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| Billionaire School by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for ten original songs is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Simple musical for kids - an excuse to dip into a few historical topics! |
| Synopsis | Billionaire Gil Bates is a smart man when it comes to computers, but has trouble with remembering basic history and culture. He and his wife hatch a plan: combine a group of teachers and Gil's love of musical theatre, and present some of history's greatest moments in musical form! |
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** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| Billy Goat Gruff - Play by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. 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. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Simple play for young children. Basic stage set (a bridge!). Costumes, but no props. |
| Synopsis | Overweight goats meet greedy troll. The troll's dinner menu changes when Billy Goat butts in. |
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| The Billy Goats Gruff by Sharon Stace-Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Chorus. Seven principals plus narrator and chorus. The script allows for multiple narrators, a chorus of courtiers and villagers and possibly an additional choir - thus the numbers are very flexible. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with piano and vocal scores for an overture and 14 original songs (including a couple of reprises). |
| Style | One-act musical - rhyming script plus songs - for kids (and children!). Multiple locations, but can be done with minimal scenery and very few props. |
| Synopsis | The time-honoured tale of troll meets goats given an additional twist as we learn of the history of how the troll became what he is (and the goats have more talents than just butting-in). |
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** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| The Bird, the Mouse and the Sausage by Peter Nuttall |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute play for kids. |
| Synopsis | A tale of domestic bliss upset - with a moral message about the dangers of fire.
One of Peter Nuttall's Grimm Tales (for Little Horrors) |
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| Bite-Size - Six Vampire Plays by 10 x 10 Writers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Three or four characters per piece. |
| Run Time | Around 37 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Collecton of six sketches, generally comedic, but with the occasional sharp edge. |
| Synopsis | A collection of six short plays/sketches for teenagers with the theme of vampires. (All the plays are available individually, but are provided here as a collection at a discount.) |
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| Bl... Bl... Bluebeard by Mark Billen |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. All characters are adults, intended to be played by children or by a mix of adults and children. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comic dramatisation of the Bluebeard legend (owing more to Offenbach's opera than to Perrault's fairy tale). Three sets, simple props. |
| Synopsis | Duke Bluebeard lives in a grim castle and is feared by all. No one really knows what dark things happen in his castle. Having disposed of wife number five Bluebeard decides that Boulotte, the local May Queen will be his next wife, little knowing what he has let himself in for! Presenting his new wife at the court of King Bobeche and Queen Hortensia he spies their daughter Princess Marie and immediately decides that she shall be wife number seven. He orders his personal inventor, Popolani, to make the arrangements and proceeds to the palace. Challenged to a duel Bluebeard apparently kills Marie's fiancé, Prince Bruno, and demands the princess's hand in marriage. Suddenly Boulotte and Bluebeard's previous wives reappear and confront him. |
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| Blond by Rob Wellington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Characters are all adults, but suitable for a teenage cast. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy comes with sheet music (piano and vocals) for 13 songs. |
| Style | Small-cast comedy musical, packed with manic zaniness. Few staging requirements, but some interesting sound effects (head struck by frying pan, that sort of thing). Includes mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Jackson Bligh isn't quite the brilliant detective he thinks he is, but he undertakes the job of safeguarding James Blond's amazing recipe from the dreaded Morticia De Bauch. She's in league with James' sister, and it'll take a miracle to save the world... |
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** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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Blood by Nettie Baskcomb Brown
Original production won the Best Youth, Best Dramatic Endeavour, Best Youth Actor awards at the Harold Joliffe One Act Play Festival, 2013 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Flexible numbers provided by a chorus of clots! |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A highly original one-act play for kids, tackling a serious subject through comedy and delivering a lot of educational material about the body's circulatory system.
[Revised 2021] |
| Synopsis | Follow Porphy and Alpha, two young blood cells, who have to learn to deal with all that the human body throws at them. With the help of their family of red blood cells, a team of platelets known as the Clots and two pugilistic white cells, Luke and O'Cyte, these youngsters experience fry ups, a gym workout, a night on the town resulting in traumatic injury and a holiday in the sun! |
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| Blushes by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short youth theatre drama about shyness. Two sets, but both needed only in outline, so minimum scenery and simple props. |
| Synopsis | Jon is shy and easily embarrassed, especially around girls. He's unable to control his terrible blushing, and his friends tease him about it. Then one magical night he meets a special girl who gives him some simple, but life-changing advice. |
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| Bobbin and the Travellers by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Humorous fantasy, minimal sets. |
| Synopsis | The town is terrorised by the evil witch, Phlegma. So great is the fear that the Mayor and town council take the drastic step of sealing off the town, and appoint the hapless Bobbin to the post of Guardian of the Mystic Pathway (the road to town). Enthusiastically assisted by Skank, best friend and village idiot, all goes well for Bobbin until a motley band of travellers turn up, keen to get to the safety of town, not least as they have just had a run-in with Phlegma. Can the evil witch be thwarted? Can Bobbin become a hero? Surely the diverse talents of Captain Scramble, Miss Marcia Thesp, the Pied Piper of Hamelin and the mighty Valgar, Dragon Slayer will be more than a match for Phlegma. Don't count on it. |
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