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A Christmas Cracker by Andrew Yates Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. More chorus members may be added in - at Producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Song suggestions for 7 songs are included with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one act, Christmas variety show, suitable for schools - children aged 5 to 12. |
Synopsis | A lighthearted Christmas-themed show for children with singing, snow and comedy in roughly equal measure. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show ** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
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A Christmas Mouse by Susan Vesey |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Variable chorus size at the Producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Words for 8 of the 9 songs are provided with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A simple traditional nativity play, with chorus singing. |
Synopsis | A Christmas nativity variation, with carols, songs, and a mouse... Suitable for young children. |
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Christmas Spirit - The Conversion of Mrs Scrooge by Sue Russell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Very flexible cast, including non-speaking reindeer. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script contains suggestions for six songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Light Christmas play for (up to a class of) kids, conflating various stories! Opportunities for up to six songs. |
Synopsis | The Spirit of Christmas Past, Present and Future (the other two are sick, so he's doing all three) tries to get the grim Mrs Scrooge into the spirit of Christmas, but it takes a lot of jokes and a visit from Santa and his wife to bring her round. |
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Dangerous Dolls - The Battle for Santy's Toyshop by David Pemberton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of this script contains suggestions for 5 songs Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one act play suitable for all ages, with various settings and music. |
Synopsis | When the elves take over the toy shop and attempt to replace all the old-fashioned toys with clones of themselves, it is down to a group of rejected dolls to outwit them, and show Santy that they are worthy of a place in the front window. |
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Frank Sent This... by Aaron Warren |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 28. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Chorus size may vary |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] This allows for 17 songs or music pieces included |
Music | Mostly song suggestions with one original song and score provided with the Producer's copy. |
Style | A one act nativity comedy, with fun centering on events in Bethlehem. |
Synopsis | A school nativity rehearsal is causing three students to question whether the events they're portraying ever took place at all. Their teacher makes a Christmas wish, and the three find themselves back in Bethlehem, dressed as the three kings... |
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Good Elves Gone Bad by Sue Gordon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Whilst some of the character names are gendered, it doesn't really matter - they are, when all is said and done, a bunch of elves. (And a dwarf.) |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy play for kids with a secular Christmassy feel. |
Synopsis | The elves of Santa's workshop have been making traditional toys for Christmas after Christmas. After the regulations have been changed so many times, they begin to wonder why they're slaving away in a workshop and not out having a holiday. |
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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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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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The Journey of the Magi [Verse] by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 21. No chorus. There are options to double some parts, to split the narrator's role amongst multiple players and to add a non-speaking chorus. The characters include a camel. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Rhyming nativity play (from the perspective of the Magi). Lightly humorous take. No set requirements, simple props (give or take the camel). |
Synopsis | The story of the Three Kings told as a rhyming Chrismas story. |
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A Letter to Santa by Sue Gordon Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Two of the characters are nominally adults. It is written so that the cast can be divided into two - a school class and Santa's elves. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for 5 original songs is provided with the producer's copy of the script. |
Style | A light musical for young children. Basic sets. |
Synopsis | A school class write Christmas letters to Santa, and we discover that they are dealt with by Mrs. Santa and a bunch of fractious elves. |
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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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