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| Acting Funny by Jack Burgess |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 52. Chorus. Three of the characters (two in one sketch, one in another) are intended to be played by children. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for the opening and closing songs are supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. (Original lyrics, music by Sir Arthur Sullivan) |
| Style | A revue - a set of 17 comedy sketches and songs, varying in length from one to ten minutes. Basically a family show, but includes mild swearing in a few of the sketches. |
| Synopsis | A collection of sketches, including opening and closing songs, five Great Moments from History, two French Lessons, three monologues, a very small circus, the ante-rooms to the after-life, a spoof of a medical soap opera, a martial arts demonstration and the Dead Carrot sketch. [Note that some of the longer sketches are also available individually.] |
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| Additional Dialogue by Catherine Shelton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 13. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. All the characters are high school students. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Music from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet is suggested (subject to the ability of the on-stage band!) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length romantic comedy play. (Not strictly a musical or really a musical play, but requires an on-stage band, with a small share of the dialogue.) |
| Synopsis | A rehearsal for a school production of Romeo and Juliet contains far more drama amongst the cast members than onstage, as friendships, new loves and old flames are tested, torn apart and reunited in a very busy afternoon. |
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| Bakers by Tim Cole |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. Optional chorus of bakery workers. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 8 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length comedy play - a family show - with strong characters, running jokes and a fair amount of bakery horseplay! Single main set (a bakery) with front-of-tab scenes. |
| Synopsis | Thanks to Mary's business partner, her bakery is about to close. Luckily the Town Hall Bread suppliers have failed and she could pick up the contract and save the bakery - unless her partner can throw another spanner in the works. |
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| Benny Manhattan And The Caponi Diamond by Carol Hill |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 30. Minimum total without doubling = 36. Chorus. Variable chorus size as desired by the Producer. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Music suggestions for nine optional pieces are included with the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A gangster farce in two acts, suitable for youth performers, with various settings. |
| Synopsis | The bumbling Manhattan gang, led by Benny Manhattan, get themselves embroiled in double crossings with the Caponi family. A bank robbery runs into difficulties when the Caponi diamond is inadvertently, or perhaps deliberately, included in the Manhattan's haul. |
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| Cadbury Angels by Alison Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] The estimated run time allows time for 15 songs. |
| Music | 15 songs are suggested in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length play with songs. Set some time in the 2000s and in the 1940s.
First published in 2022, revised 2023. |
| Synopsis | Clearing the house after her mother has died, a daughter finds some strange treasures packed away: letters, some nylons, a ball of chewing gum? She's uncovered a secret of her mother's past - she was a Cadbury Angel. |
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| Charles Dickens' Christmas Eve by Wende Feller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. One of the male characters is a child. The script has a cast of 18, but divided across the two acts so that the cast of 9 from the first act can double to perform the second act. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A series of Christmas Carols is recommended in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Two act period piece. Single set with split-level stage. |
| Synopsis | The first act focuses on Christmas at Bracebridge Hall, adapted from material by Washington Irving, Jane Austen and Wilkie Collins. The second act is Wende Feller's adaptation of 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens |
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| A Christmas Carol [Version 3] by Michael Morton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 37. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 88 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script suggests a series of carols to be sung during the show. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full-length play adapted from the classic novel by Charles Dickens. |
| Synopsis | On the night of Christmas Eve, the miserly and embittered Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by a series of ghosts. |
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| Cutpurse Moll and the Lonely Hearts by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script contains suggestions for 9 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length comedy with music - a modern take on the life of a notorious 17th century figure. Four settings, but created by the company moving furniture, otherwise bare stage. |
| Synopsis | When cross-dressing criminal Moll Cutpurse agrees to 'marry' Sebastian, it is all part of the escort service she provides for gentlemen of society. In reality, young Sebastian wants to marry Mary, but his father has refused, so he tries to deceive him into believing that he intends to marry the notorious Moll instead. |
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| Dance With The Devil by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 91 minutes. [Estimated!] Approximate timing includes songs. |
| Music | The producer's copy of this script contains suggestions for six traditional songs, with alternative lyrics. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length restoration-style comedy with music. |
| Synopsis | When Charles II is restored to the crown in 1660, multitudes of aristocratic émigrés return from exile in Paris, bringing with them a lifestyle rich in a French flamboyance quite alien to the English Puritans. Lord Ascot agrees to take on a young French footman, Claude Duval, whose Gallic affectations and charms quickly catch the eye of Lady Ascot and her circle of friends. Unbeknown to his employers, Duval is a compulsive gambler with a penchant for committing robbery on the highway. |
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| Dearly Beloved by Sarah Archer |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 81 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Two song suggestions as well as a musical score for one original song, available with the producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | A comedy drama with music, for four actors. |
| Synopsis | A single mother, a businessman and a teenage girl find themselves trapped in a mysterious room. Eventually, the truth of their situation dawns, and the unlikely trio realise they’ll have to work together to find the answers that will set them free. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
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