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| Blackmailing Butterflies by Nigel Holloway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. Recommended 4 or more Chorus |
| Run Time | Around 140 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Scores for songs (mainly from The Beggar's Opera) are supplied with Producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | A full length comedy play with music, set in a garden and a rehearsal room. |
| Synopsis | Tensions within a theatre company arise when a couple of mid-life crises unexpectedly drag past and present emotions into the sharp focus of an ambitious young blackmailer. |
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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
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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 Brief Guide To Greek Tragedy by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. Chorus. 2 narrators and 3 'actors' who each switch between multiple characters. Chorus can be any number of people, even just 1. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short educational sketch. |
| Synopsis | Learn about ancient Greek tragedy in ten minutes, using the story of Cassandra (the prophetess whom no one believed) as demonstration. |
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| Captain Bluebeard's Monkey by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. Chorus size very flexible, at the Producer's discretion |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act piratical fantasy comedy. |
| Synopsis | The eponymous monkey uses his guile to thwart the late Captain Bluebeard's swashbuckling crew in their attempts to discover Bluebeard's treasure - which is not what it first appears to be. |
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| The Christmas Carol [Version 4] by Anthony Paul Lashley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. The number of carol singers is unspecified. The author suggests (but does not insist) that when Scrooge is reformed, he might be played by a different actor to emphesise the change! Something for productions to play with. |
| Run Time | Around 57 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Lyrics to a number of (out-of-copyright) carols are embedded in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act play with songs. Multiple locations, but indicated by lighting and furniture rather than full-stage sets. |
| Synopsis | Dickens' Christmas tale of redemption is given a little comic twist and run at a smarter pace, but still delivers the required moral lesson along with the laughs. |
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A Christmas Carol by Andrew Yates
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 43. Chorus. Flexible cast - several scenes require lots of extras, many with speaking parts. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for seven original songs are provided with the producer's copy of the script. (The script also suggests the use of the carol 'God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen') |
| Style | Adaptation of Dickens classic tale of redemption as a musical play. |
| Synopsis | On Christmas eve, miser Ebenezer Scrooge receives a visit from the ghostly apparition of his former business partner, Jacob Marley. Marley's ghost is followed by three more spectral visitors, who show visions of Scrooge's past present and future in an effort to show the old skinflint the error of his ways. |
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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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| Christmas Cat and the Pudding Pirates by Jeanette Ranger & Christopher Lillicrap |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Chorus. The chorus of additional ratlings is optional. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for the overture and 9 original songs are included with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Musical family show - not a pantomime, but containing some of the elements - musical numbers, a comedy cooking scene, over the top heroes and villains, a magical helping hand, and plenty of audience participation. Single set. |
| Synopsis | The good ship Santa Claus is sailing home with all the precious cargo needed for Christmas. When it's hijacked by the rat pirate Jolly Roger, it's up to Christmas the ship's cat, along with the ship's cook and a magical mermaid, to save the day. On the way there are excellent songs, jokes and physical comedy. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Vocal demo tracks for the 9 songs from Christmas Cat and the Pudding Pirates by Jeanette Ranger and Christopher Lillicrap.
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| Cinderella's Grumpy Turkey by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. Variable chorus size at Producer's discretion (non-speaking roles). |
| Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act rhyming panto-style play. |
| Synopsis | Wesley, a particularly Grumpy Turkey, is dispatched to Cinderella to be fattened for Christmas dinner, but Wesley is clearly not happy to be the dinner! Captain Hook, Piratical guests, and even Abanaza too, are invited to the Palace for Christmas, but the sisters - being far from elegant, are not to be suited. However, it turns out lucky for Wesley that the Genie can concoct a better recipe for success. |
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| Cinderella's Sisters... Happy Ever After? by Mark Billen |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Variable chorus size at Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 92 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A two act play (not a pantomime), for school-aged actors, with simple staging. |
| Synopsis | In this sequel to Cinderella we see how the ugly sisters fare in their attempts to emulate their sister - who is now happily married to her handsome prince. Their brother-in-law is determined to rid the kingdom of their nastiness and some visiting pirates help him to achieve his aims! |
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| A Date With Dracula by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. Chorus size at Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 57 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions for 6 songs are provided with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act musical comedy, with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | Florence is so desperate for a date that she turns to Dateze, the internet dating site, and finds she's set up with Count... sorry, Colin. Eager to meet a young woman, Colin, is also on the web. Luckily Florence's sister Tuna, takes Colin in hand, and even sorts out Florence's next date - Frankie. |
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