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Adventures of Oliver Twist by David Pemberton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. 16 speaking parts, plus an unspecified number of Urchins, playable by a company of 10 with a lot of doubling (and probably some rapid costume changes). |
Run Time | Around 77 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A new, humourous adaptation, in two acts, of Dickens' classic novel. |
Synopsis | The story of an orphan boy who runs away from a workhouse and lives with a gang of pickpockets before being rescued by a kind gentleman and an unexpectedly close relation. This is Oliver with a modern Twist. |
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Bardell versus Pickwick by Malcolm Seymour |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length comedy play. Single period (1830s) set. |
Synopsis | Members of the Pickwick Club, re-enact their founder's legal altercation with his landlady, Mrs Bardell. Faithfully adapted from The Pickwick Papers, this hilarious romp highlights the Dickens' well-known dislike of the legal profession, with topical sideswipes at the modern 'no win - no fee' culture. |
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The Brilliance in the Room by Phil Porter |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 105. No chorus. An ensemble piece designed for a cast of 12 or more, each playing multiple roles. |
Run Time | Around 102 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length sweep of Dickensian vignettes, with an ensemble of actors playing multiple characters. No specific set, but props are manipulated to convey locations. |
Synopsis | A dreamlike convergence of Dickens’ characters and situations swirl about the stage, in a celebration of the author’s works. |
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Charles Dickens' Christmas Eve by Wende Feller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. One of the male characters is a child. The script has a cast of 18, but divided across the two acts so that the cast of 9 from the first act can double to perform the second act. |
Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | A series of Christmas Carols is recommended in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Two act period piece. Single set with split-level stage. |
Synopsis | The first act focuses on Christmas at Bracebridge Hall, adapted from material by Washington Irving, Jane Austen and Wilkie Collins. The second act is Wende Feller's adaptation of 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens |
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The Chimes by Christopher Brechypt |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 107 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length adaptation of Charles Dickens' festive novella (no, the other one). An engaging story, full of the social critique you'd expect from Dickens. |
Synopsis | The elderly porter Toby Veck is struggling to make ends meet. One New Year's Eve, he shows kindness to an accused vagrant and his young daughter, inviting them into his household. But he then meets with a fatal accident. Goblins show him what becomes of his impoverished family seven years later - as well as an alternative, happier New Year. |
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A Christmas Carol [Version 3] by Michael Morton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 37. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 88 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's copy of the script suggests a series of carols to be sung during the show. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full-length play adapted from the classic novel by Charles Dickens. |
Synopsis | On the night of Christmas Eve, the miserly and embittered Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by a series of ghosts. |
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A Christmas Carol by Andrew Yates Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 43. Chorus. Flexible cast - several scenes require lots of extras, many with speaking parts. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano and vocal scores for seven original songs are provided with the producer's copy of the script. (The script also suggests the use of the carol 'God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen') |
Style | Adaptation of Dickens classic tale of redemption as a musical play. |
Synopsis | On Christmas eve, miser Ebenezer Scrooge receives a visit from the ghostly apparition of his former business partner, Jacob Marley. Marley's ghost is followed by three more spectral visitors, who show visions of Scrooge's past present and future in an effort to show the old skinflint the error of his ways. |
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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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Mr Micawber Down Under by David Barry |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Five narrating voices also have numerous character roles. |
Run Time | Around 135 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Five musical pieces are suggested in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full length play with various (simple) settings. |
Synopsis | In this Dickens spin-off, the Micawber family find themselves in Australia, where Mr Micawber's incorrigible optimism continues - he is sure that something will turn up. In many twists and turns the story, assisted by innovative narration here and there, unfolds - as the family, pursued by creditors finally sails into the sunset, convinced that something will turn up in New Zealand. |
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A Savoy Christmas Carol by Nigel Holloway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 32. Chorus. The main characters are adults, with a smattering of children. |
Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | A Piano and Vocal score for all the 27 songs (with 22 orchestral pieces scored for multiple instruments) is provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. The scores have deliberately kept away from extremes of vocal range. |
Style | Operetta, setting the Charles Dickens story to the music of Arthur Sullivan. |
Synopsis | A traditional re-telling of Dickens' classic story of the redemption of a miser, using pieces from many of Gilbert and Sullivan's musicals with original lyrics. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Additional copy of the Piano and Vocal Score for 'A Savoy Christmas Carol' in an A4 ring binder. Scores for 29 songs and 22 (orchestrated) instrumentals. (This is the same as the copy provided with the Producer's Copy of the script.)
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