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| Murder at Peculiar Manor by Paul Mathews |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act murder mystery - a satisfactory plot, with twists and red herrings, but with tongue-in-cheek comedy thrown in. Contains very mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Dr Fincham certified that Lady Peculiar died of natural causes, but an Inspector is asking questions of the staff... What's the Maid's secret? Why was the will changed, and is it important that the apples are being stolen? |
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| Murder at the Murder Mystery Party by Geoff Parker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 64 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy thriller in two short acts and one (dining room) set. |
| Synopsis | Richard and Miranda's stormy marriage might reach some semblance of stability during a murder mystery party for their friends. Unfortunately tensions abound at the party and someone is actually murdered. |
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| Murder at the Music Hall by Laura Sanderson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Some suggestions for music and songs are made in the Producer's Copy of the script, though other period music could work just as well. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A melodramatic spoof of a country house murder mystery for a youth theatre company. Music Hall acts might be interspersed with the action! |
| Synopsis | The cast of the Music Hall are invited back to the manor house of their sponsor, Hector Clarkson. They are joined by most of the Clarkson family and a Duchess, but his Lordship is missing... until he is found murdered! Time to ask: Whodunnit? |
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| Murder at Twilight Gardens by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One (male) role is voice-only and can be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Four sprightly senior sleuths try to solve the murder that has taken place in their residential home, with the reluctant assistance of their Activities Supervisor. |
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| Murder Mansion by Don Lowry |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Whilst some of the characters have gender-specific names (because it's easier if characters have names), in the production notes alternatives are given - Bruce, for example, might be Brenda! |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy detective story for a high-school group. Single (barely-furnished old house) set. |
| Synopsis | Alex and Tabby are Private Detectives, and their latest case is really tricky, because the house they are supposed to be looking for clues in, is full of a movie crew rehearsing a horror film. Can they find the murderer and lost diamonds? |
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| Museum Pieces by Joan Greening |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An all female, one act comedy, with a single (museum staff room) setting. |
| Synopsis | The volunteer ladies are dismayed to find their museum is to be closed. Salvation arrives in a most surprising way. |
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| Musical Maurice and the History Hop by Cat Durning |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 34. Chorus. Thirteen principals (although the lead character could be played by three different actors) and scope for a large chorus (the original production employed three school classes!) |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script gives suggestions for three songs and various pieces of incidental music to accompany the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Time-travelling school play, Multiple locations but little needed in the way of stage furniture. (Locations indicated by music or acting!) |
| Synopsis | A child and a grandfather get sucked into a whirlwind history tour by a time-traveller with a magic wand. |
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| A Musical Mother Goose by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Very flexible cast size, with the option of a non-acting chorus singing the songs (or even different groups singing different songs). |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for 8 original songs is provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Musical play (a series of linked sketches) for young children. Minimal set requirements |
| Synopsis | This is 'Mother Goose' in the American sense - a vehicle for stories and rhymes, rather than the English sense of a particular story about a character called Mother Goose. (For anyone curious about this difference, the American sense is taken from Charles Perrault's collection of fairy stories 'Les Contes de ma mère l'Oye' - literally 'The Tales of my mother the Goose' whilst the English version is the tale of the Goose that laid the golden eggs - generally given the English pantomime treatment, for which see elsewhere on this site.)
Anyway, in this case it's a collection of original stories and songs based on nursery stories and characters. |
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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
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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| Musketeer by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] Plus additional time for songs and dances. |
| Music | Opportunities for songs and dances at the discretion of the producer. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act play for kids. Simple sets, varied characters, strong story line. |
| Synopsis | A comic take on the life of 17th Century France, with D'Artagnan and the Musketeers in the middle of a struggle for power between the King and the villainous Cardinal Richelieu. |
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| My Blue Heaven by Colin Calvert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, verging on farce. (The subject matter is directed at adults!) |
| Synopsis | Brian has used his redundancy money to fund a new business, and, as a result, he and his wife Melanie are Nouveau Riches. What Melanie doesn't know is that Brian's wealth comes from an offshoot of the photography club - providing videos for, shall we say, a specialist market. However, when the friends they invite round for dinner try to look at Brian and Melanie's holiday video, they get more than they bargained for... |
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