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Aladdin [10 Minute Version] by Jonathan Edgington Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Altered lyrics to one well-known song, and a suggestion for a second song, are included in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A short pantomine script with two simply staged sets (launderette/palace). |
Synopsis | A short, pacy version of the classic Aladdin story with lots of new material and jokes. |
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The Ant Chant by Michal Y Noah Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Two original songs are included in this script. |
Style | A short rhyming musical play for children. |
Synopsis | A day in the life of an ant and their worker companions is told in musical rhyme. Adapted from the childrens' book of the same name. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Zip file containing recordings by Jonny Casto-Ardern of the two songs from 'The Ant Chant' by Michal Y Noah. The recordings come in two forms - simple backing tracks and vocal demos. Additionally, Song 2 has a demo recording of just the chant.
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The Book Club of Little Witterington by Joan Greening Best Seller Performance by Edinburgh People’s Theatre won the Edinburgh division of the SCDA one-act festival, 2023 and went on to win best comedy in One Act Play Festival. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy for five ladies. Minimal set (a sofa and chairs to indicate a living room). Contains a few mild swearwords and several books. |
Synopsis | The regular ladies of the Book Club, all friends since school, are wary of letting a newcomer to the village join. But there's more to Paula than meets the eye, and she may even have what it takes to get around the appallingly snobbish Belle. |
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Charlotte Holmes - Future Detective by Richard James Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Option to double up roles of Narrators, Pupils and Guards |
Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play for children |
Synopsis | Young Charlotte Holmes may well be a 23rd century descendant of Sherlock and is eager to do some detective work. Her opportunity arises on a school trip to a museum when it is discovered that Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ painting has been stolen. |
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A Charming Affair by Robert Scott Best Seller Performance by American Theatre of Dubai was the Judges Award Winner, Short and Sweet Theatre Festival (Dubai) 2014 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The waiter is written male, but could easily become a waitress. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch with a simple (indicative) restaurant setting. |
Synopsis | Snow White and Cinderella meet for the first time in years and talk about their husbands, but soon notice a startling similarity. It's no fairy tale, but things get worse when Sleeping Beauty pops in to tell them about her new man... |
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A Christmas Carol by Andrew Yates Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 43. Chorus. Flexible cast - several scenes require lots of extras, many with speaking parts. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano and vocal scores for seven original songs are provided with the producer's copy of the script. (The script also suggests the use of the carol 'God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen') |
Style | Adaptation of Dickens classic tale of redemption as a musical play. |
Synopsis | On Christmas eve, miser Ebenezer Scrooge receives a visit from the ghostly apparition of his former business partner, Jacob Marley. Marley's ghost is followed by three more spectral visitors, who show visions of Scrooge's past present and future in an effort to show the old skinflint the error of his 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
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Cinderella [Version 10] by Warren McWilliams Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 22. Chorus. Chorus size variable at Producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 93 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Song suggestions for 15 songs are supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full length traditional pantomime, with various settings. |
Synopsis | Working hard every day for her rude stepsisters and mean stepmother, Cinderella has a tough life. But when she meets the Prince in the forest one day, both their lives are changed forever... |
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Give Us A Sign by Tony Domaille Best Seller NODA South West Best Comedy nomination 2022. Octopus, Thornbury. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One (gender non-specific) character is voice-only and could be pre-recorded. |
Run Time | Around 107 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length comedy on a single (dining room) set. |
Synopsis | Ken is out of work and decides he will become a clairvoyant to make money. How hard could it be? What he doesn’t reckon on is MI5, the Russians and the Americans all wanting to use his skills to contact a dead scientist who has secrets they all need. |
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Hood by Geoff Bamber Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] Plus additional time for songs and dances. |
Music | Production notes list recommended songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Not a true British Pantomime (lacks, for example, the ritual audience participation and pantomime dame), but contains many of the ingredients - plenty of jokes and extravagant characters. |
Synopsis | The Sheriff of Nottingham has taken over Loxley Manor and plans to marry Marian. Prince John is coming to the wedding, together with his personal assistant and a passing bishop. Robin Hood assembles his Merry Men but with unexpected plans. |
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Who Framed the Easter Bunny? by Warren McWilliams Best Seller |
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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