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| Who Killed Cock Robin? by Sue Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act (but a fairly long act) comedy for kids. Single (courtroom) set. |
| Synopsis | Never mind all the birds of the air sighing and sobbing when they heard of the death of poor cock robin - what happened when the case came to court? |
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| Who The Devil Did It? by Carol Hill and Anna Heppner |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 34. Chorus. A large cast piece. Most of the characters are written male, but some could easily be switched without changing the nature of the piece. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with sheet music for 7 original songs plus instrumental interludes. Snatches of other songs are suggested. |
| Style | Full-length musical comedy for juniors/teenagers. |
| Synopsis | Two brothers, who are a little down on their luck, stumble onto a big art theft and end up deeply involved in the search for the stolen painting, the thief and the fabulous missing Mona Lisa to boot! |
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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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The Wicked Witch & The Magic Shop by William Arnold Ashbrook
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. The cast includes cats and gremlins. Gladys could be played as a pantomime dame. |
| Run Time | Around 97 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script comes with the scores for 11 original songs (plus five reprises). |
| Style | A musical family show with opportunities for audience participation (therefore occupying a theatrical space close to British Pantomime). |
| Synopsis | Graveling, the evil witch, has turned a number of good people into life size dolls and cats. The young heroes, enlist the help of the owners of the Magic Shop and Marlin the decrepit magician, and together they manage to defeat the witch and her gremlin helpers. |
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The Willow Tree by Geoff Bamber
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. Zhongwen's soldiers, are the chorus (in the sense of having indefinite numbers) but are non-speaking.
[As far as I can remember, this is the only story in which the hero is an accountant.] |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Humorous one-act play for kids, based on the legend of The Willow Pattern Plate. Multiple settings but minimal sets. |
| Synopsis | When Renshu the merchant finds himself seriously in debt to the fierce Island Traders, he decides to marry off his daughter Mingmei to the entirely disagreeable but extremely rich landowner Zhongwen. But Mingmei is in love with Chang, her father’s humble accountant. Mingmei and Chang flee to a remote island but soon Zhongwen, Renshu and the Island Traders are heading for the same island. Can Renshu's inventive servant, Ping, and the sorceress Li Hua give the course of true love a fighting chance? |
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| Willy Wonga by Connie Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. 20 roles, though most are gender non-specific and can be doubled. |
| Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short modernised adaptation of A Christmas Carol, in rhyming form. |
| Synopsis | The tale of A Christmas Carol brought up to date and presented in a rhyming form, starring Willy Wonga, the unrepentant Payday Lender who's keen to get every last penny out of everybody he meets. Until, that is, this Christmas night... |
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| Wilma Tell - The Swiss Miss by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. Eleven speaking parts and an unspeaking chorus of unspeakable townsfolk. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comic twisting for kids of the Swiss sixteenth century legend. A one-act play in length, though structurally in three acts. |
| Synopsis | Wilma Tell and her brother Johann travel to the prosperous Swiss town of Altdorf to make their fortunes. Unfortunately their arrival coincides with that of the forces of an expanding Austrian Empire, represented by the cruel Governor Gessler. Wilma, more by accident than design, soon finds the whole town depending on her to resist Gessler's attentions. |
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| A Wiser Miser by Giles Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Two songs are suggested in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act verse play. The staging, as presented, may be slightly complex, but the Producer's Copy of the script includes a couple of alternatives for simplification. |
| Synopsis | The miser in question, is, of course, Ebenezer Scrooge, as this is a rhyming version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. |
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| Witchwood by Mark Rudd |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 15. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 31. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with suggestions for seven songs plus a simple piano score for an overture. |
| Style | Darkly comic fantasy for a (mixed-age) company of kids. A world of goblins, elves and talking trees. |
| Synopsis | Would you go down to the woods today?
Hannah is trying to evade some bullies when she runs into the Wood and finds she can't get out. Befriended by a woodcutting Goblin and pursued by witches, Hannah has to cope with some very trying times before she can find her way home.
I talk to the trees and in this case, they answer! |
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| Wolf 'n the Hood by George Douglas Lee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. The wolf and three pigs are nominally male, but since they are a wolf and three pigs, it doesn't really matter that much! |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act court-room comedy for kids. Whilst this is a richly comic fantasy drama, it is also meant as an introduction to courtroom procedure! |
| Synopsis | The Big Bad Wolf is in the dock, accused of sheepnapping, and Bo Peep is determined to get a conviction. Can Red Riding Hood save her client despite their shared history? |
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The Wolf Who Cried Boy by George Douglas Lee
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. A mixture of real and fairy tale characters. Aimed at a family audience. Could be played by children, by adults or by a mixture of adults and children. (There, who does that leave out?) |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for 8 original songs are provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. (Part of the 'Master Scripts for Copying' and 'Performance Set of Scripts' packages.) |
| Style | Musical play in one act. |
| Synopsis | The Big Bad Wolf is past his prime and has no respect from anyone. He wishes he could be a little boy, a human boy, but when the wish is granted he finds life as a boy isn't the idyll he'd been hoping for. |
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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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