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Looking for the Rainbow by Philip Bird (music Isabelle Michalakis) |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 13. Minimum Female roles = 14. Minimum total with doubling = 27. Minimum total without doubling = 27. No chorus. More children can be added at the producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 46 minutes. [Estimated!] Dance music, which is not provided, is at the Producer's discretion. |
Music | Full scores for the 3 songs are included with the Producer's copy of the script. Dance music, not provided, is at the Producer's discretion. |
Style | A play with music and dance for children, set on an open stage. |
Synopsis | A fantastical adventure in which two groups of children living on opposite sides of the mountain manage, despite their differing cultures, to join together to find their rainbow. |
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Lord of the Mince Pies by Ashley Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. The pupils of St Hippocampus' School are written male, but really could be any combination. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Three Christmas Carols are suggested during the course of the show. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Comedy melodrama for kids - with a gruesome flavour! Alternates between full-stage sets and front-of-curtain scenes. Simple props. |
Synopsis | An outbreak of Tebbit's Disease (which turns teachers insane and mean) coincides with a heavy fall of snow, cutting off St Hippocampus' school (from the village of Chipping King Edwards). The teachers' nerves are at breaking point, supplies are low and now the roads are cut off by snow! What will the teachers do for food? (If you need a clue, it is likely that the teachers are familiar with Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal'...) |
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Love Me Tender by Roger Woodcock |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Four Elvis Presley songs are suggested, to be sung by character within the play. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one-act drama with a mix of comedy and pathos. A single kitchen setting. |
Synopsis | In an economic downturn, a fish and chip shop owner and his wife can't decide whether to stay open or move to Spain, while their part-time potato peeler Billy happily sings Elvis songs and dreams of what's under Olga Pike's duffle coat. A tragedy will turn all their lives upside down. |
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Lucky Balls by Louise Roche |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. The chorus is optional (bar staff and band members). The script includes an on-stage band. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Suggested songs (titles only) are embedded in the script. These are intended to be played by the on-stage band. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Full-length comedy play. Single set (with various locations within a wedding reception indicated by lighting and set dressing). Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Nine wedding guests are the victims of a really bad seating plan. They try to get along, then one suggests they chip in to buy a lottery ticket. When they win all their masks slip away to reveal who they really are. The poor maitre d' tries to keep the reception on track but in the end he can only watch as relationships unravel. |
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Maid in China by Philippa Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Characters include the Emperor's pet dragon and the occasional panda. The chorus is optional. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for the proglogue song is provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. Other songs may be added at the discretion of the production team. |
Style | Full-length comedy play for children (or a mixed company of adults and kids) based on the Willow Pattern story. |
Synopsis | Henry Hopper is not the least bit interested in China plates and their history. But when a cursed plate in a museum transports him to ancient China, he soon finds himself caught up in the mystery of two missing bluebirds, a pair of secret lovers, and the role they play in the Willow Pattern... |
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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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Making Theatre History by tlc Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The characters are all amateur actors, darling. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Lyrics (set to snatches of songs from musicals) are included in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Short one-act comedy (with snatches of song). Simple village hall committee-room set. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | It is decision time for the Amdram society committee. The next show must be chosen tonight and after months of arguments and division, the task of making that choice has been handed to the chair, Richard, to make. But Richard's announcement is not quite what everyone was expecting... |
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Maria's Mask by Andrew Weaver |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 27. Minimum total without doubling = 47. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's copy of the script has suggestions for nine songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Play (with suggested songs) for kids. A haunting, lyrical love story overlaid with knock-about comedy. |
Synopsis | A century ago, the famous dancer Maria was given a golden mask as a love token by a visiting prince, but it vanished and he believed she stole it. Now her ghost haunts the theatre where she used to dance, and the mask has returned in time to save or wreck a new show... |
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Market Forces by Bill Tordoff |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 12. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The script includes lyrics to two songs (and one reprise) set to popular melodies. The producer's copy of the script comes with sheet music for the two songs. |
Style | One-act play (with music) for kids. Good against evil. That sort of thing. |
Synopsis | With no Lord of the Manor to repair the Market Hall, it's under threat of redevelopment by the wicked Swilco Supermarket, who's got the townspeople bedazzled through the use of O-Bey-Me gas. Can Marshy and Daisy save the 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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May The Farce Be With You by Andrew Yates |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. The comedy cow is assumed to be two actors. |
Run Time | Around 99 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Three songs are suggested - with altered words, described in the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full length pantomime, with a small sprinkle of songs and straightforward sets. |
Synopsis | Space superhero Luke Warmwater must thwart the plans of the evil Garth Invader thereby saving the galaxy from destruction. With his two female robots, STROP and PMT, he is forced to seek refuge from the evil Garth Invader in Jack's beanstalk - which is so large it is visible from outer space. Unfortunately the beanstalk is also inhabited by a bloodthirsty giant. |
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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 ** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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A Midsummer Night's Dream [Modern English] by Sue Russell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. It would be possible, by adding attendants and fairies, to increase the cast to around 30. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script contains suggestions for four pieces of music. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Shakespeare abridged and (mainly) in modern English. No formal set requirements. |
Synopsis | A shortened version of the Shakespeare original, containing nuggets of the original text with modern insertions. Shakespeare's son Hamnet holds the whole thing together as if managing a production of the play. |
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