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| The Babes in the Wood [Rhyming] by Peter Bond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Whilst the characters all have specific gender, it's a pantomime, so cast it however you like. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes lyrics for one optional song (to the tune of The Grand Old Duke of York). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A fun script which packs a lot of both physical and verbal comedy into its short running time |
| Synopsis | Ben and Lily are travelling through the dangerous Sherwood Forest, but these Babes are not as helpless as expected - they defend themselves with catapults and an assortment of vegetables against the Sheriff, the Nurse, Robin Hood, and even King Richard. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Bears Don't Cry by Charles Alverson |
| 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.] |
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| Billy Goat Gruff - Play by Gerald P. Murphy |
| 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. |
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| The Bird, the Mouse and the Sausage by Peter Nuttall |
| 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) |
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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. |
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The Bullies at Sam's Café by Stuart Ardern
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. There are three distinct chorus groups with flexible number - the piece was designed to be performed by a whole class. All roles are gender-neutral. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for two original songs is included with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Short one-act play for primary school children, with two songs. Nominally two sets, but no specific scenery, and only simple props. |
| Synopsis | A bully with a gang disturbs the staff and customers at Sam's café, but when the bullies get into trouble, should Sam and his friends help them? |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
** ZIP file containing MP3 tracks for the two songs from 'The Bullies at Sam's Cafe'. (The files are backing tracks, without any vocals.)
** ZIP file containing vocal demo MP3 tracks for the two songs from 'The Bullies at Sam's Cafe' by Stuart Ardern.
** Rehearsal tracks - simple accompaniment with an instrument playing the vocal line - plus vocal demo tracks for the two songs from The Bullies at Sam's Café by Stuart Ardern.
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| Butterfly Shoes by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Humorous one-act fairy tale for kids, simple sets. |
| Synopsis | An unheroic hero has to rescue a kidnapped granny from the clutches of a tribe of mountain Amazons, mainly, it appears, for the sake of the granny's shoes. |
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| Cagic Mup by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Characters include a pantomime cow. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fable told as a Spoonerising verse play for children. |
| Synopsis | Captain Spoon's family are starving. Their cow must be sold. The exchange for a magic cup provokes delight and disaster. |
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Caught By Christmas by Sharlee Glenn with songs by Erica Glenn
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Whilst the children are named as boys and girls, this is flexible! Both classes can be expanded by the chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music (for three original songs) is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Short one-act (secular) Christmas musical for kids. School set (two classrooms) but minimal set requirements and simple props. |
| Synopsis | Mr Grump teaches class 4b and is ignoring the approach of Christmas, as usual. Miss Jingle and the jollier kids of 4a are celebrating, and they decide to take their party next door, with interesting consequences. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
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| The Cautionary Tale of Humpty Dumpty by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. No specific gender requirement. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A rhyming comedy monologue, with no set requirement. |
| Synopsis | The bullying Humpty Dumpty meets his deserved end, as the narrator reveals how he - or she - pushed him off the wall and describes the subsequent rejoicing. |
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