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The Storm Clouds Gather and The Evacuees by Roger Hurn |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 35. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An educational piece ideal for school assemblies, with no set required. |
Synopsis | This assembly, designed to support work on Britain since 1930, concentrates on some of the events that occurred on the home front at the time of the Second World War. It has been divided into two parts. The first, The Storm Clouds Gather can be used to set the scene for the following section, The Evacuees. Both scenes are prefaced and linked with narration. There are 35 speaking parts including narration. |
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A to Z The Universe In Me by Michal Y Noah |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 27. No chorus. Variable number of characters may double at the Producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short rhyming piece for young children, with no set requirements. Based on the author's best-selling award-winning children's book of the same name. |
Synopsis | A piece to encourage children to vocalise positive attributes - using the whole alphabet! |
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Toys in Pieces - The T I P by Philip Bird (music Isabelle Michalakis) Performance by Potteries Theatre Co. won the 'Originality and Imagination Award' at the Stoke-on-Trent Festival, 2010. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. Whilst there are twenty-five speaking roles, it would be possible to add additional toys and, particularly, rats. (Oh, and while we're at it, the characters include a seagull.) |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano and vocal scores for three original songs (by Isabelle Michalakis) are supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
Style | Music play for performance by youngish children. |
Synopsis | A daring group of toys set off on a mission to rescue a damaged toy from the Tip. They must race against the sunrise and a pack of hungry rats to succeed. |
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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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Treasure Island [Version 5] by Lou Treleaven |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | 11 songs to be performed, and 1 to be danced to but not sung, are suggested in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Full-length British pantomime based on the Robert Louis Stevenson novel. Can be produced on minimal or more elaborate sets. |
Synopsis | The traditional tale of pirates and lost treasure, given a fresh spin for presentation as a panto, with new twists on old characters. |
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The Very Busy Stable by Juliet Devon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Narrator role could be split amongst several narrators. There are optional choruses of stars, angels and animals. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] The timing assumes the use of four songs. |
Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for four songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Short rhyming nativity play (with options for including songs). Principally told by the narrator, with lines for the other participants. |
Synopsis | The nativity story told very simply as just the stable scene with visitors. |
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The Vikings by Andrew Yates Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 43 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Two origninal musical scores supplied with the producer's copy of the script, plus new lyrics to 4 familiar melodies. |
Style | A one act musical play for schools. |
Synopsis | An educational and musical play that dispels a few myths about Vikings, while providing some real insight into their history and daily lives, as well as their effect on Britain. |
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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 ** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files ** Backing tracks plus backing tracks with lead melody line for 5 of the 6 suggested songs from The Vikings by Andrew Yates. (The 6th song is a pop song for which a Karaoke track would suit better than Andrew's arrangements!) ** Vocal Demo tracks for the 5 songs from The Vikings by Andrew Yates ** Vocal Demo tracks for the 5 songs from The Vikings by Andrew Yates ** Zip file of backing tracks plus backing tracks with lead melody line for 5 of the 6 suggested songs from The Vikings by Andrew Yates. (The 6th song is a pop song for which a Karaoke track would suit better than Andrew's arrangements!)
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Waterspout Hero by Raymond Blakesley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. In the USA, 'Incey Wincey Spider' is known as 'Itsy Bitsy Spider'. Somebody may know the reason for this linguistic divergence, but we certainly don't. The choruses (flowers and raindrops) are optional. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One act comedy play for kids. Single set. (And aside from the set, only one prop, and that's a piece of paper.) |
Synopsis | The Incey Wincey Spider is about to attempt climbing the waterspout, and his scheming wife Minki Minki has tricked a fly into helping him - if only by being a snack! Only Big Drip and the Raindrops stand in Incey's way. Meanwhile, the weeds and flowers argue and the sun has a few questions for a knowledgeable bookworm. It's amazing what you learn living on a compost heap. |
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We Have Character by Sherrill S. Cannon & Kerry E. Gallagher |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. A narrator and (up to) 25 children. Since all the children's roles could be doubled, in theory it could be done by a cast of two, but in practice it is intended as a full-class piece. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] With songs, which may vary the length of performance. |
Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for up to eight songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | One-act performance piece for young children. |
Synopsis | A rhyming exploration of well-known children's books, with simple parables drawn from the characters. |
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What a Tangled Web We Weave by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short rhyming comedy play (with a moral) for children. Single (Town Square) setting. |
Synopsis | Once upon a nursery crime - the cautionary tale of Incey Wincey Spider who enjoyed scaring people, until the day the tables were turned... (The nursery rhyme character Incey Wincey Spider is, in the USA, called Itsy Bitsy Spider. The logic of this defeats the best minds.) |
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The Wonderful World of the Weather by Sherrill S. Cannon & Kerry E. Gallagher |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 40. No chorus. Lots of characters, but with just a few lines each, so lots of doubling possible. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 7 songs and three musical interludes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Rhyming play for young children. No set or props needed. The text displayed on-line is in British English, but there is also an edition in US English (US spellings and 'Fall' instead of 'Autumn'). |
Synopsis | A whirlwind tour of the weather and seasons. |
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