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| Blond by Rob Wellington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Characters are all adults, but suitable for a teenage cast. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy comes with sheet music (piano and vocals) for 13 songs. |
| Style | Small-cast comedy musical, packed with manic zaniness. Few staging requirements, but some interesting sound effects (head struck by frying pan, that sort of thing). Includes mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Jackson Bligh isn't quite the brilliant detective he thinks he is, but he undertakes the job of safeguarding James Blond's amazing recipe from the dreaded Morticia De Bauch. She's in league with James' sister, and it'll take a miracle to save the world... |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| Bottoms Up! by Rob Wellington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal score for 13 original songs plus Overture and Entr'act are supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Musical comedy play set amongst the staff of a High School. Simple sets. |
| Synopsis | The disconsolate teachers of Neeson High have a new member of staff, whom the young male members absolutely fawn over. But following her to the school is her crime boss father and his two henchmen. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| A Breath Of Fresh Air by Kate Goddard |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. One character is an offstage voice |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] This allows for 16 songs or music pieces included |
| Music | Optional assorted music with suggested tunes and some popular songs with re-written words. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act play with optional music and dance. |
| Synopsis | Carbin Dioxide the second is determined to find more oil and gas to make himself even richer. His assistants discover they can reach the deposits under the North Pole if they increase global warming to melt the ice. Who can stop them? |
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| The Brilliance in the Room by Phil Porter |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 105. No chorus. An ensemble piece designed for a cast of 12 or more, each playing multiple roles. |
| Run Time | Around 102 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length sweep of Dickensian vignettes, with an ensemble of actors playing multiple characters. No specific set, but props are manipulated to convey locations. |
| Synopsis | A dreamlike convergence of Dickens’ characters and situations swirl about the stage, in a celebration of the author’s works. |
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| Bye Bye Miss Amelia Pye by Patricia Gay |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Three characters are portrayed in both 1959 and 2009. |
| Run Time | Around 94 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length detective thriller with a single simple setting. Action slips between 2009 and 1959. |
| Synopsis | In 1959, in the remote Longmoor Manor, a young girl called Amelia Pye was found murdered. Arthur Pye, an ex-commando turned communist was the prime suspect. However, his guilt was never proven. In 2009 the long-married Charlotte and Edward Colville play host to the obnoxious Selena Harper and her mollycoddled son Hadley. Hadley, with his unhealthy fascination with murder, fancies himself as an amateur sleuth, and sets out to solve the mystery. |
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| Caesar and the Pirates [Full Version] by Nicholas Richards and Timothy Hallett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 18. 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 role - Venus! - but others could be cast female. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with piano and vocal scores for six songs. |
| Style | Musical comedy play for kids - though the songs are optional.
A shorter version of the same play is available.
First published in 2011, revised in 2012. |
| 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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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** 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 [Full Version].
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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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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** 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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| Can't Explain by Steve Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. A chorus of 4F, 4M is assumed. (This could be enlarged, particularly for the songs.) |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggestions for 17 rock/pop songs are included in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Musical play set in a high school (or other form of secondary education establishment). Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Lou Harris is trying to cope with his Dad walking out and has buried himself in the music collection he left behind. His friends want him to get a grip, but when he does shape up, they do'nt like the person he becomes. Can he find the right balance? |
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| Casualty Chaos by Karen Doling |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy play which doesn't rely on traditional doctor gags for laughs, instead creating plausible but zany situations which work well in the established 'almost real' world. Single split-stage set. |
| Synopsis | It's a busy few days in the Accident and Emergency department - they're short of Doctors but long on impatient patients. People are plastered, the sole doctor is plagued by rats and can't finish his knitting, and the devastating fire just slows things down a little. |
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| A Cause for Division by Stewart Boston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full length historical drama (with plenty of both). Single (period Scotish cottage) setting. Contains a small amount of mildly offensive language. |
| Synopsis | David is a fiery son of Scotland, ready to serve Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) in the Jacobite uprising. His father John has a business to run and throws him from the house. Alexander is the elder son who stands by his father but doesn't turn his back on his rebel brother. A family at war in 1745. |
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