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Did The Butler Do It? by Debbie Chalmers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 14. Minimum total with doubling = 32. Minimum total without doubling = 32. Chorus. Extra chorus members can be added. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Song suggestions for 13 songs are provided with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A comedy (with songs) for children, in simple settings. |
Synopsis | Lady Jemima Fitzwilliam's valuable pearls have been stolen! This looks like a job for aged amateur sleuth Mrs Clues, but does Jeeves the butler know something important which can shed light on the subject? |
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The Easter Egg Hunt by Sue Russell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. Characters include nine fowl and an Easter bunny (offering plenty of opportunity for mask- or costume-making!) Beyond that, the cast is very flexible (basically written for a class-sized group). |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] (Assuming the suggested songs are used) |
Music | Suggestions for critter-themed songs are made in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Comedy play for young children, with corny jokes and opportunities for songs and dances. |
Synopsis | The Easter Bunny (or Funny Bunny) tries to help out poor Clumsy Chicken who has smashed all her eggs in a nasty fall and is facing the chop... well, the roasting dish. Other feathered friends flock around to help or hinder the effort with a few jokes and songs. |
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The Elf and the Shoemaker by Peter Nuttall |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen-minute play for kids. |
Synopsis | A shoemaker and his wife are amazed to find that their work is being completed for them whilst they are asleep at night. An investigation follows! One of Peter Nuttall's Grimm Tales (for Little Horrors) |
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The Elves and the Shoemaker [Verse Play] by Peter Bond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Characters include two elves. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short rhyming play. Single set (mainly a workbench). |
Synopsis | A Grimm Fairytale brought to the stage. An honest cobbler is helped to make ends meet by a pair of hard-working elves. |
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The Farmer and the Charuba Seeds by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short contemporary fable for children. No set requirements. A few simple props. Designed to be played on its own or as part of a broader entertainment. |
Synopsis | A farmer tries to eke out a living from the land, whilst everyone around him believes that they know better. |
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Green For Ever and Longer by Raymond Blakesley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. Whilst some of the characters have specific genders (queen bee, for example), since they are insects and microbes, the gender of the actors is no crucial! Flexible chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play for children. Single, minimal set, few props. |
Synopsis | As Queen Bee Honey and her Minibeast subjects celebrate in memory of Sir Turnham Green, who saved their wood from developers, two strangers arrive. They have a strange request, but unknown to everyone they've also brought danger into the woods. |
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Grimm Tales - For Little Horrors by Peter Nuttall |
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Gruff - The Musical by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The troll is nominally male. One male goat and two female goats. The narrators are elves. (The elves could be played by two choruses - the mode of narration is song!) |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for two songs (one reprised three times) are supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. |
Style | Very short musical play for kids. Single set - a troll bridge. |
Synopsis | Overweight goats meet greedy troll. The troll's dinner menu changes when Billy Goat butts in. |
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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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Hamelin Rats - The Musical by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. Flexibility for choruses of children, rats and cats. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for six original songs (plus the piper's tune) supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. |
Style | Short one-act musical for kids. The story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin told as a simple verse play with six songs. Minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | Rats are taking over the rich town of Hamelin, so when an eccentrically dressed stranger offers to drive them away, the Mayor offers to heap him with gold. However, when the rats have disappeared, so has the Mayor's promise, till the stranger reminds the town of his musical prowess. |
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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 ** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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A History Lesson for Turkey Boy by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play for young children - a simple history of the Thanksgiving festival. No set or props required. |
Synopsis | Mr Corn, Mrs Sweet Potato, Mrs Pumpkin and Mrs Squash make sure the young Misses Apples and especially Turkey Boy know their History before Thanksgiving is celebrated. |
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