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Androcles and the Lion by Peter Bond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. The chorus - of soldiers, slaves, Christians and lions - is optional. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short rhyming fable for kids. |
Synopsis | Androcles is a man who loves all living things - he's even reluctant to kill a lamb to feed himself. So when a lion appears, he's less worried about it eating his sheep and more concerned that there's a thorn in it's paw. Helping this lion turns out to be a good move in the long term... |
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The Ant Chant by Michal Y Noah Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Two original songs are included in this script. |
Style | A short rhyming musical play for children. |
Synopsis | A day in the life of an ant and their worker companions is told in musical rhyme. Adapted from the childrens' book of the same name. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Zip file containing recordings by Jonny Casto-Ardern of the two songs from 'The Ant Chant' by Michal Y Noah. The recordings come in two forms - simple backing tracks and vocal demos. Additionally, Song 2 has a demo recording of just the chant.
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Cagic Mup by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Characters include a pantomime cow. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fable told as a Spoonerising verse play for children. |
Synopsis | Captain Spoon's family are starving. Their cow must be sold. The exchange for a magic cup provokes delight and disaster. |
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The Cautionary Tale of Humpty Dumpty by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. No specific gender requirement. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A rhyming comedy monologue, with no set requirement. |
Synopsis | The bullying Humpty Dumpty meets his deserved end, as the narrator reveals how he - or she - pushed him off the wall and describes the subsequent rejoicing. |
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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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The Dancing Princesses by Peter Bond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. The numbers are very flexible. There are three speaking princesses, but this could be reduced to 2. However, there is scope for a much larger number of (non-speaking) princesses and an equal number of dancing princes. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Verse play, with some elements of panto, based on The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces or The Twelve Dancing Princesses (depending on which translation of the Brothers Grimm you prefer). Several locations, but no major set requirements. |
Synopsis | A King offers the usual rewards (marriageable daughter, bits of kingdom, that sort of thing) for anyone who can discover why each of his daughters ruin a pair of shoes every night. Enter a wounded soldier and a helpful old lady to solve the mystery. |
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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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A First Christmas In Rhyme by Aberuthven Primary School ed. Sue Gordon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 21. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of this script contains suggestions for nine traditional carols or hymns. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A rhyming nativity play for primary schools. |
Synopsis | A rhyming version of the traditional story of the first Christmas. |
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I'll See You In My Dreams by Michal Y Noah, songs by Stuart Ardern |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Very flexible casting, with songs (and associated actions) performed by members of a chorus. (In the original book, Hoppy was a rabbit - hence the name. That is assumed to be the case, though it need not be!) |
Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano & Vocal scores for 4 songs by Stuart Ardern are supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | Short musical play for young children with flexible casting and minimal staging requirements. (Derived from Michal Y Noah's book of the same name, conceptualized by Loren Noah.) |
Synopsis | Hoppy doesn't want to go to bed because she's afraid that she'll have nightmares. Her mother makes Hoppy's dreams something to look forward to. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
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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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