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Murder at the Music Hall by Laura Sanderson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Some suggestions for music and songs are made in the Producer's Copy of the script, though other period music could work just as well. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A melodramatic spoof of a country house murder mystery for a youth theatre company. Music Hall acts might be interspersed with the action! |
Synopsis | The cast of the Music Hall are invited back to the manor house of their sponsor, Hector Clarkson. They are joined by most of the Clarkson family and a Duchess, but his Lordship is missing... until he is found murdered! Time to ask: Whodunnit? |
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Musical Maurice and the History Hop by Cat Durning |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 34. Chorus. Thirteen principals (although the lead character could be played by three different actors) and scope for a large chorus (the original production employed three school classes!) |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script gives suggestions for three songs and various pieces of incidental music to accompany the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Time-travelling school play, Multiple locations but little needed in the way of stage furniture. (Locations indicated by music or acting!) |
Synopsis | A child and a grandfather get sucked into a whirlwind history tour by a time-traveller with a magic wand. |
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The Musicians of Bremen by Tony Best |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. No formal chorus, but there is the option of bringing on additional singers. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The script includes songs set to well-known music. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one-act rhyming play for Junior School pupils. |
Synopsis | Four unwanted animals, a donkey, a dog, a cat and a rooster, meet up and believe they have amazing singing prowess. Though everyone they meet disagrees, the band accidentally put to flight a band of robbers, and live ever afterward in the robber's house with their ill-gotten gains. |
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Musketeer by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] Plus additional time for songs and dances. |
Music | Opportunities for songs and dances at the discretion of the producer. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | One-act play for kids. Simple sets, varied characters, strong story line. |
Synopsis | A comic take on the life of 17th Century France, with D'Artagnan and the Musketeers in the middle of a struggle for power between the King and the villainous Cardinal Richelieu. |
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The Mystery Gift by Bill Tordoff and David Doughan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 15. Minimum Female roles = 15. Minimum total with doubling = 31. Minimum total without doubling = 31. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy to be performed by children (probably a whole class performance). No scenery, but requires a wooden horse (which need not be realistic!) |
Synopsis | A comedy based on the Trojan wars: It's Greeks against Trojans in the cup final. After a string of indecisive results, the Greeks attempt to win by subterfuge. |
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Nativity - The Christmas Story by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. The numbers of shepherds and Roman soldiers are flexible. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play for a class-sized cast, with a good range of speaking parts. No set requirements. A deliberately comic piece but keeping the traditional story in view. |
Synopsis | The traditional nativity story takes an inventive comic turn, with lazy shepherds, an unlikely group of visitors with Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh, and a bit of confusion over what to call the baby... but all the elements of the traditional story come together in the end. After all, this is how it really happened... well, more or less. |
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Nativity News by Sarah Cowan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 40. No chorus. Doubling possibilities make cast numbers very adaptable - at the Producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] This is dependent on the optional use of music suggestions. |
Music | Eight music - song -suggestions provided to use for scene changes and for sound effects. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one act play, with musical interludes, for children to perform. |
Synopsis | The Nativity story re-told in an upbeat new way, using reporters and a 'newsdesk'. See the Shepherds interviewed in the fields! See the animal experts give their opinions on the donkey! All the events revealed in a fun way. |
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The Nativity Story by S. J. Edwards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 32. No chorus. There are multiple narrators, villagers, servants, shepherds, sheep and angels. Numbers can be expanded or contracted to suit the production. Characters include a number of talking animals. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | One carol is suggested in the Producer's copy of the script. Others might be added at the discretion of the production team. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | One act, humorous play suitable for 9-12 year olds. Simple set requirements. It's fun, but still contains all the relevant information and doesn't mock the subject of the story. |
Synopsis | The story of the birth of Jesus retold with a light touch of humour, retaining the original story intact. |
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The Nightly News by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 21. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fantasy performed in the style of a news programme - minimal sets and props for a TV studio and roving reporters. |
Synopsis | The studio anchors for The Nightly News introduce stories from the lands of Spoonerism, rhyme, hyperbole and cliché. (Only two of which are uncommon in more conventional news programmes.) |
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Not Another Nativity by Paul Cockcroft |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 13. Minimum Female roles = 13. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. Genders for parts are nominated, but could be altered as required. |
Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act nativity play with rehearsal settings. |
Synopsis | Teacher becomes increasingly impatient (whilst retaining some, perhaps misplaced, optimism) as the cast rehearse for the forthcoming school nativity. Numerous interruptions and bored children abound in a refreshing new slant on the traditional. |
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