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1001 Arabian Nights and a Matinee
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tlc Creative |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. Characters include a pantomime camel. Dame assumed to be played by male, principal boy by female. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Scores for 7 original songs supplied with the producer's copy of the script. (Other songs at the discretion of the producer.) |
| Style | British Pantomime. Slapstick, visual jokes, puns, mayhem and a camel. |
| Synopsis | There's trouble brewing in old Baghdad! Unless the Princess Jasmina marries before her 21st Birthday, the evil Vizier will take control of the city! Things look grim... but hang on! A posse of would-be heroes are here to save the day! The love sick Ali Barber (who pines for the Princess), his dim witted brother Singbad the sailor and his fearsome mother, Dame Barber are ready to intervene and foil the villain's fiendish plot. They are helped along the way by their pal 'Bob' (a lad with a secret), a pantomime camel named Humpy and a lady Genie who's been stuck in a magic ruby for far too long! |
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| 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
** Rehearsal CD with music for the 7 songs which are supplied with the '1001 Nights' master scripts. [Note that the script also suggests two points at which additional songs might be added at the discretion of the producer. These are NOT on the CD!]
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A 21st Century Nativity
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Peter van der Sluijs |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] Carols can be sung between scenes that would extend the length of this play. |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script suggests six carols to be interspersed between the scenes. (These would increase the run time to up to 30 minutes.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Short nativity play (though considerably longer if the suggested carols are sung), with optional traditional nativity tableau. Six scenes, but minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | What would the story of the birth of Jesus be like if it were to happen now? |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Ace of Clubs
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Garry R. Keane |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for a school or youth theatre. Single, simple set. |
| Synopsis | Two rival clubs - boys and girls - have to do some serious negotiating when one side seems to be gaining an advantage. But there's a bigger problem for both clubs on the horizon. |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Across The Road
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Peter Lancaster Walker |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch. Single set. Several domestic props - at least at the start of the play. |
| Synopsis | Mary and Henry are having a quiet afternoon at home, when Mary spots some strange goings on next door. It's a pity she doesn't keep a better eye on her own house... |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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The Adventures Of Goldilockpick [Family Edition]
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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. |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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The Adventures of the Jammy Dodger
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Melanie Roberts, music by Rod Parvess |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 43. No chorus. The characters are a mixture of ages - children, parents and grandparents - but all intended to be played by children. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for six original songs plus two adapted sea shanties is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Large cast play for kids - an adventure story with music. Lots of scenes but simple (minimal) sets. |
| Synopsis | A group of older folks encourage their grandchildren to try an old-style adventure, with fresh air, go-carts and pirates, and the children end up saving some ancient woods from building development.
A grand adventure story for schools. |
| 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
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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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