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Those Darn Vampires by Rollin Jewett
Published: 8 July 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. The characters are a mixture of adults and youth, but could well suit a youth theatre company. There's a party scene, which means that the numbers are very flexible. |
| Run Time | Around 108 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length comedy in a single set and US English. A fun mishmash of high school comedy with vampire myth. |
| Synopsis | When teenager Frankie is left home alone for a week, he inadvertently allows a trio of vampires to stay with him. When they show no signs of leaving, his friends start to 'change', and local pets begin to disappear, Frankie must call on a very unorthodox vampire slayer to help him out. |
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The Meaning of Christmas - Traditional Staging by Warren McWilliams
Published: 7 July 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 30. Minimum total without doubling = 38. Chorus. Nucleus of principals, various cameo roles and chorus of dancers. |
| Run Time | Around 58 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 11 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one-act Christmas show, presented for a conventional stage, with full-stage sets alternating with front-of-cloth scenes. [There is a separate version of the same story for promenade staging with a smaller cast.] |
| Synopsis | When Santa loses his Christmas spirit, Mrs Claus enlists some help. Guided by Santa's Helpers, the audience meets beloved festive characters including Rudolph, Frosty the Snowman and the Sugar Plum Fairy, and must search for the vital clues to uncover the Meaning of Christmas. |
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The Moop-La Hoop-La by Fiona and David Barker
Published: 3 July 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children, but intended to be played by children. Flexible chorus of classmates. |
| Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for children. The single set is split into three areas an requires only furniture (but quite a lot of props - because it's about material culture). |
| Synopsis | Mr Trillion's company makes toys, but he's only concerned with making money, so he pushes new toys as fast as he can. Dara can't keep up with the playground crazes, and eventually helps others see there's more to play than toys. |
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The Fourth King by David and Fiona Barker
Published: 2 July 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. The characters are mainly children, but there are a couple of adults - teacher and classroom assistant - who could be played either by children or by adults. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] The timing assumes the inclusion of 8 short songs. |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 8 Christmas songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A heartwarming story wound around the production of a school nativity play. Two sets but requiring only furninture. |
| Synopsis | Arthur is starting a new school the day before the Christmas show. He’s given the part of Fourth King, but doesn’t have a gift to bring the baby. In the end, the gifts he chooses help everybody out. |
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Jack and the Bean Folk by Anne Bourke
Published: 2 May 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 30. Minimum total without doubling = 34. No chorus. Characters include goats, two ends of a horse, trolls, a giant and four trees. (The trees are allowed to deliver wooden performances.) |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] Timing assumes the inclusion of 7 songs. |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 7 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime written for a school-aged company. Designed to be performed against a single countryside backdrop with a sign-bearer indicating specific locations. |
| Synopsis | Jack and all the villagers are being bankrupted by the high rents the Count McAsh is charging, but could beans really be the answer? As it turns out, they do help, but not in the way anyone was expecting. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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