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| The Four Musketeers by Pat Wollaston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 12 songs, with some original lyrics. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | All of the essential ingredients of panto are here with a knockabout Dame as D'Artagnan's mother, plenty of slapstick and corny jokes and the all important opportunities for audience participation. |
| Synopsis | A fusion of pantomime and classic literature that manages to do credit to both genres. With apposite music and chorus involvement the musketeers ensure that the nasty Richeliuer and his accomplice Rougeforthe are thwarted in their evil intentions for the French Royal family. |
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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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| Four Sinister Bookworms by Paul John Matthews |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 66 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A quirky and clever comedy - a murder mystery where there hasn't been a murder. Two simple sets (that can be constructed with the same furniture and just minor changes in decoration and layout between scenes). One act. |
| Synopsis | Library employee Mandy is desperate for something interesting to happen. She gets more than she hoped for when the library's four most eccentric regulars all receive anonymous notes that one of them is a murderer, and gather to solve the case. |
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| The Four Yorkshiremen of the Apocalypse by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. No set requirements (could be done on an open stage or front-of-curtain). |
| Synopsis | Famine, Pestilence, War and Death meet to plot the demise of mankind - although their manner seems unexpectedly familiar. |
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| The Fourth Princess by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 36. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] Plus additional time for songs and dances. |
| Music | Production notes list recommended songs and opportunities for dances. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Humorous fairy tale in one act. Simple sets. |
| Synopsis | The royal family of Tallania try to restore the wealth of a kingdom devastated by dowries. A timeless tale of royalty, wizardry and bankruptcy. |
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| Fragrant Friend by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The 'action' takes place in a queue of people in a Post Office, to there are opportunities for non-speaking extras if you so desire. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. No set or props. |
| Synopsis | Two old comrades meet... and one wishes that they hadn't... |
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| A Frame That Fits by William Campbell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Interesting crafting of character - especially on the part of Richard Gloster, the unorthodox detective, who, given his name, has a tendency to attempt iambic pentameter. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act detective story - not so much a 'whodunnit?' as a 'how do we prove that he dunnit?' Multiple locations, but intended to be represented minimally in a single composite set. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | A family has been found murdered - apparently by their daughter, who then took her own life. The police suspect a frame-up, since the family's nephew stands to profit from their deaths, but they need to call on the unorthodox services of Private Investigator Richard Gloster to prove it. |
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| Framed In A Window by John Chambers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A two-handed, one act play, with a single set and containing strong language. |
| Synopsis | Mo, the janitor in the Texas School Book Depository, is startled to come across a figure sitting in the notorious window, holding a very familiar rifle. Is it really the ghost of Lee Harvey Oswald? |
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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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| Frankenstein - The Monster Musical by George Douglas Lee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with piano/vocal scores for 13 original songs. |
| Style | Gothic horror musical comedy! |
| Synopsis | If Mary Shelley had written a version of Frankenstein for children, this is how she might have approached it - as a heartwarming family musical, filled with mad scientists, misbegotten creatures and an angry mob!
On a rainy night when the power is out, a father tells his son the story of Frankenstein, and we are transported to Victor Frankenstein's Laboratory with Mary Shelly singing of the creation of the creature. We meet the creature, his bride and a croud of villagers, led by the rabble rouser Frau Gribble, whipped into a frenzy and go in search of 'the Monster'. Eventually, they come to realise that he was just misunderstood! |
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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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| Frankenstein - The Pantomime by Martin Hailey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Ten or eleven principals backed by a chorus of villagers (sometimes waving pitchforks and flaming torches). |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Nine songs are suggested in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Monstrous British pantomime |
| Synopsis | Panto reworking of the classic 'mad scientist makes monster' story.
Mary Shelley will be turning in her grave - if she hasn't already been dug up and used for spare parts. No, on second thoughts, forget I ever said that. |
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