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Girls' Night by Louise Roche
Best Seller 2009 Off-Broadway production extended after sell-out of initial 8-week run. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Five women with playing ages between 17 and 40. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] (including 14 songs) |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for all the songs (12 songs plus two reprises) to be sung by the characters as part of there karaoke night out. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Set largely in and around a karaoke night club, with occasional rapid flashbacks (implying figurative sets rather than realistic locations). Simple props, give or take the moped. |
| Synopsis | Sharon's daughter, Candi-Rose is getting married, and Sharon has joined her friends on a celebration night out. And the fact that Sharon has been dead for twenty years isn't going to spoil her enjoyment one little bit! Her friends laugh, cry, fight and sing in this joyous evocation of a group out to enjoy life, despite its trials and complications. |
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Give Us A Sign by Tony Domaille
Best Seller NODA South West Best Comedy nomination 2022. Octopus, Thornbury. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One (gender non-specific) character is voice-only and could be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 107 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy on a single (dining room) set. |
| Synopsis | Ken is out of work and decides he will become a clairvoyant to make money. How hard could it be? What he doesn’t reckon on is MI5, the Russians and the Americans all wanting to use his skills to contact a dead scientist who has secrets they all need. |
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| The Haunted Cabin by Matthew Lynch |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A tense ghost story in two acts and a single set. |
| Synopsis | When Emily, Joe and Danny stumble across the isolated cabin on Shantler's Peak all is not as it seems. Strange noises and sinister apparitions plague the stranded inhabitants, who desperately seek a rational explanation. Will they survive the storm until help arrives, or just become the new eternal residents of the haunted cabin?
A sinister play with a twist that will fool your audience right to the end - one of the characters is a ghost and cannot be seen or heard by any of the others. He appears to be speaking to them, when in fact he is not. |
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| A Haunted Haunting by Herb Hasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 106 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy with a single setting. |
| Synopsis | Two spirits, Mona and Edgar are bemused as to the manner of their deaths. Medium Mona uses her skills to summon up a host of oddball spirits to try to find the answer. Meanwhile a new family move into the house and many confusions ensue. |
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| Last Séance by Herb Hasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A slick farce with a single domestic set. (Nominally in the USA, but could work in any location.) Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | A family-operated séance scam is laid out before us. Attempts to conceal the swindle lead to a number of surprising twists amid frenetic action. The final startling twist of the play reveals to us - and the family - why this must be the last séance. |
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| Last Train to Sleepy Hollow by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. Variable Chorus size at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 64 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Music and song suggestions for eight pieces are provided in the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A comedy spoof play, with music, in various settings. |
| Synopsis | When Arthur is summoned by his Godmother to exorcise her house of spooks, he discovers a dastardly plot to frighten her off her valuable real estate. In the ultimate battle of innocence against the powers of darkness, Arthur destroys the black heart of the Bigwitch, finds true love, restores Spooky Hollow to his Godmother and catches the last train home! |
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| The Monster of Morgrave Manor by Louise Bramley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 101 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play on a manor house set. |
| Synopsis | McClutchy the butler is enjoying a semi-retirement in Morgrave Manor, but his peace is shattered by new arrivals. Elaine is the niece of the previous owner, and has inherited the Manor. Old secrets are about to be uncovered. |
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| Nothing Old Nothing New by Anne Graham |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A farce with a single-setting - set over two acts, though could be performed in one. Some strong language |
| Synopsis | Valerie is dead but unable to leave her house, now occupied by her son and his wife Zoe - the cause of her fury and her enforced sit-in. Her grandson arrives to find his mother making plans for his sister’s wedding. When the bride and groom and his father arrive for the weekend along with the groom’s psychic mother, scandalous revelations lead to the wedding plans being blown apart and a ruined weekend, although chaotic events lead to Valerie’s happy release. |
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| Phantomime by Jonathan Goodson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | There's one suggested song for which a piano and vocal score is provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Full length comedy play in a single set. Despite the panto content, this is a play aimed at an adult cast and audience. The characters are interesting, the situation is novel, the dialogue is snappy and fun, and the conclusion is satisfying. |
| Synopsis | A novel twist on the theme of putting on a play. Bernadette's spirit must haunt the school where she was Headmistress until they put on a performance worthy to be a tribute to the village's war dead. Now she only has ex-pupil Tiffany the janitor to help her pull together the perfect panto. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Vocal Demo and rehearsal track (piano with vocal line played on another instrument) for 'Crystal Shallows', the original song from 'Phantomime' by Jonathan Goodson.
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| Rapunzel by Philippa Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for four songs is supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. Other songs and dances may be added at the discretion of the Producer. |
| Style | Full-cast family show (an alternative to British Pantomime). |
| Synopsis | The classic tale of the long-haired lass retold with additional ghosts, dogs, magical folk and hobgoblins! |
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