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Between the Lines by Erica Glenn
Winner of the VIP Arts Playwriting Competition, One-Act Musical Category, 2004 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. Characters include a (fairytale) wolf! The chorus (children) is optional. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Musical scores for 13 songs are included with the Producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | One-act comedy musical for kids. Minimal set requirements, simple props. |
| Synopsis | It's time for a bedtime story, but things are not as we've come to expect them... The big, bad wolf is afraid of small children and princesses take to fighting dragons to rescue sleeping princes. |
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** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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| The Big Courtroom Drama by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. Chorus. The characters are a (male) teacher and his (mixed) class of (older teenage) students. The text assumes a chorus ('the rest of the class'), but it would be possible to play the piece without them. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, set in a modern drama classroom. Props are mainly tables and chairs. |
| Synopsis | A group of drama students improvise a courtroom scene, but when the teacher becomes the accused, can they tell where the make-believe ends? |
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| The Big Freeze by Sharon Hulm |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Usual pantomime juxtapositions, plus, possibly uniquely, ninja penguins. Lots of opportunities for doubling (especially if you have flexible penguins). |
| Run Time | Around 150 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions (and some original lyrics) are provided in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Original full-length British Pantomime. |
| Synopsis | Winter has been falling down on the job for the last decade, so Lord Coldfinger concocts a cunning plan to return the Winter Queen to full power - fooling a flunky into breaking her heart, leaving her colder than ever! |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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Big Shot by Jonny Ardern
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. All characters are adults, but could be played by teenagers. Characters are Americans (of various regions), one Englishman and one Mexican-American. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano & Vocal score (17 songs, 4 instrumentals) provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. Score for Musical Director and band (piano, guitar, bass, Alto Sax, Tenor Sax) available as optional extra. |
| Style | Musical set in and around a casino. Songs in various styles including swing, ragtime, tango and jazz-funk. |
| Synopsis | Gambler Ryan Thomas brings his naive English friend Jack to a casino. Whilst discovering the perils of the Blackjack table, Jack falls for Alice, the pianist with the house band. Unfortunately, Alice is already spoken for by Louis Diaz, known as Mr. Big Shot for his reputation as a lucky gambler. Luck which Jack decides to test - with unforeseen consequences, for this is the 1950s and Las Vegas gambling is dominated by the mob... |
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** Musical Director's Score for Big Shot (showing all vocal and instrumental lines) plus separate band parts for guitar, bass, tenor sax and alto sax. (Download as .pdf file.)
** A CD of backing tracks for all 17 songs from the musical 'Big Shot'.
** A Zip file containing MP3 backing tracks for all 17 songs from the musical 'Big Shot'.
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| The Billy Goats Gruff by Sharon Stace-Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Chorus. Seven principals plus narrator and chorus. The script allows for multiple narrators, a chorus of courtiers and villagers and possibly an additional choir - thus the numbers are very flexible. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with piano and vocal scores for an overture and 14 original songs (including a couple of reprises). |
| Style | One-act musical - rhyming script plus songs - for kids (and children!). Multiple locations, but can be done with minimal scenery and very few props. |
| Synopsis | The time-honoured tale of troll meets goats given an additional twist as we learn of the history of how the troll became what he is (and the goats have more talents than just butting-in). |
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** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| Bl... Bl... Bluebeard by Mark Billen |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. All characters are adults, intended to be played by children or by a mix of adults and children. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comic dramatisation of the Bluebeard legend (owing more to Offenbach's opera than to Perrault's fairy tale). Three sets, simple props. |
| Synopsis | Duke Bluebeard lives in a grim castle and is feared by all. No one really knows what dark things happen in his castle. Having disposed of wife number five Bluebeard decides that Boulotte, the local May Queen will be his next wife, little knowing what he has let himself in for! Presenting his new wife at the court of King Bobeche and Queen Hortensia he spies their daughter Princess Marie and immediately decides that she shall be wife number seven. He orders his personal inventor, Popolani, to make the arrangements and proceeds to the palace. Challenged to a duel Bluebeard apparently kills Marie's fiancé, Prince Bruno, and demands the princess's hand in marriage. Suddenly Boulotte and Bluebeard's previous wives reappear and confront him. |
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Blood by Nettie Baskcomb Brown
Original production won the Best Youth, Best Dramatic Endeavour, Best Youth Actor awards at the Harold Joliffe One Act Play Festival, 2013 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Flexible numbers provided by a chorus of clots! |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A highly original one-act play for kids, tackling a serious subject through comedy and delivering a lot of educational material about the body's circulatory system.
[Revised 2021] |
| Synopsis | Follow Porphy and Alpha, two young blood cells, who have to learn to deal with all that the human body throws at them. With the help of their family of red blood cells, a team of platelets known as the Clots and two pugilistic white cells, Luke and O'Cyte, these youngsters experience fry ups, a gym workout, a night on the town resulting in traumatic injury and a holiday in the sun! |
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| Blue Ridge Cinders by Hilary Mackelden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. This is a British pantomime, which means the assignment of roles to genders is pretty flexible. |
| Run Time | Around 145 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 12 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | An innovative full length pantomime based on the Cinderella story. (Not quite the Wild West, but heading in that direction.) |
| Synopsis | This new look at Cinderella sets the story in the town of Golden, Virginia, USA, with all the usual panto characters, including ugly sisters and fairy godmother - plus a bear and FBI agents. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Boadicea - The Pantomime by Giles Black |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 126 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 9 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length (ancient) British pantomime. |
| Synopsis | Queen Boadicea is deprived of her kingdom by the evil Roman Emperor Nero, who demands extortionate taxes in order to fund his new theatre. When her Iceni tribe try to resist, Boadicea's daughters Voira and Denua end up locked in Nero's dungeon. Boadicea gathers an assortment of heroes and less than helpful historical characters to save the day. |
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| The Bourbons and Other Crackers by Sue Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 38. No chorus. Characters are mainly adults, intended to be played by children. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A rolling series of humorous sketches - no specific set requirements, simple props (give or take Bonny Prince Charlie's boat). |
| Synopsis | A complete history of monarchy, in entirely the wrong order and with all the boring bits left out. King Alfred does a turn as a TV chef, Mary Queen of Scots does porridge, Elizabeth goes shopping, Henry V takes a holiday, Tutenkhamen gets a visit from the architects and Ethelred never quite makes it. |
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