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| The Wizard of Oz by James Barry |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. The chorus is assumed to include a number of children (playing the Munchkins). |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for songs and dances. 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 | Family show, with songs, visual jokes, physical comedy, wordplay. (Not strictly a British pantomime, but contains many panto elements, so would be at home in a panto season or at any other time!) |
| Synopsis | A tornado sends the farmhouse occupied by Dorothy Gale on an impromptu flight to the land of Oz, where she encounters Munchkins, witches, a scarecrow, a tin man and a lion in her quest to find the Wizard of Oz and return to her home in Kansas. |
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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
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| 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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| Wolfbane! by George Douglas Lee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. As per any self-respecting horror story, the chorus is a group of pitchfork-wielding villagers. |
| Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script comes with a piano and vocal score to the overture plus nine songs. |
| Style | Comedy horror musical, set in a very Transylvanian Wales! |
| Synopsis | Three unscrupulous gypsies take advantage of the son of Ronald Talboots, the Lord of the manor, by pretending he's become a werewolf, so they can fleece the local people with fake protection amulets. Love, Lycanthropy and lyrical music abound. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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| Wolfgang by Vithal Rajan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. The characters are nine women of Indian origin and one of Canadian-Jewish extraction! |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play in eleven scenes. A study of the character and relationships of Indian women of different ages and classes. |
| Synopsis | A grand old lady, Mrs Mira Rajkumar, lives alone and in the past, tyrannizing her two women servants, and imagining her dead dog, Wolfgang, to be still around. A chance reading of a book on Ovid convinces her that she would be able to bring back her dog from Hades, and she does, or does she? |
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| Wonder Wall by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A topical comedy sketch with a single, simple setting. |
| Synopsis | Dave and George are spending a night out at the local pub. George is bemoaning the fact that his new neighbour intends to build a wall between their properties. |
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| The Wonderful World of the Weather by Sherrill S. Cannon & Kerry E. Gallagher |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 40. No chorus. Lots of characters, but with just a few lines each, so lots of doubling possible. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 7 songs and three musical interludes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Rhyming play for young children. No set or props needed.
The text displayed on-line is in British English, but there is also an edition in US English (US spellings and 'Fall' instead of 'Autumn'). |
| Synopsis | A whirlwind tour of the weather and seasons. |
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| The Wonders Of Science by David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch. |
| Synopsis | Dr. Huffman attempts to wow a Government representative with his amazing inventions |
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| Wood by Pete Benson |
| 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 | Surreal comedy. |
| Synopsis | Woody's got lots of friends and they all like him, even though he's hard to get on with at times. Also, he's a woodlouse. Sadly, he can't swim, and the gasman has just dropped him in the fish tank.
After that, things get stranger. |
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