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Big Shot by Jonny Ardern Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. All characters are adults, but could be played by teenagers. Characters are Americans (of various regions), one Englishman and one Mexican-American. |
Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano & Vocal score (17 songs, 4 instrumentals) provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. Score for Musical Director and band (piano, guitar, bass, Alto Sax, Tenor Sax) available as optional extra. |
Style | Musical set in and around a casino. Songs in various styles including swing, ragtime, tango and jazz-funk. |
Synopsis | Gambler Ryan Thomas brings his naive English friend Jack to a casino. Whilst discovering the perils of the Blackjack table, Jack falls for Alice, the pianist with the house band. Unfortunately, Alice is already spoken for by Louis Diaz, known as Mr. Big Shot for his reputation as a lucky gambler. Luck which Jack decides to test - with unforeseen consequences, for this is the 1950s and Las Vegas gambling is dominated by the mob... |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Musical Director's Score for Big Shot (showing all vocal and instrumental lines) plus separate band parts for guitar, bass, tenor sax and alto sax. (Download as .pdf file.) ** A CD of backing tracks for all 17 songs from the musical 'Big Shot'. ** A Zip file containing MP3 backing tracks for all 17 songs from the musical 'Big Shot'.
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The Billy Goats Gruff by Sharon Stace-Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Chorus. Seven principals plus narrator and chorus. The script allows for multiple narrators, a chorus of courtiers and villagers and possibly an additional choir - thus the numbers are very flexible. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with piano and vocal scores for an overture and 14 original songs (including a couple of reprises). |
Style | One-act musical - rhyming script plus songs - for kids (and children!). Multiple locations, but can be done with minimal scenery and very few props. |
Synopsis | The time-honoured tale of troll meets goats given an additional twist as we learn of the history of how the troll became what he is (and the goats have more talents than just butting-in). |
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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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Bl... Bl... Bluebeard by Mark Billen |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. All characters are adults, intended to be played by children or by a mix of adults and children. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comic dramatisation of the Bluebeard legend (owing more to Offenbach's opera than to Perrault's fairy tale). Three sets, simple props. |
Synopsis | Duke Bluebeard lives in a grim castle and is feared by all. No one really knows what dark things happen in his castle. Having disposed of wife number five Bluebeard decides that Boulotte, the local May Queen will be his next wife, little knowing what he has let himself in for! Presenting his new wife at the court of King Bobeche and Queen Hortensia he spies their daughter Princess Marie and immediately decides that she shall be wife number seven. He orders his personal inventor, Popolani, to make the arrangements and proceeds to the palace. Challenged to a duel Bluebeard apparently kills Marie's fiancé, Prince Bruno, and demands the princess's hand in marriage. Suddenly Boulotte and Bluebeard's previous wives reappear and confront him. |
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Blood by Nettie Baskcomb Brown Original production won the Best Youth, Best Dramatic Endeavour, Best Youth Actor awards at the Harold Joliffe One Act Play Festival, 2013 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Flexible numbers provided by a chorus of clots! |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A highly original one-act play for kids, tackling a serious subject through comedy and delivering a lot of educational material about the body's circulatory system. [Revised 2021] |
Synopsis | Follow Porphy and Alpha, two young blood cells, who have to learn to deal with all that the human body throws at them. With the help of their family of red blood cells, a team of platelets known as the Clots and two pugilistic white cells, Luke and O'Cyte, these youngsters experience fry ups, a gym workout, a night on the town resulting in traumatic injury and a holiday in the sun! |
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Blue Ridge Cinders by Hilary Mackelden |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. This is a British pantomime, which means the assignment of roles to genders is pretty flexible. |
Run Time | Around 145 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 12 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | An innovative full length pantomime based on the Cinderella story. (Not quite the Wild West, but heading in that direction.) |
Synopsis | This new look at Cinderella sets the story in the town of Golden, Virginia, USA, with all the usual panto characters, including ugly sisters and fairy godmother - plus a bear and FBI agents. |
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Boadicea - The Pantomime by Giles Black |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 126 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 9 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Full-length (ancient) British pantomime. |
Synopsis | Queen Boadicea is deprived of her kingdom by the evil Roman Emperor Nero, who demands extortionate taxes in order to fund his new theatre. When her Iceni tribe try to resist, Boadicea's daughters Voira and Denua end up locked in Nero's dungeon. Boadicea gathers an assortment of heroes and less than helpful historical characters to save the day. |
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Botany Bother by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. Gerald, Geoffrey and Aloysius are written male, but need not be - well, give or take the beard. There are six speaking parts amongst the natives, but there could be many more chanting parts, if you happen to have a spare chorus of natives to hand. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play. The majority of characters speak a hitherto undiscovered language. (Fortunately, the script contains a glossary.) |
Synopsis | A pair of intrepid botanical collectors have an unfortunate encounter with the local inhabitants. |
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A Boy and A Snow Ball by Susan Vesey |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 34. Chorus. This is a pantomime. You can make your own mind up about which gender of actor plays which character! |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for songs (but not sheet music). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | British pantomime based on an original interpretation of the story of Snow White and the Seven something-or-other. Jokes, slapstick and mayhem! |
Synopsis | Many years ago tragedy struck the Kingdom of Snowdonia, leaving baby Princess Snow White an orphan. The beautiful but wicked Queen who took over as Regent now plans to trick Snow White into signing over her kingdom permanently when she marries Prince Kevin. There is only one problem: Snow White and Prince Kevin can't stand the sight of each other so the Queen comes up with another plan involving a poisoned apple. |
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A Boy and His Cat by Susan Vesey |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. Lots of pantomime juxtapositions possible, plus cat, dog, rats, woodland creatures and the appearance (possibly the first) of the pantomime octopus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 8 songs, including some original lyrics. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Full-length British pantomime. |
Synopsis | The story of Dick Whittington re-told in Panto style with a dog, a cat and numerous rats. A novel (science fiction!) twist on the story, in which Dick is tricked into a body exchange and has to clear his name and regain his own body in time to marry his true love. |
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A Boy and Some Beans by Susan Vesey |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 40. Chorus. Characters include the usual pantomime assortment (Dame, usually played by a man, Principal Boy, usually played by a girl) and a pantomime cow. |
Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Eight songs suggested. Original lyrics to some of the songs are included in the producer's copy of the scripts. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Full-length British Pantomime (magical characters and events, parodies, silliness and general mayhem!). Note that some of the scenes are optional and can be left out without harming the plot! |
Synopsis | To pay the rent on the family home, Jack has to sell the beloved cow. On the way home he gives the money to a crone in exchange for a magic bean and falls in love with the daughter of the Baron who's demanding the rent in the first place. Fast forward to the next day and the whole crowd are up the giant beanstalk to discover a smallish giant who hasn't been eating the girls sent up to him on their twenty-first birthdays, but has been treating them in his theme park, Ogreland. Thus Jack's long-lost sister is now, in fact, the Giant's wife, and even the Baron's wife is still alive and kicking. She redoes the Baron's accounts and finds enough money that everyone is let off rent for a year and Jack can marry his girl. |
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