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| And A Happy New Year! by Gwen Stevens |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 113 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy with a split set - lounge, bedroom and hallway. |
| Synopsis | Susan and Nigel bring the children to her parents' home for Christmas. Little do they know how disastrous their stay will be. Mother is ill in bed and her Father is suffering with Alzheimer's. Then the heating won't work, the telephone is dead, and they are snowed in - leaving them stranded... |
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| Angel of Happiness by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 68 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A two-act comedy, liberally adapted from Moliere’s ‘Tartuffe’. |
| Synopsis | When Oliver had a nervous breakdown, Angelo was there to help him. But now that he’s Oliver’s guru, does Angelo really have Oliver’s best interests at heart? Why’s he trying to seduce Oliver’s wife, and break up his daughter’s romance? |
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| Animal Farm by George Orwell adapted by Kieron Toner |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 27. Minimum total without doubling = 32. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Large-cast full-length play in a single set. |
| Synopsis | Orwell's classic allegorical tale of the animals taking control of their farm is retold for the stage, keeping much of the original text and storylines. |
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| Anthony And Cleopatra The Pantomime by Giles Black |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 32. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 11 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British pantomime (set in ancient Egypt). |
| Synopsis | We are whisked back in time to ancient Egypt where Cleopatra's rightful place on the throne has been usurped by her two naughty little brothers, Ptolemy The Absolutely Tiny and Ptolemy The Even Younger. Her hilarious strategies, aided and abetted by her old nurse Dame Fatima Fattypuss, include using the latest Ancient Egyptian precursor to the internet to find a hero. Into the fray comes Mark Anthony, a hero capable of vanquishing her enemies, crowning her the true queen of Egypt and hopefully providing some romance along the way. A mad chase through ancient Egypt ensues in a version of the legendary lovers previously unknown to history. Oh and is that really how you build a pyramid? |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Any Colour But Red by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Fourteen on-stage characters (including a detective written male, but playable by either gender) and an offstage female voice. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] The original production took 50 minutes. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy whodunnit with adult themes. Two almost identical kitchen sets! |
| Synopsis | When Jim and Jani hold an Open Morning to sell their house, a mix-up in arrangements sends them some extremely unusual prospective buyers, some with bizarre expectations. Twenty-four hours later, the house has become a crime scene and the police need the help of the neighbours, Fred and Molly. |
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| Arawen's Dragon by Martin Hailey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song or music suggestions provided with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length pantomime with an original storyline. |
| Synopsis | Everyone thinks that the unseasonably cold weather is odd, but they don’t suspect it's a wicked spell until Arawen, the Baron's daughter, is given a magical dragon as a birthday present. Cuthbert breaks the spell and restores the sunshine, but becomes the witch's new target... |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Richard Cowling
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 54. Chorus. In order to be faithful to Jules Verne, most of the characters are written male. How you cast them is up to you! (For example, whilst it was not so in Fogg's day, the Reform Club is now open to women!) |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal score for seventeen songs and nineteen pieces of incidental music is provided with the producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | Full-length school musical based on Jules Verne's novel. By the nature of the story, there are a lot of locations, but these can be presented in as simple or complex a way as you please. |
| Synopsis | Phileas Fogg accepts a wager to travel around the World in Eighty days. Armed with only Passepartout (his trusty French manservant) and pursued by a detective, he sets out, venturing via Egypt, India (where he acquires a princess!), Japan and the USA. |
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** Conductor's score and band parts (Clarinet/Alto Sax/Tenor Sax, Trumpet, Trombone, Bass, and Keyboard) for 'Around the World in Eighty Days' by Richard Cowling
** Midi Files for the 36 songs and instrumentals from Around the World in Eighty Days by Richard Cowling. The files contain the band arrangements plus vocal lines.
** CD of Backing Tracks for the 36 songs and musical pieces from Around the World in Eighty Days by Richard Cowling. (The tracks are the orchestrated instrumentals, with additional instruments playing the vocal lines.)
** CD of Vocal recordings of all the songs from Around the World in Eighty Days by Richard Cowling. (Vocals by Richard Cowling and Leanne Cooper.)
** Zip folder of MP3 Backing Tracks for the 36 songs and musical pieces from Around the World in Eighty Days by Richard Cowling. (The tracks are the orchestrated instrumentals, with additional instruments playing the vocal lines.)
** Zip folder of MP3 Vocal recordings of all the songs from Around the World in Eighty Days by Richard Cowling. (Vocals by Richard Cowling and Leanne Cooper.)
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| Art for Art's Sake by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] A slick production could be completed in under 2 hours. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length colourful farce, centering on a wedding and a work of art! |
| Synopsis | As art dealer David Gibson prepares for the wedding of his daughter Samantha, he finds himself in a position to make a financial killing by arranging the sale of a valuable French Impressionist painting. Unfortunately the prospective buyer from Los Angeles, Mrs Delores Van Zuyl, insists on the work being authenticated by an expert. When the expert doesn't turn up David turns to his less than reliable step-brother to fill the gap. What David doesn't know is that Mrs Van Zuyl has her own agenda and it has little to do with French Impressionism. |
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| Arthur, Boy-King Of Britain by Andrew Beattie |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 18. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 32. No chorus. All parts written as M, but could be adapted if insufficient M cast available. |
| Run Time | Around 73 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play for children, with various (simple) settings. |
| Synopsis | A good dramatisation of the story of the boy Arthur, his links with Merlin, and the legend of the Sword in the Stone. The story and characters are well-drawn, from Arthurian legend. |
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| As The Clock Struck Ten by Tony Frier |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Opportunity for different actors to portray the different ages of each character. Script length can be cut to 52 minutes for the purpose of drama festival entry, by cutting Scene 5. |
| Run Time | Around 58 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Intermission music suggestions. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A powerful drama based on a true story. Various settings and time periods. |
| Synopsis | A dramatisation of the true story of Donnie Merrett, who at the age of 17, shot his mother after she found out he had been forging cheques in her name. On release from prison in 1945, he joined the Royal Navy Reserve in Germany before returning to a life of crime and debauchery, eventually fleeing before he can be court martialled. Returning to London to the old folks home run by his wife and mother-in-law, he demands money to continue funding his habits. |
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