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The Great Fairytale Robbery by Eric Scott, John Regan & Deanne Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 22. Chorus. Doubling of one character is essential in this script. |
Run Time | Around 94 minutes. [Estimated!] Songs included in the timing for this production. |
Music | Piano and vocal scores for ten songs are provided with the Producer's copy of the script. |
Style | A musical play for children with multiple settings. |
Synopsis | The evil head of a TV studio is determined to rid the world of children's books, and sets out to destroy fairytale and pantomime characters. Poor Cinderella is first on her list, but many familiar characters are also affected. Scarecrow Oz, magically given a brain, devises a cunning rescue plan... |
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A Grimm Night for Hans Christian Andersen (Musical) by Sue Gordon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 40. No chorus. Lots of speaking parts, but few characters per scene so easy to structure small rehearsals. Whilst it does not require a chorus, there is scope for extra characters in a few of the scenes. Some of the characters sing! |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for 7 original songs and 3 pieces of incidental music is provided with the producer's copy of the script. |
Style | Comic retelling of fairytales as a musical play. Many scenes, but using the same few pieces of 'set furniture'. Simple props. |
Synopsis | Hans Christian Andersen gets an unexpected visit from the Brothers Grimm - who seem to be upset over the matter of stealing story lines. A competition ensues, with characters from Andersen and Grimm stories taking the stage - often in unexpected ways. |
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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 ** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files ** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show ** Backing tracks for the 7 songs and 3 pieces of incidental music for 'A Grimm Night for Hans Christian Andersen' ** Vocal tracks for the 7 songs (plus 3 pieces of incidental music) for 'A Grimm Night for Hans Christian Andersen' by Sue Gordon. (Arrangements by Dave Watt, vocals by Leanne Cooper and, Jonny & Stuart Ardern. Recordings by Dave Watt and Jonny Ardern.) ** A zip file of backing tracks for the 7 songs and 3 pieces of incidental music for 'A Grimm Night for Hans Christian Andersen' ** Vocal tracks for the 7 songs (plus 3 pieces of incidental music) for 'A Grimm Night for Hans Christian Andersen' by Sue Gordon. (Arrangements by Dave Watt, vocals by Leanne Cooper and, Jonny & Stuart Ardern. Recordings by Dave Watt and Jonny Ardern.)
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Hook and Peter Pan - How it all began by Giles Scott, Helen Dooley and Bob Walsh Cape Times Awards for Amateur Theatre, "Best Musical" 2003 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 35. Chorus. This is not a panto, but it would be possible for Peter Pan and some or all of the lost boys to be played by girls. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano and vocal scores for Overture and 15 songs by Helen Dooley and Bob Walsh are supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | Full-length musical which could be played by a youth company, by adults or by a mixture. The production notes include extensive explanations of how to fly! |
Synopsis | Everyone knows the story of Peter Pan. But how did the Boy Who Never Grew Up learn to fly? How did Hook lose his hand? How did the croc swallow the clock? This enchanting musical provides the answers! |
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The Labours Of Heracles by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 27. No chorus. The minimum cast assumes reallocation of the Amazons' lines. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with scores for four original songs. |
Style | Comedy play with four original songs. Multiple locations, but intended for minimal staging. Intended for school productions from Year 6 (US Grade 5) upwards. |
Synopsis | Heracles' twelve mighty labours are recreated (and rehydrated) just off the stage in this light comedy based on the Greek legend.(No lions need be harmed in this production.) |
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Lotta Crabtree! by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 22. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music (piano and vocal) for 19 songs is included with the Producer's Copy of the Script. |
Style | Full-length light musical comedy, set in the California Goldrush |
Synopsis | A fantasia on the real life of Lotta Crabtree, who, as a child, made her living (and her mother's living) touring her song and dance act around the mining camps of the California goldrush. |
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Marvellous Marie by Richard Cowling |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 12. Minimum total with doubling = 31. Minimum total without doubling = 38. Chorus. Many of the characters appear in only one or two scenes, so a lot of doubling is possible. There are also numerous choruses - Polish Dancers, Parisians, and an American crowd, for example. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano and vocal scores for 28 songs, instrumentals and pieces of scene-change music. |
Style | School musical. Lots of scenes but with location indicaters rather than lavish sets. |
Synopsis | Moving, inspirational musical exploration of the life and work of Marie Curie from Polish upbringing to Paris and the Nobel Prize. Original songs for an original scientific life. |
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Murdering the Mikado by Nigel Holloway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script, based on songs from The Mikado. The music covers five songs (for a variety of voices with keyboard accompaniment) plus an instrumental (scored for two keyboards). |
Style | Full-length play (set amongst the preparations and production of a pantomime) with songs adapted from the Mikado. |
Synopsis | An unscrupulous journalist gets his theatrical comeuppance in a desperately improvised performance of an Aladdin pantomime - based on Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado! Another hilarious romp with the Off-The-Wall Theatre Company (The fictional but all-too-familiar heroes of several Nigel Holloway plays). |
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Phantomime by Jonathan Goodson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | There's one suggested song for which a piano and vocal score is provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | Full length comedy play in a single set. Despite the panto content, this is a play aimed at an adult cast and audience. The characters are interesting, the situation is novel, the dialogue is snappy and fun, and the conclusion is satisfying. |
Synopsis | A novel twist on the theme of putting on a play. Bernadette's spirit must haunt the school where she was Headmistress until they put on a performance worthy to be a tribute to the village's war dead. Now she only has ex-pupil Tiffany the janitor to help her pull together the perfect panto. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Vocal Demo and rehearsal track (piano with vocal line played on another instrument) for 'Crystal Shallows', the original song from 'Phantomime' by Jonathan Goodson.
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The Pirate Queen by Tim O'Brien |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 29. Minimum total without doubling = 40. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with scores for 6 original songs (one of which is reprised). |
Style | Time-travelling musical for kids with a healthy dose of piracy thrown-in. |
Synopsis | Jack, Darrell and Sean are three students living in the shadow of their more successful peers. But when a freak storm during a fishing expedition causes them to be whisked back to the 18th century and they encounter a crew of pirate women, they may be about to change history! |
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A Savoy Christmas Carol by Nigel Holloway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 32. Chorus. The main characters are adults, with a smattering of children. |
Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | A Piano and Vocal score for all the 27 songs (with 22 orchestral pieces scored for multiple instruments) is provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. The scores have deliberately kept away from extremes of vocal range. |
Style | Operetta, setting the Charles Dickens story to the music of Arthur Sullivan. |
Synopsis | A traditional re-telling of Dickens' classic story of the redemption of a miser, using pieces from many of Gilbert and Sullivan's musicals with original lyrics. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Additional copy of the Piano and Vocal Score for 'A Savoy Christmas Carol' in an A4 ring binder. Scores for 29 songs and 22 (orchestrated) instrumentals. (This is the same as the copy provided with the Producer's Copy of the script.)
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