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The Musical Scottish Play by Bill Siviter with Lea Anderson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] Up to 90 minutes with banquets, ballads and battles! |
Music | Sheet music for six original songs (Music by Lea Anderson, Lyrics by Bill Siviter) supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. |
Style | Irreverent play in verse and song, told by the protagonists and by narrators with the action mimed. A good introduction to Shakespeare's story! (The specified run-time is the minimum - banquets, battles and bopping will add to the run time!) |
Synopsis | The Musical Scottish Play - or 'Kids in Kilts' The complete story of Shakespeare's Macbeth (witches, murder, walking trees, revenge - that sort of thing) told as in verse and songs as a play for kids. [Note that there is also a version of this play without the songs, called The Scottish Play. It is identical except that the songs have been omitted.] |
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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 New You by Wesley A. Knoch |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano and Vocal sheet music for nine original songs is provided with the Producer's Copy of the script |
Style | One act musical comedy play - set in the studio of a TV make-over show complete with cheesy presenters and sponsorship jingles. |
Synopsis | A Nasally over-blessed heroine (Miss Nodda Tragtiff) takes part in a reality Makeover show, only to find that the New You promised has caused her to lose her old friends and only gained her fleeting popularity with new people. She comes to understand that real beauty comes from within, and true friends aren't swayed by appearance. |
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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
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Noah, Yes Noah! by Richard Cowling |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 40. Chorus. Very flexible cast, with solo roles and (potentially) a very large chorus, described as the people of earth and dancing pairs of animals. (There is even a non-speaking cameo for God.) |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy comes with a piano and vocal score for the 19 songs and instrumentals. (There is a conductors score and band parts as an optional extra.) |
Style | Lively, expressive, epic musical with some light humour. Designed to not rely heavily on props or set. |
Synopsis | Noah receives a message from God that the earth will be washed away. With his wife, his three sons and their respective wives, all of them ignoring the sneers of the ignorant townsfolk, he begins crafting an ark to bear them and the animals of the world to safety. |
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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 ** CD of the orchestrated version of Noah, Yes Noah! by Richard Cowling. (Note that this is backing music, the tracks are purely instrumental and do not necessarily have a prominent instrument playing the vocal parts) ** Conductor's score and band parts - Flute, Clarinet, Alto Sax and Tenor Sax (for two reed players), Trumpet, Trombone, Bass, and Keyboard - for 'Noah, Yes Noah' by Richard Cowling.
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Nun Fun in the Arizona Sun by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Characters include a singing cow! Whilst there isn't a formal chorus, the number of nuns and orphans could probably be increased. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano and vocal scores for six songs (plus opening instrumental) are supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | One-act musical comedy for kids. Single set. |
Synopsis | A shady businessman and his dim-witted accomplice arrive at an orphanage to attempt to swindle the resident nuns out of the gold mine they're situated over. But they've reckoned without the enthusiasm of the young orphans, and their magical singing cow... |
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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 ** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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Olivia Twist by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Characters are a mix of adults and teenagers, intended to be played by teens. The script does not specify a chorus, but extra chorus roles could be added. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for 8 original songs supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
Style | Musical play with a horror element ('Oliver Twist' crossed with 'A Portrait of Dorian Grey' on a dark night in Salem.) Simple sets, few props. |
Synopsis | When Olivia Twist is rescued from the streets, she thinks she has met with a philanthropist, however her benefactor turns out to be a lot more sinister... |
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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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One in the Eye by Bill Siviter with Lea Anderson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Since the characters include 'William's Army' and 'Harold's Army' the numbers are rather vague (or very flexible, depending on the gloss you want to apply). Most of the characters are supposedly male, but don't let that stop you. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with sheet music for six original songs (one of which is reprised). |
Style | An educational, historical, rhyming comedy musical. (There. What does that leave out?) |
Synopsis | The story of the Harold, the last Saxon king of England who proves adept at dealing with his riotous brothers and Viking invaders, but is finally overcome by William, Duke of Normandy, with his secret weapon... |
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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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Perseus and Medusa - The Musical by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Scores for 7 songs (including reprises) plus overture are supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | One act musical for kids - a humorous treatment in modern (American) English of ancient Greek myth. |
Synopsis | Perseus has been given a challenge by the King: he must find and behead the gorgon Medusa, and bring the head back for the King's wedding day. Along the way he will meet gray sisters, nymphs, the gorgon herself and maybe even the woman he will marry... |
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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 ** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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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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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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The Point of the Pyramid - Musical by Sue Gordon Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. Thirteen speaking roles with lots of supporting players (with a lot of scope for doubling). The songs need three or four soloists and a chorus or choir. |
Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with sheet music (piano and vocal) for six original songs. |
Style | One-act historical, educational, musical comedy mystery! (What more could you want?) A story of intrigue in Ancient Egypt with a lot of period detail (suitable for the Key Stage 2 history syllabus) snuck in! |
Synopsis | Someone is plotting against the Pharaoh! On a visit to the construction site of his much-delayed pyramid, his life is threatened by a falling stone. Luckily, Baki, one of the slave builders, saves the Pharaoh and is rewarded with his freedom. Then Baki learns that the Pharaoh has had four food-tasters poisoned in the last three weeks. Can he save the Pharaoh's life again? |
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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 ** CD with backing tracks for the six songs from 'The Point of the Pyramid - Musical' by Sue Gordon. ** CD of sung versions of the six songs from 'The Point of the Pyramid' by Sue Gordon. (Musical accompaniment by Dave Watt, vocal recordings by Jonny Ardern.) ** Zip file with backing tracks for the six songs from 'The Point of the Pyramid - Musical' by Sue Gordon. ** Zip file containing MP3s of sung versions of the six songs from 'The Point of the Pyramid' by Sue Gordon. (Musical accompaniment by Dave Watt, vocal recordings by Jonny Ardern.)
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Professor Thyme and the History Mystery - The Musical by Richard James with music by David Fisher |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 36. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano and vocal scores for seven songs and an overture are supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
Style | Musical Comedy Caper for Kids. Structurally in two acts. |
Synopsis | When the dastardly Count Downe uses Professor Thyme's Time Machine to travel into the past and change history, it's up to the Professor and his gang to follow him and put things right before the damage is done... and to sing in the process! |
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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 ** CD with piano accompaniment for all the songs from 'Professor Thyme and the History Mystery - the Musical' by Richard James with music by David Fisher ** CD with sung tracks for each of the eight songs from 'Professor Thyme and the History Mystery - the Musical' by Richard James with music by David Fisher
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