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| Hood - The Sequel by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. No formatl chorus, but the number of guards and jailers has some flexibility. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids. In theory, four locations, but no real set requirements. |
| Synopsis | 'Good' King Richard is dead and 'Bad' Prince (now 'King') John has succeeded to the throne. However the King has been forced to sign the Magna Carta which means that he needs to behave himself. This results in Robin Hood being able to give up his outlaw life in Sherwood Forest and return to Loxley Manor as Sir Robin of Loxley. Now married to his beloved Lady Marian, all seems well with the world. Not quite so, for Robin's old nemesis, the Sheriff of Nottingham, now unemployed as a result of council cutbacks, is hatching a fiendish plot to frame Robin for a heinous crime against the state. |
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| Hoodwinked by Andrew Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A list of suggested songs is provided in the Producer's copy of the script, with some original lyrics to familiar tunes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length pantomime. |
| Synopsis | This pantomime brings fun with some new situations for the familiar Robin Hood characters, who use innovative means to thwart the dastardly sheriff. |
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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
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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Hook and Peter Pan - How it all began by Giles Scott, Helen Dooley and Bob Walsh
Cape Times Awards for Amateur Theatre, "Best Musical" 2003 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 35. Chorus. This is not a panto, but it would be possible for Peter Pan and some or all of the lost boys to be played by girls. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for Overture and 15 songs by Helen Dooley and Bob Walsh are supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Full-length musical which could be played by a youth company, by adults or by a mixture.
The production notes include extensive explanations of how to fly! |
| Synopsis | Everyone knows the story of Peter Pan. But how did the Boy Who Never Grew Up learn to fly? How did Hook lose his hand? How did the croc swallow the clock? This enchanting musical provides the answers! |
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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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| Hope - A Monologue by Frank Flynn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act monologue. Single outdoor set (which can be implied rather than fully built). Written in Canadian English. |
| Synopsis | Young mother Hope waits in the park for a meeting that will change her life. She tries to comfort her tiny baby, though she has no new clothes, nor food for her. A very emotive piece. |
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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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| The Horrible Hot Air Homicide by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Melodrama stereotypes - the wicked squire, the poor-but-hones heroine, etc. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One song (to a G&S tune). Sheet music for the song is supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | Melodrama set in Victorian times, but written in the 21st century - so something of a send-up of the format. |
| Synopsis | 'The Horrible Hot Air Homicide' - or 'Fanny's Free For All' sees the wicked squire in pursuit of the poor heroine, Fanny. However, in fear that his past misdeeds will be exposed, the squire frames his rival for murder, then furnishes a fiendish fate for Fanny. |
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| The Horrific Case Of Mr Valdemar by Edgar Allen Poe - adapted Richard Layton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 98 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Melodramatic full-length play. Multiple settings, but one main set with minor locations playable front-of-curtain or picked-out by lighting. |
| Synopsis | In this dramatization of an Edgar Allan Poe short story, the eerie atmosphere surrounding Mr Valdemar's death and the intervention of the questionable hypnotist Rufus is authentically and chillingly brought to life. |
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| Horror-scopes by David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The male role is a phone-in voice. This might be better done live but it could conceivably be recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Two minute comedy sketch with no specific requirements for set or props. (A couple of comfortable seats would help.) |
| Synopsis | Tony calls the astrology section of a chat show and gets to learn a bit more than he expected about his future... |
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Horseplay by Graham Jones
The precursor full-length version of this play won the Drama Association of Wales playwriting competition in 1980. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Compelling one-act drama. Single set - just a committee room table and chairs. Contains adult themes. |
| Synopsis | After a post-match celebration, three rugby players are accused of raping a girl. Through the old boys' network, the matter is dropped, but the club barmaid won't let it rest. Thanks to her persistence, one of the other members starts to see things in a different light too. |
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| Hot Air by Mary Portalska |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A funny and fast sketch. Easy to stage with something resembling the front of a hot air balloon basket as a set - this could be as simple as a table with a bit of cloth, or a cardboard cut-out. |
| Synopsis | When their hot air balloon takes off without a pilot, two bickering sisters find themselves adrift. And then they find the pilot, dangling on a rope below the basket. |
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