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Hook and Peter Pan - How it all began by Giles Scott, Helen Dooley and Bob Walsh Cape Times Awards for Amateur Theatre, "Best Musical" 2003 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 35. Chorus. This is not a panto, but it would be possible for Peter Pan and some or all of the lost boys to be played by girls. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano and vocal scores for Overture and 15 songs by Helen Dooley and Bob Walsh are supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | Full-length musical which could be played by a youth company, by adults or by a mixture. The production notes include extensive explanations of how to fly! |
Synopsis | Everyone knows the story of Peter Pan. But how did the Boy Who Never Grew Up learn to fly? How did Hook lose his hand? How did the croc swallow the clock? This enchanting musical provides the answers! |
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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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Hotel Casablanca by S. J. Edwards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 29 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | One song Is suggested in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | One-act comedy on 4 minimal sets, suitable for youth theatre. |
Synopsis | The Hotel Casablanca is unfortunately short on staff, just as Lady Chalfont arrives, trying to protect her necklace from a jewel thief. But will the thief be spotted in amongst the James Bond conventioneers and detective Sam Shovel? |
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The Hound Of The Baskervilles by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. The hound might be live or a special effect. (One other essential role takes no part in the action, but definitely needs to be there!) |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act rhyming humorous play, freely interpreting the original story. |
Synopsis | A 'Pantocrime' in rhyming couplets, re-telling the story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, with comedy. |
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An Hour You Won't Get Back by tlc Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 41. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Collection of comedy sketches. |
Synopsis | Nineteen sketches, each running between 1 and 5 minutes. No particular theme other than a desire to make the audience laugh! |
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How Did That Get In My Locker? by Andrew M. Frodahl |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 63 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act school play - chiefly American in theme and content, though could be adapted for other audiences. |
Synopsis | When prom queen Emily goes missing and her bra turns up in Dullon Bland’s locker, only teen PI Ithaca Shue can help him. |
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Howard Does His Best by Geoff Parker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. The 10 'soldiers' are gender non-specific. |
Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy suitable for performance by teens and chldren. |
Synopsis | At the school dance, Howard, egged on by Wayne and Dave, sets out to cross the dance floor to ask Chardonnay (the most beautiful girl in the school) for a dance, but on the way various bits of his body begin to let him down. |
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Humbug by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol presented as a short comedic play for kids. |
Synopsis | When Jacob Marley dies he keeps his promise to come back and haunt his mean-spirited business partner, Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge has a particularly parsimonious attitude to Christmas and this reflects itself his treatment of his long-suffering employees, Bob and Molly Cratchit. In case Jacob's efforts to get Ebenezer to change his ways don't meet with success, he enlists the help of three ghostly friends. Will Christmas still be humbug or will Ebenezer see the light? |
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The Iceberg by Dawn Cairns |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. One male and one female character are voice-only so can be pre-recorded. |
Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Three tracks, to be played but not performed by cast, are suggested in the producer's copyof the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one-act comedy with a single (doctors’ waiting room) setting. |
Synopsis | Doctors’ receptionist Paula believes all patients are time-wasters and is known as ‘The Iceberg’. She resents the arrival of new manager Michelle, who intends to implement a patient-friendly regime, and trainee receptionist Debbie. But Debbie and Paula soon hit it off and Michelle’s plans are thwarted. |
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An Indecent Exposure by David Pemberton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy drama - in which the cast remain clothed. |
Synopsis | A couple are keeping the park opposite their flat under surveillance in an attempt to gather evidence on the person who's been exposing themselves. But are they really playing tricks on one another? |
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Inspector Snow and the Elf-Inflicted Wounds by Skip Chalker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act Christmas story for children with various simple settings. US English. |
Synopsis | Inspector Snow and Sergeant Merryman are back on the case, hunting the killer of not one, but two Mall Santas. Before the killer can strike for a superstitiously crucial third time, Snow and Merryman must catch them! |
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