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| Hornet Girl by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. Chorus. The chorus is not essential, but the numbers of soldiers and peasants is flexible, particularly if music is to be incorporated in the production. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act comedy for kids. Nominally two sets, but no specific requirements for either. Whilst it isn't a musical, it would be possible for songs or dances to be incorporated (in one place, for example, it would give more time for a costume change.) |
| Synopsis | A poor family of tenant farmers is in danger of eviction by the cruel baron until a comic book super-hero turns up in the form of Hornet Girl. The Baron realises that wherever there are super-heroes, there are super-villains, and he sets out to get one on his side. Enter Kaptain Kruelty to do whatever is the opposite of saving the day... |
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| Humbug by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol presented as a short comedic play for kids. |
| Synopsis | When Jacob Marley dies he keeps his promise to come back and haunt his mean-spirited business partner, Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge has a particularly parsimonious attitude to Christmas and this reflects itself his treatment of his long-suffering employees, Bob and Molly Cratchit. In case Jacob's efforts to get Ebenezer to change his ways don't meet with success, he enlists the help of three ghostly friends. Will Christmas still be humbug or will Ebenezer see the light? |
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| I Love You When It's Raining, Roy G Biv by Martin R. Collin |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. The chorus covers a school class, a choir and a funeral congregation, so very flexible numbers!
The structure of the story implies a mixture of adults and children, but of course it could be performed by a youth company. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A couple of public domain songs are suggested for use in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act play with various simple settings. |
| Synopsis | Roy is that inspirational teacher everyone remembers. He arrives at a small school in Ohio and immediately makes a mark on every pupil he comes into contact with. His death is sudden and unexpected but his spirit lives on as his pupils move into adulthood. |
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| In the Lap of the Gods by Philip Bird (music Isabelle Michalakis) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. The characters are a class of schoolchildren, divided into four groups. Each group acts out Greek myths. Whilst some of the characters in the myths have a specific gender, this need not be the gender of the actor. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with scores for three original songs. Further dances can be added at the discretion of the production. |
| Style | One-act musical play for a full class of children, providing roles for all and an introduction to several Greek myths. |
| Synopsis | A group of children are shipwrecked on an island, and all they can find is a strange chest with a very odd collection of contents. The items inside help the children tell some old stories and keep up their spirits through the night until they are rescued the next day. |
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** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| Intelligent Life? by Peter Keel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A light comedy sketch, for youth ages. |
| Synopsis | A great day has dawned... and the members of the press are meeting a representative of a species from outer space! Sadly for them, the results are a little underwhelming. |
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| Invasion from Planet Zorgon by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] Plus additional time for songs and dances. |
| Music | Production notes list recommended music. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act play for kids. Single, simple set. Lots of strong characters, lots of comedy. |
| Synopsis | Aliens land in a sleepy American town - the usual sort of sleepy American town, populated by cowboys, sheriffs, super-heroes and the occasional pizza delivery man. |
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| It's A Panto Jim... But Not As We Know It by Andrew Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 33. No chorus. It's a panto - make your own mind up as to who plays what. Opportunity for three dame figures - cookie and the ugly sisters - plus seven dwarves four mice and a few other creatures. No formal chorus, but lots of minor roles. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for eight original songs are provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | British pantomime - in which the worlds of fairytale and TV science fiction collide, boldly going where no panto has gone before. |
| Synopsis | The crew of the Spaceship Centipede interrupt their hundred year mission to help the Seven Dwarfs wake Snow White and on the way they help Cinderella get the man of her dreams. Just another day on the final frontier, give or take the evil Queens and mice. |
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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
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| It's Christmas Time! by Sharon Stace-Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Flexible cast plus the option of a separate choir (otherwise choir pieces are sung by the acting ensemble.) |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] (Run time of the first production was 35 minutes!) |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with piano and vocal scores for the 9 songs plus optional overture and 8 pieces of incidental music. |
| Style | A musical nativity play for schools, with minimal staging requirements. |
| Synopsis | A lop eared donkey who wants to be a horse, sets the scene for this nativity play with a difference. |
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Jack and his Amazing Multi-Coloured Beanstalk by Geoff Bamber
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Though it is not specified in the script, Jack's Mother could be played by a Male (as a pantomime dame) and Jack could be played by a Female (as a panto principal boy). Cast includes a pantomime cow. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Simple English pantomime. Simple sets. Lots of strong characters, lots of comedy. |
| Synopsis | Jack's family are so poor that they must sell their treasured cow. Unfortunately they entrust the job to Jack, whose profit is a handful of beans. The result is a beanstalk and an attempt to rescue the kidnapped princess. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Jack and Jill by Susan Vesey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. An unusual set of characters, including two fairies, three ducks, innumerable ducklings and Dobin the pantomime horse. (The duckling roles in particular are suitable for younger children.) |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] Two act structure, but one act length. |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for six songs, including some new lyrics. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime - lots of running jokes for audience participation. Two-act structure but one-act in length! |
| Synopsis | Widow Winkle is unable to pay the rent to Baron Badbottom whose daughter, Jill, thinks Jack Winkle is really a prince and so wants to marry him. Unable to raise any funds, Jack tries to contact the Water Fairy he thinks lives in the well. Stan Winkle has, meanwhile, called on the Bag Fairy for help. But, the Baron has acquired the very last wish in the land, and they have to work out how to get it off him to make all their dreams come true. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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