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A Letter to Santa by Sue Gordon Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Two of the characters are nominally adults. It is written so that the cast can be divided into two - a school class and Santa's elves. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for 5 original songs is provided with the producer's copy of the script. |
Style | A light musical for young children. Basic sets. |
Synopsis | A school class write Christmas letters to Santa, and we discover that they are dealt with by Mrs. Santa and a bunch of fractious elves. |
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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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Lil Diamond The Snake Woman by Linda Stephenson and Alison Hudson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 37 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play-within-a-play for children. A story with a moral - and a puppet! |
Synopsis | Clem and his family have moved to California in 1886, and he’s missing his friends. He meets the strange snake woman when she rescues him from a Diamondback, but local prejudice stops him visiting her until his mother falls sick and he needs help. A puppet snake helps tell the story. |
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Little Donkey by Dominique Vaughan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 27. Minimum total without doubling = 36. Chorus. Characters include a donkey (obviously) and lots of other animals. Flexibility for more non-speaking (but singing) chorus members. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 9 songs to accompany the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Children's nativity play. |
Synopsis | A charming and refreshing retelling of the nativity story. The old donkey uses flashbacks to tell the children about his younger days and his part in the events of the very first Christmas. The nativity happenings unfold before us as all of the customary human and animal characters come to life with lots of opportunity for children of all abilities to take part. There is even the prospect of a comedy double act as the chickens get into their stride. |
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Looks Like Rain by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. The animals are puppets of unspecified kind and unspecified number (therefore requiring an unspecified number (chorus) of puppeteers. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A light-hearted re-telling of the Noah's Ark story, in about 20 minutes, freely adapted for young performers. |
Synopsis | Noah's family are shocked when the weather forecaster announces the imminent arrival of something called 'rain'. A visit from the Archangel Michael clears things up for Noah, but leaves him with the task of building an Ark - and convincing the animals to come onboard. |
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Mother Goose [Version 3] by Julie Petrucci and Chris Shinn Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 99 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 | British pantomime based on the traditional tale. |
Synopsis | Fairy Starlight is just out of fairy college and wants to reward goodness. Mother Goose is a prime candidate, so she sends her a goose that lays golden eggs. But the Demon King bets that everyone has their price and sets out, along with nasty Squire Squint, to obtain the goose. |
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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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Panto in the Stone Age by David K Bainbridge & Michael Lucas |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Nineteen songs are suggested in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full-length pantomime with various settings. |
Synopsis | It is the year 10,000 BC and the Mayoress of Sandstone Hills is celebrating her birthday. Granny Granite is baking the perfect birthday cake, but the evil Chief of Police and his two Constables have a scheme to ruin the day. When the Mayoress falls dangerously ill, Granny Granite, her son Flint and their pet dinosaur Rex must find an antidote. |
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Peter Pan - Youth Version by Rachael Ashworth |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 27. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 81 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 18 songs, including altered lyrics for one. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | An adaptation of J M Barrie's Peter Pan written to be performed by a mixed age group of young people to a family audience. |
Synopsis | Wendy, Michael and John Darling accompany Peter Pan to Neverland, 'flying' through a scene using simple ultraviolet light effects. The lost boys greet them, along with Tiger Lily and (in a twist to the original) her tribe of bickering sisters and cute little brother. A gang of pirates provide comedy and lots of topical/child friendly banter. With audience participation, this is a show which has received rave reviews and standing ovations from the audiences it has been performed to. Note that as with all adaptations of Peter Pan, we pay half the author's royalties to Great Ormond Street Hospital. |
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Rhyming Ali Baba by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | One set of song lyrics included, to the tune of 'Wild Rover'. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A simple version of 'Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves' told in rhyme, minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | Like all pantomime heroes, Ali Baba is broke. On his way to look for work, he witnesses a band of thieves hiding treasure in a secret cave. He overhears their password and helps himself to their treasure. Unfortunately, the thieves find out and track him down by hiding in storage jars. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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Rhyming Pied Piper by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. (Chorus plays rats and children) |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | The story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin told as a simple verse play. 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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