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The Hound Of The Baskervilles by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. The hound might be live or a special effect. (One other essential role takes no part in the action, but definitely needs to be there!) |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act rhyming humorous play, freely interpreting the original story. |
Synopsis | A 'Pantocrime' in rhyming couplets, re-telling the story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, with comedy. |
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If Music be the Food of Love by Ethan Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Whilst all of the characters are written male, three could easily be played female (with minor name changes). |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen-minute verse play for kids. Two scenes, but no set requirements. |
Synopsis | A greedy and selfish king is taught the value of life by his caring son and a local musician. |
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A Journey to Oz by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. Lots of scope for choruses of munchkins, wolves, crows and bees! |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Rhyming (non-musical) version of L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz. Multiple locations, but can be staged as simply as necessary! |
Synopsis | A tornado plucks Dorothy Gale from Kansas and drops her and, more significantly (from the perspective of a tendancy to squish), her house, on top of a despised witch. Two quests follow (as do a scarecrow, a tin man and a lion), before she is able to return home. |
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The Lambton Worm by Timothy Hallett and Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. Very flexible casting. There is one narrator role, but this could be shared out. Equally, the chorus could be 'all the actors'. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | A 40-page musical score is included with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | Short musical retelling of an English folk tale. (The music plays throughout, even though some of the narration is spoken rather than sung.) No real set requirements, but the ideal performance would put some effort into creating a fearsome worm! |
Synopsis | The tale of the wild worm of Wearside and its grisly end. It should be emphasised that 'worm' is used in its old sense of 'serpent' - so this is a story of knights fighting dragons. |
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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 ** CD with backing track for the whole musical The Lambton Worm by Timothy Hallett and Nicholas Richards. Plus simple rehearsal tracks for each individual section (accompaniment on piano with vocal line played on another instrument.) ** Complete recording of The Lambton Worm by Timothy Hallett and Nicholas Richards including all songs and the spoken narration.
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Long Live Pantomime by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Rhyming monologue (no requirements for set or props). |
Synopsis | A brief introduction to the traditions of British pantomime. |
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The Princess and the Frog by Peter Bond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Two song suggestions are supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A short rhyming play. |
Synopsis | Spoilt Princess Gwendolen is not satisfied with her suitors, and the frog who turns into a handsome and eligible prince is no exception. He lives happily ever after - but what of the Princess? |
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Rhyming Christmas Gift by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. All characters are adults. (Except the elves.) Opportunity for a chorus as a choir of carol singers. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A simple verse play. Assumed to be done with minimal set - imagination substituting for scenery. Simple props. |
Synopsis | A liberal adaptation (updated and versified) of the O. Henry story 'The Gift of the Magi'. An arguing couple demonstrate their love through Christmas gifts. |
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Rhyming Treasure Island by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. More major female roles than the original tale. (It should be noted that female pirates were not unknown!) There is a chorus of three pirates which could be expanded to as many pirates are aboard your ship. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Rhyming comedy (with some of the characteristics of a British panto). |
Synopsis | Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of buried treasure adapted for the stage as a verse play. |
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Rhyming Wind in the Willows by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. Most of the characters are nominally male, but since they are clothed animals, who is to tell? |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Rhyming plays for a medium to large group of kids. Nominally six locations but no real set requirements. |
Synopsis | An accident on a caravanning expedition leaves the flighty Mr. Toad with an obsession with motor cars and inflated opinions of his own driving. Despite the attentions of his friends, Toad ends in jail and the stoats and weasels of the Wild Wood take over his house. After Toad escapes, Badger, Mole and the Water Rat set about recapturing Toad Hall. Kenneth Grahame's children's classic retold as a verse play. |
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The Scary Tale of Count Dracula of Transylvania by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short, rhyming Gothic horror comedy play for kids! |
Synopsis | Count Dracula has got dental problems - his once proud fangs are wearing down. Could dentures be the answer? |
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