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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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| 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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| Moving With The Times by Jennifer Garthwright |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. If all the scripted Music Hall Turns are performed by separate groups, then at least 38 actors would be required. The characters are mainly adults (with two roles for children in the Music Hall Turns), but the show could be performed by children. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for one song (suggested for one of the Music Hall Turns) is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Large cast family comedy play, set backstage in a 1900 Music Hall, alternating with the Turns on the Music Hall stage. The script includes seven optional Turns, including a short one-act Melodrama. (Other Turns can be substituted by the producer.) |
| Synopsis | Back stage at Mr. Harding's Music Hall all is in turmoil - ticket receipts are down as the company is threatened by the popularity of the Moving Picture House next door, Madam Harding, the star of the show, has lost her nerve, someone has blocked the chimney, causing the wings to fill with smoke, and the lowly stage hand is definitely not what he seems to be. Even so, the show must go on, and the back stage drama alternates with the Music Hall turns on the stage. |
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| Mr Micawber Down Under by David Barry |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Five narrating voices also have numerous character roles. |
| Run Time | Around 135 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Five musical pieces 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 play with various (simple) settings. |
| Synopsis | In this Dickens spin-off, the Micawber family find themselves in Australia, where Mr Micawber's incorrigible optimism continues - he is sure that something will turn up. In many twists and turns the story, assisted by innovative narration here and there, unfolds - as the family, pursued by creditors finally sails into the sunset, convinced that something will turn up in New Zealand. |
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| Mrs Santa Claus's Tea Party by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. One of the few stage plays to offer lines to talking pies. Whilst many of the characters have a specific gender, it doesn't really matter for the purposes of casting. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for seven songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act (largely secular) Christmas play for children with no set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Mrs Santa Claus invites familiar Christmas characters to her annual tea party. Everyone joins in the spirit of Christmas as they sing and dance their way through the preparations for the big day. |
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| Murder at the Music Hall by Laura Sanderson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Some suggestions for music and songs are made in the Producer's Copy of the script, though other period music could work just as well. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A melodramatic spoof of a country house murder mystery for a youth theatre company. Music Hall acts might be interspersed with the action! |
| Synopsis | The cast of the Music Hall are invited back to the manor house of their sponsor, Hector Clarkson. They are joined by most of the Clarkson family and a Duchess, but his Lordship is missing... until he is found murdered! Time to ask: Whodunnit? |
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| The Musicians of Bremen by Tony Best |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. No formal chorus, but there is the option of bringing on additional singers. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The script includes songs set to well-known music. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one-act rhyming play for Junior School pupils. |
| Synopsis | Four unwanted animals, a donkey, a dog, a cat and a rooster, meet up and believe they have amazing singing prowess. Though everyone they meet disagrees, the band accidentally put to flight a band of robbers, and live ever afterward in the robber's house with their ill-gotten gains. |
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| Nativity News by Sarah Cowan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 40. No chorus. Doubling possibilities make cast numbers very adaptable - at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] This is dependent on the optional use of music suggestions. |
| Music | Eight music - song -suggestions provided to use for scene changes and for sound effects. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act play, with musical interludes, for children to perform. |
| Synopsis | The Nativity story re-told in an upbeat new way, using reporters and a 'newsdesk'. See the Shepherds interviewed in the fields! See the animal experts give their opinions on the donkey! All the events revealed in a fun way. |
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| The Nativity Story by S. J. Edwards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 32. No chorus. There are multiple narrators, villagers, servants, shepherds, sheep and angels. Numbers can be expanded or contracted to suit the production. Characters include a number of talking animals. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One carol is suggested in the Producer's copy of the script. Others might be added at the discretion of the production team. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One act, humorous play suitable for 9-12 year olds. Simple set requirements. It's fun, but still contains all the relevant information and doesn't mock the subject of the story. |
| Synopsis | The story of the birth of Jesus retold with a light touch of humour, retaining the original story intact. |
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