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Happily Ever After by Jon Boustead |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Variable Chorus size at Producer's choice. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play for Junior or Elementary School ages. |
Synopsis | Loosely based on the 'Princess and the Pea' fairytale, the story unfolds through a newsroom and outside broadcasts, as the Prince and his true Princess are united. |
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The King's Spell by Sherrill S. Cannon & Kerry E. Gallagher Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Variations on some well-known nursery songs are embedded in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Class-sized play for elementary schools, embedding mixed-up versions of well-known nursery songs. |
Synopsis | Old King Cole isn't so merry when his pipe, bowl and fiddlers don't turn up. In fact, he's so miffed that he puts a spell on all Mother Goose Land, mixing up all the characters and rhymes. Mother Goose goes to see if she can help untangle everyone. |
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Let's Be Friends by Iris Winston |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. The characters are all animals. The chorus of woodland animals could be performed live or could be puppets or silhouettes. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Simple morality play for young children about making friends despite differences. (To be performed by children, or possibly an older group playing to young children.) |
Synopsis | Sammy Skunk tries to make friends with some squirrels, but is rejected - at least until the squirrels get lost in the forest, and realise just how useful a friend like Sammy can be. |
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The Lost Horse by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for one song (which occurs four times with different lyrics) is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script |
Style | Chinese parable from the 'Huainanzi,' written in the 2nd century B.C., told as a short play for children interspersed with the verses of a song. |
Synopsis | One day Sun Wen's horse runs away, leaving the lady and her son, Sun Jun, to plow the field alone. She doesn't accept this as a misfortune, however, and soon enough the horse returns with a mate. But she's not convinced this is a blessing either... |
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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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The Magic Tree [Children's Play] by Michal Y Noah |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Chorus. The characters are trees, birds, animals and a fairy. Whilst some of these have a specific gender, this is only for the sake of pronouns and can be ignored for casting! Flexible numbers through a (speaking) chorus of birds and non-speaking animals. |
Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Rhyming play based on the author's best-selling children's book. Either for performance by a company of young kids or performed by an older group to an audience of young children. |
Synopsis | On the surface, The Magic Tree is a heart-warming story - the life of a young tree - turned into a simple fun play for young children. Beneath the surface, it encourages children to trust in themselves and their own abilities. The play demonstrates the power of positive affirmation and self-belief. |
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Migration Madness by Angela Lorenzo-Thompson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. Whilst the Monarch King is nominally male, he is, when all is said and done, a butterfly, so the gender of the actor doesn't matter much! There are 26 speaking roles, but most of the lines could be redistributed to suit the available cast. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's cope of the script comes with musical scores for 4 original songs (and one reprise). Two of the scores include percussion to be performed by the children. |
Style | Short musical play for young children. |
Synopsis | An anthropomorphic but otherwise accurate performance piece about the migration of Monarch butterflies between Mexico and the USA. |
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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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Moses in the Bullrushes by Bill Siviter |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Flexible cast, with options for multiple narrators, maidens, Egyptians, Hebrews and members of the Egyptian army. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Rhyming play for kids. No set requirements and props are optional. |
Synopsis | A fun version of the Exodus story that includes all the relevant elements and allows a fair sized (and flexible) cast to present the story in a dramatized but simple fashion. |
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The Nativity by Juliet Devon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Narrator is the only speaking part. |
Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Song suggestions for 4 songs are included with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A rhyming, short nativity, for young children (with songs). |
Synopsis | The script is written for a narrator and miming cast, telling the nativity story. |
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Noah's Ark by Bill Siviter |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. Chorus. Non-speaking parts include 'all the creatures of the earth'! |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Verse play, mainly told by narrators (with plenty of scope for a large cast to mime the actions) |
Synopsis | See the book of Genesis, chapters 6 to 9! |
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Odysseus and the Cyclops by Tony North |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Cast numbers are very flexible. The chorus is nominally the 12 great gods of Ancient Greece. The 'characters' include soldiers (nominally 3) and sheep (nominally 4) |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute play for kids in the style of Ancient Greek drama. (Appropriate for the English National Curriculum KS2 History topic Ancient Greece.) Includes the violence inherent in the story! |
Synopsis | The tale of Odysseus and the Cyclops (from Homer's Odyssey) told as a short play for children, in the style of an Ancient Greek play. |
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