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Charlotte Holmes - Future Detective by Richard James
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| 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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| Cheer Up, Santa! by Helen Spencer |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 35. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of this script contains suggestions for seven songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act musical Christmas ensemble play for schools |
| Synopsis | It's Christmas Eve, and the elves are hurriedly making last minute preparations before Santa sets off on his deliveries. Mrs Claus, however, finds he is thoroughly miserable, and doesn’t feel like bothering this year. The elves need to think of a plan to make Santa change his mind, and time is running out! |
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| Christmas Around the World by Andrew Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 31. Chorus. Designed for one school class, but there is the flexibility to include a larger chorus (or choruses), particulary for the songs, so could be a larger cast. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The script contains lyrics for the 8 songs (mainly set to well-known music). There is no score, so productions will need the backing CD. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Exuberant Christmas musical piece for kids - entirely for fun, with no educational value. (If you are looking for an educational piece on the way Christmas is actually celebrated around the world, look away now!) |
| Synopsis | A whirlwind tour around the world for the sole purpose of celebrating Christmas in a bunch of different musical styles! |
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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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| The Christmas Carol [Version 4] by Anthony Paul Lashley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. The number of carol singers is unspecified. The author suggests (but does not insist) that when Scrooge is reformed, he might be played by a different actor to emphesise the change! Something for productions to play with. |
| Run Time | Around 57 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Lyrics to a number of (out-of-copyright) carols are embedded in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act play with songs. Multiple locations, but indicated by lighting and furniture rather than full-stage sets. |
| Synopsis | Dickens' Christmas tale of redemption is given a little comic twist and run at a smarter pace, but still delivers the required moral lesson along with the laughs. |
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A Christmas Cracker by Andrew Yates
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. More chorus members may be added in - at Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions for 7 songs are included with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act, Christmas variety show, suitable for schools - children aged 5 to 12. |
| Synopsis | A lighthearted Christmas-themed show for children with singing, snow and comedy in roughly equal measure. |
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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
** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
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| Christmas Spirit - The Conversion of Mrs Scrooge by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Very flexible cast, including non-speaking reindeer. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script contains suggestions for six songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Light Christmas play for (up to a class of) kids, conflating various stories! Opportunities for up to six songs. |
| Synopsis | The Spirit of Christmas Past, Present and Future (the other two are sick, so he's doing all three) tries to get the grim Mrs Scrooge into the spirit of Christmas, but it takes a lot of jokes and a visit from Santa and his wife to bring her round. |
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| Cinderella's Beanstalk by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming pantomime mixing folk tales. |
| Synopsis | A wonderful rhyming collision of Jack and the Beanstalk and Cinderella, with an unexpected but happy ending for everyone except the no-so Charming Prince. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Cinderella's Grumpy Turkey by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. Variable chorus size at Producer's discretion (non-speaking roles). |
| Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act rhyming panto-style play. |
| Synopsis | Wesley, a particularly Grumpy Turkey, is dispatched to Cinderella to be fattened for Christmas dinner, but Wesley is clearly not happy to be the dinner! Captain Hook, Piratical guests, and even Abanaza too, are invited to the Palace for Christmas, but the sisters - being far from elegant, are not to be suited. However, it turns out lucky for Wesley that the Genie can concoct a better recipe for success. |
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| Cinderella's Sisters... Happy Ever After? by Mark Billen |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Variable chorus size at Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 92 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A two act play (not a pantomime), for school-aged actors, with simple staging. |
| Synopsis | In this sequel to Cinderella we see how the ugly sisters fare in their attempts to emulate their sister - who is now happily married to her handsome prince. Their brother-in-law is determined to rid the kingdom of their nastiness and some visiting pirates help him to achieve his aims! |
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| Cleopatra and the Roman Way by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. No formal chorus, but opportunities for extras. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy play for kids. A solid grounding in ancient history, but it's comedy, so there are plenty of anachronisms. |
| Synopsis | When the glamorous Queen Cleopatra takes over the throne of Egypt along with her brother Ptolemy XIII it coincides with the expansion of the Roman Republic (soon to be Empire) in her direction. Cleopatra does not find the advances of a succession of stylish Romans entirely unwelcome, even if her brother has to be disposed of in the process. Unfortunately, Roman politics being what they are, none of her suitors can be viewed as having any long-term prospects. |
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