A charming short play for an audience of children with five woodland scenes and a theme of friendship. (The script might be performed by kids or by adults or by a mix!) |
| Synopsis | Young girl Shanni, separated from her bear hunter Daddy, is lost in the woods. She is befriended and cared for by Bear and a touching and deep friendship develops between the pair. [Our editor wished to stress that this script is not a reliable guide to the behaviour of ursines.] |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Billy Goat Gruff - Play by Gerald P. Murphy |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The troll is nominally male. One male goat and two female goats. The narrators are elves. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Simple play for young children. Basic stage set (a bridge!). Costumes, but no props. |
| Synopsis | Overweight goats meet greedy troll. The troll's dinner menu changes when Billy Goat butts in. |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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The Bird, the Mouse and the Sausage by Peter Nuttall |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute play for kids. |
| Synopsis | A tale of domestic bliss upset - with a moral message about the dangers of fire. One of Peter Nuttall's Grimm Tales (for Little Horrors) |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Brian the Christmas Tree by Sarah Cowan |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 24. No chorus. The number of characters is very flexible. It would be easy, for example, to add a number of dancing Christmas trees! |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Musical suggestions made in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Non-religious Christmas play for young(ish) children. Simple sets, simple props. |
| Synopsis | It's Christmas and the trees are waiting to be sold. All except grumpy Brian, who doesn't want to be a Christmas Tree - he wants to grow up to be a telegraph pole. |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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