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| Androcles et Leo by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 23. Chorus. Most of the characters are written male (even the lion), for reasons of historical verisimilitude. Don't let that put you off. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama (played for comedy) in which the protagonists speak Latin and the narrators, where necessary, translate. |
| Synopsis | The optimistic story of the slip-away slave meeting the limping lion - with a side-order of the private life of Emperor Claudius. |
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| Animal Fables by Debbie Chalmers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. All characters can be played by either M or F. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A collection of four short plays for young children with various simple settings. For performance as a whole or as individual plays. |
| Synopsis | Aesop's fables are brought to life, giving young children acting as well as costume and prop-making opportunities, along with learning the morals of the fables. |
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| Anna of Nazareth by Sue Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal score for 16 songs supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | One-act musical for performance by teenagers, young adults or a mixture of adults and teenagers. No specific set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Christmas musical telling the story of Mary from her betrothal to Joseph up to the birth of Jesus (roughly Matthew 1, 18-25, Luke 1, 26-38 and Luke 2, 1-7). Told from the point of view of a teenage girl, Anna, a jealous friend of Mary. It brings out the difficulty of Mary's situation within her community, but the resolution is joyous and uplifting. |
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** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
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| Around the World in Eighty Days by Richard Cowling |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 54. Chorus. In order to be faithful to Jules Verne, most of the characters are written male. How you cast them is up to you! (For example, whilst it was not so in Fogg's day, the Reform Club is now open to women!) |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal score for seventeen songs and nineteen pieces of incidental music is provided with the producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | Full-length school musical based on Jules Verne's novel. By the nature of the story, there are a lot of locations, but these can be presented in as simple or complex a way as you please. |
| Synopsis | Phileas Fogg accepts a wager to travel around the World in Eighty days. Armed with only Passepartout (his trusty French manservant) and pursued by a detective, he sets out, venturing via Egypt, India (where he acquires a princess!), Japan and the USA. |
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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
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
** Conductor's score and band parts (Clarinet/Alto Sax/Tenor Sax, Trumpet, Trombone, Bass, and Keyboard) for 'Around the World in Eighty Days' by Richard Cowling
** Midi Files for the 36 songs and instrumentals from Around the World in Eighty Days by Richard Cowling. The files contain the band arrangements plus vocal lines.
** Backing Tracks for the 36 songs and musical pieces from Around the World in Eighty Days by Richard Cowling. (The tracks are the orchestrated instrumentals, with additional instruments playing the vocal lines.)
** Vocal recordings of all the songs from Around the World in Eighty Days by Richard Cowling. (Vocals by Richard Cowling and Leanne Cooper.)
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Babes in the Wood [Short Version] by Geoff Bamber
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 22. Chorus. The chorus (Captain Sprague's crew) is optional. There are nominally four police constables, but these could be increased or decreased in number. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | There are opportunities for songs and dances, but no specific songs suggested in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act comedy (somewhere near an English pantomime, but not exactly that!) for kids. Nominally 5 locations, but no set requirements, so could be performed without set changes. |
| Synopsis | When prosperous businessman Edwin Merryweather is mysteriously lost at sea together with his wife, Constance, their two children, Lizzie and Tizzy, are placed in the care of their Aunt Lydia and her new husband, Lemuel Viper.
Viper has his sights set on the Merryweather fortune but he cannot get his hands on that while Lizzie and Tizzy are alive. He hatches a plot to have the girls done to death in Spooky Wood but the ineptitude of the hired killers, the interference of a posse of belligerent elves and the appearance a rather sinister old lady ensure that his plans do not run smoothly. |
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| Be Careful What You Wish For by Jon Boustead |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 22. Chorus. The author suggests (but does not insist) that the Chorus consists of five or more actors. In addition to their occasional speaking and animated roles, the chorus perform physical theatre, becoming parts of the set and props. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act fantasy play for children with various simple settings. Drama and opportunities for physical theatre. |
| Synopsis | A group of children visit a strange castle and are taken on a salutary journey by the castle keepers on which the children's wishes are fulfilled. The children learn the importance of being careful what they wish for. |
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| Beauty and The Beast [Short Version] by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. The chorus is optional - playing dockworkers and possibly used to perform musical numbers (not included in the script). |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy for kids. Several settings but intended to be performed with minimal scenery. |
| Synopsis | Joshua Harcourt faces financial ruin. With a wife, three daughters and a house in the country to support, the outlook is bleak. A chance encounter with a rich and handsome prince looking, as handsome princes do, for true love, provides him with a chance of salvation. All that is needed is for Joshua's youngest and sweetest daughter, Belle, to fall for the prince. Unfortunately this prince has fallen foul of a witch who has turned him into a hideous beast. Can Belle's sweet disposition persuade her to ignore the prince's appearance and can the prince be restored to his former handsome self? As it all ends, as tradition demands, happily ever after, then the answer to both questions must be 'yes'. |
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| Benny Manhattan And The Caponi Diamond by Carol Hill |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 30. Minimum total without doubling = 36. Chorus. Variable chorus size as desired by the Producer. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Music suggestions for nine optional pieces are included with the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A gangster farce in two acts, suitable for youth performers, with various settings. |
| Synopsis | The bumbling Manhattan gang, led by Benny Manhattan, get themselves embroiled in double crossings with the Caponi family. A bank robbery runs into difficulties when the Caponi diamond is inadvertently, or perhaps deliberately, included in the Manhattan's haul. |
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| The Best in the Book by Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 29. Chorus. Chorus includes unspecified numbers of (talking) sheep and camels |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script includes sheet music for three original songs. A number of traditional carols are also suggested in the script. |
| Style | Irreverend, humorous nativity play. Simple sets. |
| Synopsis | A humorous nativity story, with pantomime camels, talkative sheep, Queens as well as kings and lots of angels. The shepherds really don't like their job and spend the cold winter's night in drinking too much! They are very alarmed when angels appear. Meanwhile, one of the kings' camels develops a puncture... |
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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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