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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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| 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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| Love by John Collings |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. The chorus of dancers is optional. |
| Run Time | Around 44 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act romantic comedy drama with a single multi-functional set. |
| Synopsis | A young girl dreams of finding real love and breaking away from her dominant mother. |
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| Love Blossoms by Tony Best |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy playlet with a single, simple setting. |
| Synopsis | Two house plants come to life as their jealousies come to the fore and they vie for the attentions of keen gardener - Mr Phil. The compost heap beckons for one of them... |
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| The Love Clinic by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. One character is a voice-over, so could be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute comedy play. Single set (simple office), simple props. |
| Synopsis | Welcome to The Love Clinic, a dating agency which will solve all your relationship problems - or so the nervous Steven hopes... |
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| Love Is Blind by Andrew Bawn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. 1 necessary gender non-specific character and 2 or more optional characters. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch on a simple set. |
| Synopsis | Gary and April meet on a blind date in a restaurant. There is an age gap between them, and they quickly realise they are not well matched. |
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| Love's Labour's Lost [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A 60-minute abridgement of the Shakespeare comedy.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but, because all the words are Shakespeare's and therefore out of copyright, performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | Ferdinand, King of Navarre, has decided that he and his court will devote three years to an ascetic life of studying, fasting, and forswearing the company of women. However, he has forgotten that the Princess of France and her retinue are due to visit. So, will the court pursue asceticism or pretty women? |
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| Lucky Balls by Louise Roche |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. The chorus is optional (bar staff and band members). The script includes an on-stage band. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggested songs (titles only) are embedded in the script. These are intended to be played by the on-stage band. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length comedy play. Single set (with various locations within a wedding reception indicated by lighting and set dressing). Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Nine wedding guests are the victims of a really bad seating plan. They try to get along, then one suggests they chip in to buy a lottery ticket. When they win all their masks slip away to reveal who they really are. The poor maitre d' tries to keep the reception on track but in the end he can only watch as relationships unravel. |
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| Lucky Break by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short sketch with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | A coffee break for four, or something more? |
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| Madame Skoodle's Noodles And The Poodle Doodle by Erica Glenn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Twelve human characters plus a show dog! |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A surreal comedy that requires almost no set with a witty and fast paced dialogue. |
| Synopsis | There's a news report that Noodles the Poodle has been found dead, just before he was supposed to win the big Poodle Doodle competition. Who killed him? There's a regular parade of suspects, but is Noodles really dead? |
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| The Magic Carpet by Andrew Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Family entertainment, designed to fill a similar slot to a British panto (but not sharing all the features of pantomime - more story and less 'variety show'). |
| Synopsis | Ahmed, the Great Mufti of Itsnothatabad, is an old style Middle Eastern potentate whose main aim in life is to out-do his cousin Faisal, particularly when it comes to their wealth and wives. With a visit from Faisal imminent, Ahmed is determined to trump his cousin once and for all with a special new addition to his harem. Tired of brown-eyed beauties with dark hair he sends his hapless servant Saleem on a quest for a blue-eyed blonde. A magic carpet comes to Saleem's rescue and transports him to modern day London but the bombshell he returns with has no intention of fitting into Ahmed's plans. His life is turned upside down in this comedy of sexes and cultures with consequences he could never have imagined. |
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