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| A Brief Encounter with Murder by Peter John Cooper |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Jones the Carpet is written female, but could be either. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Absurd comedy. Single livingroom set. |
| Synopsis | A restful holiday in a 1940s themed holiday home becomes a bizarre murder mystery as Mother goes missing with a bearded fisherman and a fat vicar lies dead in the front room. Was it the Rat Catcher, the Carpet Fitter or the French Dressmaker? And who is the Man with the Big Hammer? |
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A Budget Cinderella by Peter Bond
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Chorus size at Producer's discretion |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions are provided with the Producer's copy Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A One Act Pantomime. |
| Synopsis | In this watered down version of the old favourite there is no watering down of the action, as the usual suspects put a different slant on the Cinderella story. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Butterfly Shoes by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Humorous one-act fairy tale for kids, simple sets. |
| Synopsis | An unheroic hero has to rescue a kidnapped granny from the clutches of a tribe of mountain Amazons, mainly, it appears, for the sake of the granny's shoes. |
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| Buttons by Susan Vesey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] Structured as two acts, but could be played as a long one-act. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | British pantomime - a Cinderella sequel. Two acts in structure, but on the boundary between a one-act and full-length show in run-time. |
| Synopsis | A year has passed since Cinderella became Queen. Buttons has the catering contract for Prince Charming's Ball and he employs Ciabatta and Cappuccino, the ugly sisters who have returned in disguise, as cooks. Cinderella's stepmother, Elvira, has taken a correspondence course and is now a powerful fairy, able to defeat the Fairy Godmother. Cinderella ends up as a scullery maid, unable to speak, and with the name Linda, and Buttons falls in love all over again. Who can restore the balance of magic and save the day? |
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| Caesar and the Pirates [Short Version] by Nicholas Richards and Timothy Hallett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 29. Chorus. Flexible - the pirates roles could easily be shared by a smaller number and other doubling is possible. On the other hand, there is scope for pirate and soldier chourses. Only one specfied female roles but some could be cast female. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with piano and vocal scores for six songs. |
| Style | Comedy play for kids - with optional songs.
(A longer version of the same play is available.) |
| Synopsis | An older Caesar is recounting his campaigns in Gaul to a bored scribe, who suggests that it might benefit Caesar's public image to tell a tale of his younger days... Something dashing, perhaps, involving pirates? As it happens, Caesar does know such a story...
Great fun (and secretly educational) with a genuine event in Caesar's life. |
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** Vocal recording for five tracks and six rehearsal tracks (accompaniment with an instrument playing the vocal line) for the songs from Caesar and the Pirates [Short Version].
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| Captain Hook's Revenge by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Dame assumed to be played by Male, Principal Boy (Peter Pan) by Female. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A few song suggestions are made in the production notes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British Pantomime. Slapstick and silliness, lots of jokes and a crocodile. |
| Synopsis | Captain Hook plots his revenge on Peter Pan, with the help of a crocodile and a poisoned cake. Peter Pan, Tonkerbell (the punk fairy) and the crocodile have other ideas. (Follows much of the plot of Peter Pan, but has more collisions with trees.)
Note that as with all adaptations of Peter Pan, we pay half the author's royalties to Great Ormond Street Hospital |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| The Case of the Missing School by Sue Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 38. Chorus. Very flexible casting - a set of core characters plus episodes with other characters, which make doubling possible. Several flexible chorus groups. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for songs/music. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Comedy play aimed squarely at primary schools. A complete core script with suggestions and opportunities for customisation to fit a specific school. |
| Synopsis | When a powerful evil magician makes the local primary school disappear, along with the letters from the school sign, three schoolchildren (with the help of the School Fairy Godmother) vow to find all the letters and restore their school. But the aptly- named Evil One has hidden the letters in bizarre places, leading the children back through history, around the world, and even into space in their attempts to rebuild their sign. A script for schools with opportunities for the children to experiment with improvisation and their own creativity. |
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| Cinderella [Small Cast Version] by tlc Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. The monster could be doubled by the actor playing the fairy. The off-stage voice might be recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The script does without songs (or song suggestions), but productions may add songs if they feel it appropriate. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A version of the classic fairytale, for a scmall cast,, adapted (shortened) from TLC Creative's popular full-length, large cast version. Presented in one act but a production could be split into two acts, particularly if lengthened by songs. |
| Synopsis | Cinderella lives a life of drudgery, bullied by her horrible Ugly sisters, Salmonella and Listeria. Her only comfort is her pal Buttons! Prince Charming is holding a ball to meet his bride to be. Can this be the chance that Cinders has been waiting for? Despite the best efforts of her two malicious Ugly Sisters, Cinderella shall go to the ball with the help of her Magical Fairy Godmother! |
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| Cinderella [Version 3] by Peter Bond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 29. Chorus. Traditionally, the ugly sisters (Sharon and Tracy, in this case) would be played by chaps and prince charming would be played by a girl - but this is optional, so make up your own mind about who does what! Includes rats, mice, horses and a bear! |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes some song suggestions, with lyrics written to fit the show. (These include a song about tea to the tune of Land of Hope and Glory.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Mid-length British Pantomime. |
| Synopsis | A poor girl is downtrodden by her mean Stepmother and hideous stepsisters. Luckily for her, she has a Fairy Godmother on her side and a handsome prince waiting in the wings! |
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| Cinderella And Her Cat by Hayley Nunn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Variable chorus size at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 68 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | 14 song suggestions are provided with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A modern full length pantomime in two acts, with various settings. |
| Synopsis | A re-working of the familiar Cinderella story, with the usual panto characters and fun - a contemporary script, including a couple of cats... |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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