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Hood by Geoff Bamber Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] Plus additional time for songs and dances. |
Music | Production notes list recommended songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Not a true British Pantomime (lacks, for example, the ritual audience participation and pantomime dame), but contains many of the ingredients - plenty of jokes and extravagant characters. |
Synopsis | The Sheriff of Nottingham has taken over Loxley Manor and plans to marry Marian. Prince John is coming to the wedding, together with his personal assistant and a passing bishop. Robin Hood assembles his Merry Men but with unexpected plans. |
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The Horrible Hot Air Homicide by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Melodrama stereotypes - the wicked squire, the poor-but-hones heroine, etc. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | One song (to a G&S tune). Sheet music for the song is supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
Style | Melodrama set in Victorian times, but written in the 21st century - so something of a send-up of the format. |
Synopsis | 'The Horrible Hot Air Homicide' - or 'Fanny's Free For All' sees the wicked squire in pursuit of the poor heroine, Fanny. However, in fear that his past misdeeds will be exposed, the squire frames his rival for murder, then furnishes a fiendish fate for Fanny. |
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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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How Idol We've Become by Christine Harvey and Anna Kidd |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | It's a talent show, so the contestants perform brief musical pieces (which are left entirely to the discretion of the production). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Comedy for kids, based around a TV talent show. Single set (the show studio). |
Synopsis | Comic take on TV talent shows in which the cruel judges get their comeuppance through an unexpected twist. |
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I Love You When It's Raining, Roy G Biv by Martin R. Collin |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. The chorus covers a school class, a choir and a funeral congregation, so very flexible numbers! The structure of the story implies a mixture of adults and children, but of course it could be performed by a youth company. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | A couple of public domain songs are suggested for use in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | One-act play with various simple settings. |
Synopsis | Roy is that inspirational teacher everyone remembers. He arrives at a small school in Ohio and immediately makes a mark on every pupil he comes into contact with. His death is sudden and unexpected but his spirit lives on as his pupils move into adulthood. |
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In the Lap of the Gods by Philip Bird (music Isabelle Michalakis) |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. The characters are a class of schoolchildren, divided into four groups. Each group acts out Greek myths. Whilst some of the characters in the myths have a specific gender, this need not be the gender of the actor. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with scores for three original songs. Further dances can be added at the discretion of the production. |
Style | One-act musical play for a full class of children, providing roles for all and an introduction to several Greek myths. |
Synopsis | A group of children are shipwrecked on an island, and all they can find is a strange chest with a very odd collection of contents. The items inside help the children tell some old stories and keep up their spirits through the night until they are rescued the next 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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The Innkeeper's Cat by Liz Ansell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 31. No chorus. Very flexible casting. The script specifies the numbers of various character types, but they do not have individual lines, so numbers can be varied in either direction. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Lyrics to familiar out-of-copyright tunes are embedded in the script (with additional lyrics that fit to a copyrighted song supplied in the Producer's copy of the script). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Nativity play for young children (with enough roles for a primary school class). |
Synopsis | The Innkeeper's cat, Moses, is constantly disturbed and gets a little annoyed by all the fuss and visitors going on in the stables but his mood soon changes when he sees the new born baby. |
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Invasion from Planet Zorgon by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] Plus additional time for songs and dances. |
Music | Production notes list recommended music. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | One-act play for kids. Single, simple set. Lots of strong characters, lots of comedy. |
Synopsis | Aliens land in a sleepy American town - the usual sort of sleepy American town, populated by cowboys, sheriffs, super-heroes and the occasional pizza delivery man. |
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An Irregular Satellite by Meg Schenk |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Female character also sings. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for one of the two songs is provided with the Producer's copy of this script. (The other is a suggestion of a popular song.) |
Style | A one act love story, with two songs, and a single simple set. |
Synopsis | In an imaginative setting, good friends Fran and Scott gradually discover their love for each other. Written in American English. |
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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
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It's A Funny Old World by Bill Tordoff |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music to one song is provided with the Producer's Copy of the Script. (The tune is 'John Brown's Body' - or 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic' if you prefer.) |
Style | One-act youth comedy play. Single set (though a cricket pavillion on Neptune is a rather bizarre location). |
Synopsis | A group of ladies from 1913 are marooned on Neptune. How did they get there, and why are they still alive? Two crews from competing nations arrive to try and puzzle out the mystery, but they need to know what happened to the other missions first... |
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