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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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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 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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A New You by Wesley A. Knoch |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano and Vocal sheet music for nine original songs is provided with the Producer's Copy of the script |
Style | One act musical comedy play - set in the studio of a TV make-over show complete with cheesy presenters and sponsorship jingles. |
Synopsis | A Nasally over-blessed heroine (Miss Nodda Tragtiff) takes part in a reality Makeover show, only to find that the New You promised has caused her to lose her old friends and only gained her fleeting popularity with new people. She comes to understand that real beauty comes from within, and true friends aren't swayed by appearance. |
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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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Noah, Yes Noah! by Richard Cowling |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 40. Chorus. Very flexible cast, with solo roles and (potentially) a very large chorus, described as the people of earth and dancing pairs of animals. (There is even a non-speaking cameo for God.) |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy comes with a piano and vocal score for the 19 songs and instrumentals. (There is a conductors score and band parts as an optional extra.) |
Style | Lively, expressive, epic musical with some light humour. Designed to not rely heavily on props or set. |
Synopsis | Noah receives a message from God that the earth will be washed away. With his wife, his three sons and their respective wives, all of them ignoring the sneers of the ignorant townsfolk, he begins crafting an ark to bear them and the animals of the world to safety. |
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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 ** CD of the orchestrated version of Noah, Yes Noah! by Richard Cowling. (Note that this is backing music, the tracks are purely instrumental and do not necessarily have a prominent instrument playing the vocal parts) ** Conductor's score and band parts - Flute, Clarinet, Alto Sax and Tenor Sax (for two reed players), Trumpet, Trombone, Bass, and Keyboard - for 'Noah, Yes Noah' by Richard Cowling.
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Oedipus - Swollen Foot by Graham Milton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play for schools - ideal as a classroom or assembly piece. |
Synopsis | A light-hearted, accessible take on the Greek myth. Oedipus gradually discovers he has killed his father and married his mother. He learns how one cannot avoid fate, however hard one tries, and that great fortune is often followed by great misfortune. |
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The Olympian Myths by Tony North |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute, large cast play for schools in the style of Ancient Greek drama. (Appropriate for the English National Curriculum KS2 History topic Ancient Greece.) |
Synopsis | A brief introduction to some of the gods of Greek legend |
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Olympic Games 2012 [Single Class Version] by Sue Russell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 34. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for fourteen songs. (Others could be substituted at the discretion of the production team.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Educational and entertaining piece for kids. Intended for performance by a school class. |
Synopsis | An intruduction to all the sports that will be on display at the 2012 Olympics. |
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Olympic Ode - Faster, Higher, Stronger by Sue Russell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Designed with flexibility in mind, with the possibility of up to 24 idividuals (representing athletes of various sorts) taking a verse each, plus one or more speakers taking the chorus parts. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Performance poem for a class of children. No props or staging requirmeents |
Synopsis | The motto of the Olympic Games, Citius, Altius, Fortius - Faster, Higher, Stronger - explored in verse, with the performers representing different groups of athletes. |
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