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| Like You've Never Seen It Before by Christine Harvey & Elisha Lee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 37. Chorus. 12 speaking parts, the rest mime. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Minimum set. Simple props. Intended as a junior school full-class play. Opportunities for mime, improvisation and dance. |
| Synopsis | Jo and Mel are trying to write a play for their school, but, unknown to them, they are being fought over by a muse and Professor Block, the personification of writer's block. Unfortunately for the professor, he is in entirely the wrong place. |
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| Lil Diamond The Snake Woman by Linda Stephenson and Alison Hudson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 37 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play-within-a-play for children. A story with a moral - and a puppet! |
| Synopsis | Clem and his family have moved to California in 1886, and he’s missing his friends. He meets the strange snake woman when she rescues him from a Diamondback, but local prejudice stops him visiting her until his mother falls sick and he needs help. A puppet snake helps tell the story. |
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| Little Bigfoot by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 13. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 24. No chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children, assumed to be played by children. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Complete set of original sheet music and lyrics supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Two-act musical play set in an American summer camp (simple outdoor sets). |
| Synopsis | Camp Log-off is a summer camp for kids who need to be weaned off their computer habit. The camps owners are bankrupt and looking for ways of supplementing their income - what could be better than the reward for capturing a Bigfoot, which is rumoured to be in their area? |
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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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| Little Donkey by Dominique Vaughan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 27. Minimum total without doubling = 36. Chorus. Characters include a donkey (obviously) and lots of other animals. Flexibility for more non-speaking (but singing) chorus members. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 9 songs to accompany the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Children's nativity play. |
| Synopsis | A charming and refreshing retelling of the nativity story. The old donkey uses flashbacks to tell the children about his younger days and his part in the events of the very first Christmas. The nativity happenings unfold before us as all of the customary human and animal characters come to life with lots of opportunity for children of all abilities to take part. There is even the prospect of a comedy double act as the chickens get into their stride. |
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| A Little Elfin Magic by Donna Brightwell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Whilst some of the characters are written as male or female, this is largely a matter of personal pronouns, so the script can easily be adjusted to accommodate anything from ten boys through to ten girls. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act (well, technically two acts, but of one-act play length!) secular Christmas play. Aimed at junior school children, but could enjoyably be played for laughs by older groups! |
| Synopsis | It's September and the Elves in Santa's toy workshop are in a spot of bother - they've only just woken up after their New Year Party and they have three months to make a year's worth of toys. Worse still, could the new department member be a spy? |
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| Little King Arthur by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. Most of the roles are written male, but most school productions will overcome this where necessary! |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act school play, designed for simple staging. |
| Synopsis | Young Arthur is a ward at the school of Camelot, where Kay shines as the brightest pupil, not least because his father is the Principal. But Arthur's destiny is to rule, and even nepotism cannot stand in destiny's way. |
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The Little Red Hen by Gerald P. Murphy
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. A narrator, a bunch of barnyard fowl and a fox! Whilst there isn't a chorus specified, it would be easy to increase the flock! |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Producer's copy of the script includes piano/vocal scores for seven simple songs (including reprises). |
| Style | A simple musical for young children, based on a familiar story! |
| Synopsis | It's pizza time in the barnyard, and as usual Peggy Pullet is doing all the work. The rest of the fowl are happy to let her - until they get a harsh lesson in the shape of a wily fox. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| Little Red Riding Wolf by Debbie Linton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy for children. Several settings, but needs only a few pieces of furniture. And wolves. |
| Synopsis | A very different take on the old story of Red Riding Hood, where Red is actually one of three wolves released into the wild, and eventually befriended and cared for by Scarlet and her family. |
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| The Little Rose by Leon E. Scioscia & Sheri Fink |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. One (human) gardener, plus roses, weeds, bluebirds and bees. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A play for (an audience of) children, set in a garden.
Could be performed by children or a mixed age company performing for younger children.
Adapted from Sheri Fink's US best-selling children's book of the same name. |
| Synopsis | Little Rose has been separated from her friends in the rose garden and finds herself in the adjacent weed patch, consequently finding herself different from the weeds.
The play explores the concept of difference amongst children and gives strategies for overcoming the difficulties children have in dealing with feeling different. |
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| A Load of Rubbish - Musical by Sue Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. The characters described as 'a few small pieces of fruit and veg' play a chorus role. Their numbers are very flexible. The characters are inanimate objects, so gender is flexible! |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for eight original songs are supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | One-act large-cast musical (probably a whole school class) for kids. A comedy with a strong ecological message. Little in the way of set or props - mostly characters instead of props! (The Producer's copy of the script includes costume suggestions!) |
| Synopsis | Life on an overspill rubbish dump takes a philosophical turn, with items of garbage asking 'why are we here?' - and making a song and dance about it! |
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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
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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