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The Willow Tree by Geoff Bamber Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. Zhongwen's soldiers, are the chorus (in the sense of having indefinite numbers) but are non-speaking. [As far as I can remember, this is the only story in which the hero is an accountant.] |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Humorous one-act play for kids, based on the legend of The Willow Pattern Plate. Multiple settings but minimal sets. |
Synopsis | When Renshu the merchant finds himself seriously in debt to the fierce Island Traders, he decides to marry off his daughter Mingmei to the entirely disagreeable but extremely rich landowner Zhongwen. But Mingmei is in love with Chang, her father’s humble accountant. Mingmei and Chang flee to a remote island but soon Zhongwen, Renshu and the Island Traders are heading for the same island. Can Renshu's inventive servant, Ping, and the sorceress Li Hua give the course of true love a fighting chance? |
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Willy Wonga by Connie Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. 20 roles, though most are gender non-specific and can be doubled. |
Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short modernised adaptation of A Christmas Carol, in rhyming form. |
Synopsis | The tale of A Christmas Carol brought up to date and presented in a rhyming form, starring Willy Wonga, the unrepentant Payday Lender who's keen to get every last penny out of everybody he meets. Until, that is, this Christmas night... |
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Wilma Tell - The Swiss Miss by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. Eleven speaking parts and an unspeaking chorus of unspeakable townsfolk. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comic twisting for kids of the Swiss sixteenth century legend. A one-act play in length, though structurally in three acts. |
Synopsis | Wilma Tell and her brother Johann travel to the prosperous Swiss town of Altdorf to make their fortunes. Unfortunately their arrival coincides with that of the forces of an expanding Austrian Empire, represented by the cruel Governor Gessler. Wilma, more by accident than design, soon finds the whole town depending on her to resist Gessler's attentions. |
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A Wiser Miser by Giles Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Two songs are suggested in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | One-act verse play. The staging, as presented, may be slightly complex, but the Producer's Copy of the script includes a couple of alternatives for simplification. |
Synopsis | The miser in question, is, of course, Ebenezer Scrooge, as this is a rhyming version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. |
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Witchwood by Mark Rudd |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 15. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 31. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with suggestions for seven songs plus a simple piano score for an overture. |
Style | Darkly comic fantasy for a (mixed-age) company of kids. A world of goblins, elves and talking trees. |
Synopsis | Would you go down to the woods today? Hannah is trying to evade some bullies when she runs into the Wood and finds she can't get out. Befriended by a woodcutting Goblin and pursued by witches, Hannah has to cope with some very trying times before she can find her way home. I talk to the trees and in this case, they answer! |
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The Wizard of Oz [Version 2] by Adrian Barradell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Aunt Em is the pantomime dame role (so usually played by a man). The chorus is assumed to include a number of children (playing the Munchkins). |
Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | All songs are at the discretion of the production. Please note that this is not the MGM musical of the Wizard of Oz, and the music from that version can only be used with the MGM script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | English pantomime treatment of the L. Frank Baum Story. |
Synopsis | The classic and much-loved tale if Dorothy's trip to the land of Oz, and her quest to return to Kansas (with the help of Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion, and, of course, the Wizard of Oz) is given a panto spin while keeping the charm and (mostly!) the plot of the original. |
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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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The Wizard of Oz [Version 3] by J. Thaddeus Chesher |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 32. Minimum total without doubling = 40. Chorus. Variable chorus size at the Producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 103 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Song suggestions for 8 songs are included in the Producer's copy of the script. Please note that this is not the MGM musical of the Wizard of Oz, and the music from that version can only be used with the MGM script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full length pantomime with assorted settings. |
Synopsis | Subtitled 'The Amazing Adventures Of Dorothy Gale In The Middling Kingdom Of Oz', this show was originally produced at Beijing Playhouse, and the land of Oz seems to have gained a distinctively Chinese flavour. A refreshing new look at the old story, with many panto ingredients and characters, plus a talking Toto and an ever-present Aunt Em, the Dame character! A free pack of artwork and subtitles is available to go with the script. (Remarkably, this translates toto's Barking into English.) |
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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 ** Free Zip file containing artwork and subtitles for 'The Wizard of Oz [Version 3]' by J Thaddeus Cheshire. (Only for use with this script.)
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The Wizard that Was by Anne Bourke |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 40. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] Timing includes an estimate for 5 songs. |
Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains some suggestions for five songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one-act pantomime for schools. Uses parodies of L. Frank Baum characters in an original story. |
Synopsis | Thanks to the Wicked Witch's curse, Christmas in Happyville has been cancelled. It's down to Jack and Jenny to traverse the mountains and forest to reach the Wizard That Was and see if his magic can overcome the witch. |
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Wolf 'n the Hood by George Douglas Lee |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. The wolf and three pigs are nominally male, but since they are a wolf and three pigs, it doesn't really matter that much! |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act court-room comedy for kids. Whilst this is a richly comic fantasy drama, it is also meant as an introduction to courtroom procedure! |
Synopsis | The Big Bad Wolf is in the dock, accused of sheepnapping, and Bo Peep is determined to get a conviction. Can Red Riding Hood save her client despite their shared history? |
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The Wolf Who Cried Boy by George Douglas Lee Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. A mixture of real and fairy tale characters. Aimed at a family audience. Could be played by children, by adults or by a mixture of adults and children. (There, who does that leave out?) |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano and vocal scores for 8 original songs are provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. (Part of the 'Master Scripts for Copying' and 'Performance Set of Scripts' packages.) |
Style | Musical play in one act. |
Synopsis | The Big Bad Wolf is past his prime and has no respect from anyone. He wishes he could be a little boy, a human boy, but when the wish is granted he finds life as a boy isn't the idyll he'd been hoping for. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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