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Tom and Huck by Steven Bergman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. The characters are a mix of children and adults. The adult roles could be played by children or adults. |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with a piano & vocal score for all the songs plus two (instrumental) chases. |
Style | Musical for kids based on the classic story 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain, set around the Mississippi river in the late 19th century. |
Synopsis | Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn get themselves and their friends into various scrapes, but ultimately emerge as heroes. |
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Trouble in Troy! by Mark Ash |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 15. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 24. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Very funny comedy play for kids, set amidst the Trojan war. Simple sets. |
Synopsis | Spectakles (pronounced in the Greek way!) the slave has a hard life in Troy, but the siege has made it harder. The King won't listen to any of his war machine inventions, and now Helen herself is causing him trouble too. Sent to the Greeks as an envoy, he gets them mad at him too. Can he survive the war? |
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Until Death Do Us Part by Catherine Hurd |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 89 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length drama with various sets. |
Synopsis | George and Jean have been happily married for many years and, as dementia starts its grip on George, Jean is determined that she will care for him despite their daughters' insistence that he should be placed in residential care. Jean’s determination is severely tested when an old flame, Harry Holmes, former detective and now successful novelist, comes to town for a book tour and tries to rekindle his romance with her. Matters get further complicated when an ex-con bent on revenge stalks Harry, and becomes convinced that Harry and Jean are trying to murder George. |
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The Wakefields at War by Tom Mather |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. Characters are mainly adults, but include three children (who age two years from 9, 10 and 12 during the course of the play). |
Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Drama in three acts with multiple settings depicting the horrors of World War One through its effect on one family. |
Synopsis | The true story of the Wakefields, an ordinary Lancashire working class family whose three eldest sons were all killed in action fighting in the First World War. |
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While You Were Gone by Catherine Gourdie Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 18. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 24. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 61 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The script can be performed with or without music. There are eight points in script where songs to be performed are suggested. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Two-act historical drama set in a 1940s factory, with a large cast. |
Synopsis | Edie reminisces on her experiences working in a factory during World War II. |
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Who Framed the Easter Bunny? by Warren McWilliams |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. A long list of characters, but with plenty of cameos and chorus roles, so plenty of opportunities for doubling or for participation of a large company. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] Timing allows for 10 songs. |
Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 10 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full-length family play (with songs) with interactive quiz elements. |
Synopsis | There's trouble brewing in Happy Kingdom. The Easter Bunny stands accused of stealing all the chocolate in the land by the wicked Halloween Queen, who wants to make Halloween last forever. The Easter Bunny needs your help before it's too late. Follow along, help find the clues, and prove the Easter Bunny's innocence. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Graphic image which might be used to form the nucleus of a flyer or poster for a production of 'Who Framed The Easter Bunny' by Warren McWilliams
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Who Killed Cock Robin? by Sue Gordon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act (but a fairly long act) comedy for kids. Single (courtroom) set. |
Synopsis | Never mind all the birds of the air sighing and sobbing when they heard of the death of poor cock robin - what happened when the case came to court? |
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Who The Devil Did It? by Carol Hill and Anna Heppner |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 34. Chorus. A large cast piece. Most of the characters are written male, but some could easily be switched without changing the nature of the piece. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with sheet music for 7 original songs plus instrumental interludes. Snatches of other songs are suggested. |
Style | Full-length musical comedy for juniors/teenagers. |
Synopsis | Two brothers, who are a little down on their luck, stumble onto a big art theft and end up deeply involved in the search for the stolen painting, the thief and the fabulous missing Mona Lisa to boot! |
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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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Who wants to be a Millipede? by Sue Gordon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 21. No chorus. Whilst some of the characters are given specific gender, they are, when all's said and done, invertebrates, so it doesn't really matter! There's no formal chorus, but there could be many more 'minibeasts'. |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Educational (entomological) adventure for kids. Minimal sets, but scope for a lot of fun with the costumes! |
Synopsis | A group of garden-dwelling invertebrates (arthropods, molluscs and an earthworm, since you ask) are under threat from a pesticide attack and need to go on a journey to seek a new habitat. The millipede puts his best foot forward (having spent some time working out which one it is). |
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The Wicked Witch & The Magic Shop by William Arnold Ashbrook Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. The cast includes cats and gremlins. Gladys could be played as a pantomime dame. |
Run Time | Around 97 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script comes with the scores for 11 original songs (plus five reprises). |
Style | A musical family show with opportunities for audience participation (therefore occupying a theatrical space close to British Pantomime). |
Synopsis | Graveling, the evil witch, has turned a number of good people into life size dolls and cats. The young heroes, enlist the help of the owners of the Magic Shop and Marlin the decrepit magician, and together they manage to defeat the witch and her gremlin helpers. |
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