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| Did The Butler Do It? by Debbie Chalmers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 14. Minimum total with doubling = 32. Minimum total without doubling = 32. Chorus. Extra chorus members can be added. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions for 13 songs are provided with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A comedy (with songs) for children, in simple settings. |
| Synopsis | Lady Jemima Fitzwilliam's valuable pearls have been stolen! This looks like a job for aged amateur sleuth Mrs Clues, but does Jeeves the butler know something important which can shed light on the subject? |
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| Dog in the Manger by Raymond Blakesley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. Characters include a dog, a camel, a donkey, three stars and a flock of sheep! |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Lyrics to simple songs (to well-known children's tunes) are included in the script. Additional (optional) carols are suggested. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Simple Nativity play for young children, told from the point of view of the animals! (No set or prop requirements.) |
| Synopsis | A dog, a camel a donkey and a star are all complaining about their lot in life, but they have important roles to play in Bethlehem. |
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| The Easter Egg Hunt by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. Characters include nine fowl and an Easter bunny (offering plenty of opportunity for mask- or costume-making!) Beyond that, the cast is very flexible (basically written for a class-sized group). |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] (Assuming the suggested songs are used) |
| Music | Suggestions for critter-themed songs are made in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Comedy play for young children, with corny jokes and opportunities for songs and dances. |
| Synopsis | The Easter Bunny (or Funny Bunny) tries to help out poor Clumsy Chicken who has smashed all her eggs in a nasty fall and is facing the chop... well, the roasting dish. Other feathered friends flock around to help or hinder the effort with a few jokes and songs. |
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| The Easter Story by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 32. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script suggests the use of a couple of familiar hymns/songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Simple version of the Easter story as a play for children. Multiple locations (following the story!) but no specific set requirments. |
| Synopsis | A classroom/church group rendition of the Easter Story from the arrival in Jerusalem to Mary's encounter with Jesus outside the tomb. |
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| Face2Face by Helen Spencer |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 15. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 30. Minimum total without doubling = 60. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 58 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 6 optional songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A play for schools (ideal for Key Stage 2 or 3) with music, dance and a simple set. |
| Synopsis | Sam is a delightful child - happy, smiley and kind to others. Well, at least that’s the impression she gives to adults. When her parents aren’t looking, or the teachers’ backs are turned, Sam reveals her true personality. |
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| The Fiery Bride by E. C. Chapman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 67 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Traditional carols, to be sung or played from a recording between scenes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A ghost story for Christmas, interspersed with traditional carols. (Structurally in two acts, but with a duration on the boundary between one-act and full-length.) |
| Synopsis | This dramatisation of a classic Dorset ghost story evokes life in rural Dorset and the clash between aristocrats and servants at the turn of the 18th Century. |
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| Green For Ever and Longer by Raymond Blakesley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. Whilst some of the characters have specific genders (queen bee, for example), since they are insects and microbes, the gender of the actors is no crucial! Flexible chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for children. Single, minimal set, few props. |
| Synopsis | As Queen Bee Honey and her Minibeast subjects celebrate in memory of Sir Turnham Green, who saved their wood from developers, two strangers arrive. They have a strange request, but unknown to everyone they've also brought danger into the woods. |
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| Hamelin Rats - The Musical by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. Flexibility for choruses of children, rats and cats. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for six original songs (plus the piper's tune) supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | Short one-act musical for kids. The story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin told as a simple verse play with six songs. Minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Rats are taking over the rich town of Hamelin, so when an eccentrically dressed stranger offers to drive them away, the Mayor offers to heap him with gold. However, when the rats have disappeared, so has the Mayor's promise, till the stranger reminds the town of his musical prowess. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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| I'll See You In My Dreams by Michal Y Noah, songs by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Very flexible casting, with songs (and associated actions) performed by members of a chorus. (In the original book, Hoppy was a rabbit - hence the name. That is assumed to be the case, though it need not be!) |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano & Vocal scores for 4 songs by Stuart Ardern are supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Short musical play for young children with flexible casting and minimal staging requirements. (Derived from Michal Y Noah's book of the same name, conceptualized by Loren Noah.) |
| Synopsis | Hoppy doesn't want to go to bed because she's afraid that she'll have nightmares. Her mother makes Hoppy's dreams something to look forward to. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
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| In the Lap of the Gods by Philip Bird (music Isabelle Michalakis) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. The characters are a class of schoolchildren, divided into four groups. Each group acts out Greek myths. Whilst some of the characters in the myths have a specific gender, this need not be the gender of the actor. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with scores for three original songs. Further dances can be added at the discretion of the production. |
| Style | One-act musical play for a full class of children, providing roles for all and an introduction to several Greek myths. |
| Synopsis | A group of children are shipwrecked on an island, and all they can find is a strange chest with a very odd collection of contents. The items inside help the children tell some old stories and keep up their spirits through the night until they are rescued the next day. |
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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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