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| Jack and the Giant by Peter Nuttall |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Twenty-minute play for kids. |
| Synopsis | A brief telling of the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. Jack gets tricked into exchanging all his mother's weath for a handful of magic beans. The beans grow into a giant beanstalk which enables Jack to climb to the clouds and meet Giant Biggins...
One of Peter Nuttall's Grimm Tales (for Little Horrors) |
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| Jonah And The Giant Fish by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short biblical story play, in three scenes, for children. |
| Synopsis | A re-telling of Jonah and his reluctance to preach to the people of Ninevah. Or - The one that didn't get away! |
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The King's Spell by Sherrill S. Cannon & Kerry E. Gallagher
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Variations on some well-known nursery songs are embedded in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Class-sized play for elementary schools, embedding mixed-up versions of well-known nursery songs. |
| Synopsis | Old King Cole isn't so merry when his pipe, bowl and fiddlers don't turn up. In fact, he's so miffed that he puts a spell on all Mother Goose Land, mixing up all the characters and rhymes. Mother Goose goes to see if she can help untangle everyone. |
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| The Legend of Santa Claus by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Characters include two elves. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fifteen-minute play suited to both performance by schools and also adult (or mixed company) presentation to schools. |
| Synopsis | A charming and thought-provoking dramatisation of the origins of the worldwide legend of Santa Claus. 'Tis the night before Christmas and two young girls, Betty and Ruth, are excitedly finalising preparations for the big day as their daddy tells the story of Santa Claus with a reading of Clement Moore's poem. The tale is magically brought to life as first St Nicholas and then Santa Claus arrive to tell their stories, with the help of two of Santa's elves. |
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| Let's Be Friends by Iris Winston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. The characters are all animals. The chorus of woodland animals could be performed live or could be puppets or silhouettes. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Simple morality play for young children about making friends despite differences. (To be performed by children, or possibly an older group playing to young children.) |
| Synopsis | Sammy Skunk tries to make friends with some squirrels, but is rejected - at least until the squirrels get lost in the forest, and realise just how useful a friend like Sammy can be. |
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A Letter to Santa by Sue Gordon
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Two of the characters are nominally adults. It is written so that the cast can be divided into two - a school class and Santa's elves. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for 5 original songs is provided with the producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | A light musical for young children. Basic sets. |
| Synopsis | A school class write Christmas letters to Santa, and we discover that they are dealt with by Mrs. Santa and a bunch of fractious elves. |
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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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| The Little Hut in the Woods by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play, in two scenes, suitable for young school-aged performers. |
| Synopsis | Three sisters find a hut in the woods as they travel, one at a time, in search of their father. The first two are rude and unhelpful, and find themselves trapped in the cellar by the old man and his animal friends. But the third daughter is polite and generous, and then finds the old man is not what he seems. |
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The Little Red Hen by Gerald P. Murphy
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. A narrator, a bunch of barnyard fowl and a fox! Whilst there isn't a chorus specified, it would be easy to increase the flock! |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Producer's copy of the script includes piano/vocal scores for seven simple songs (including reprises). |
| Style | A simple musical for young children, based on a familiar story! |
| Synopsis | It's pizza time in the barnyard, and as usual Peggy Pullet is doing all the work. The rest of the fowl are happy to let her - until they get a harsh lesson in the shape of a wily fox. |
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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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| Live by Robin Fusco |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A ten-minute play set in an underground bunker. |
| Synopsis | A makeshift family must decide whether to die in the bunker they have called home or to embrace change and brave the outside world. |
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| Looks Like Rain by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. The animals are puppets of unspecified kind and unspecified number (therefore requiring an unspecified number (chorus) of puppeteers. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A light-hearted re-telling of the Noah's Ark story, in about 20 minutes, freely adapted for young performers. |
| Synopsis | Noah's family are shocked when the weather forecaster announces the imminent arrival of something called 'rain'. A visit from the Archangel Michael clears things up for Noah, but leaves him with the task of building an Ark - and convincing the animals to come onboard. |
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