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| Checkout Girls by Louise Roche |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for all the songs (12 songs plus reprises) to be sung in the course of the show. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full length feel-good comedy play interspersed with popular songs. Single composite set (multiple locations on one stage). |
| Synopsis | Checkout staff gossip, bicker, joke, laugh, cry, hug and fight their way to supermarket singles night! |
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| A Christmas Carol by Andrew Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 43. Chorus. Flexible cast - several scenes require lots of extras, many with speaking parts. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for seven original songs are provided with the producer's copy of the script. (The script also suggests the use of the carol 'God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen') |
| Style | Adaptation of Dickens classic tale of redemption as a musical play. |
| Synopsis | On Christmas eve, miser Ebenezer Scrooge receives a visit from the ghostly apparition of his former business partner, Jacob Marley. Marley's ghost is followed by three more spectral visitors, who show visions of Scrooge's past present and future in an effort to show the old skinflint the error of his ways. |
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** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
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Girls' Night by Louise Roche
2009 Off-Broadway production extended after sell-out of initial 8-week run. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Five women with playing ages between 17 and 40. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] (including 14 songs) |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for all the songs (12 songs plus two reprises) to be sung by the characters as part of there karaoke night out. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Set largely in and around a karaoke night club, with occasional rapid flashbacks (implying figurative sets rather than realistic locations). Simple props, give or take the moped. |
| Synopsis | Sharon's daughter, Candi-Rose is getting married, and Sharon has joined her friends on a celebration night out. And the fact that Sharon has been dead for twenty years isn't going to spoil her enjoyment one little bit! Her friends laugh, cry, fight and sing in this joyous evocation of a group out to enjoy life, despite its trials and complications. |
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| Trinity Road School Reunion by Dawn Cairns |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. As no year of anniversary is mentioned, the cast playing ex-pupils just need to be of similar age. The teachers' ages can vary. |
| Run Time | Around 98 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 16 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length musical |
| Synopsis | A class comes back together years after school has finished, for a 70s night at a local pub. Ne romances awaken, and old ones are remembered. Some have changed quite dramatically, but the old bully is still the same. It’s time for the friends to make a stand at last. |
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| Curse of the Holbrook Zombies by Robin Steggles & Sharon Hulm |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Fifteen on-stage chracters and an off-stage voice. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 7 songs (with some original/parody lyrics). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length family show, an alternative to the traditional pantomime. A comedy sci-fi/horror mix withan anarchic spirit. Contains lurching. |
| Synopsis | A new, mysterious doctor has appeared in the village and the medication he is handing out is turning people into chocolate-craving zombies. It's up to Sam, with the help of his Gran's special brew, to cure the zombies. Can anyone stop them boarding the bus and spreading the zombie virus to Ipswich and the world? |
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| The Wicked Witch & The Magic Shop by William Arnold Ashbrook |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. The cast includes cats and gremlins. Gladys could be played as a pantomime dame. |
| Run Time | Around 97 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script comes with the scores for 11 original songs (plus five reprises). |
| Style | A musical family show with opportunities for audience participation (therefore occupying a theatrical space close to British Pantomime). |
| Synopsis | Graveling, the evil witch, has turned a number of good people into life size dolls and cats. The young heroes, enlist the help of the owners of the Magic Shop and Marlin the decrepit magician, and together they manage to defeat the witch and her gremlin helpers. |
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| Esther by Richard Cowling |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 32. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script comes with piano and vocal scores for 16 songs, one instrumental and 15 scene-change pieces. (A conductors score and band parts are available as an optional extra.) |
| Style | Full-length Musical based on the biblical story of Esther. Designed as a school musical, could equally well be done by an adult or mixed company. |
| Synopsis | King Xerxes of Persia maries Esther, a Jewish orphan who has been brought up by her uncle, Mordecai. Haman, the chief minister of Xerxes court insists that everyone bow down to him. When Mordecai refuses to do so, Haman flies into a rage and plans to kill Mordecai, and all the Jewish people in the kingdom. Mordecai calls upon Esther for help, but this means she must confront the mighty Xerxes... |
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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
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
** Backing CD with instrumental version of the 16 songs and 16 musical interludes (including scene changes) for the musical Esther by Richard Cowling.
** Vocal tracks for the 16 songs (with 16 musical interludes) from the musical Esther by Richard Cowling. (Vocals by Leanne Cooper and Richard Cowling.)
** Conductor's score and band parts (keyboard, trumpet, trombone, woodwind, bass, etc.) for the songs and incidental music (32 pieces) from the musical Esther by Richard Cowling.
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| Big Shot by Jonny Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. All characters are adults, but could be played by teenagers. Characters are Americans (of various regions), one Englishman and one Mexican-American. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano & Vocal score (17 songs, 4 instrumentals) provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. Score for Musical Director and band (piano, guitar, bass, Alto Sax, Tenor Sax) available as optional extra. |
| Style | Musical set in and around a casino. Songs in various styles including swing, ragtime, tango and jazz-funk. |
| Synopsis | Gambler Ryan Thomas brings his naive English friend Jack to a casino. Whilst discovering the perils of the Blackjack table, Jack falls for Alice, the pianist with the house band. Unfortunately, Alice is already spoken for by Louis Diaz, known as Mr. Big Shot for his reputation as a lucky gambler. Luck which Jack decides to test - with unforeseen consequences, for this is the 1950s and Las Vegas gambling is dominated by the mob... |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Musical Director's Score for Big Shot (showing all vocal and instrumental lines) plus separate band parts for guitar, bass, tenor sax and alto sax. (Download as .pdf file.)
** A CD of backing tracks for all 17 songs from the musical 'Big Shot'.
** A Zip file containing MP3 backing tracks for all 17 songs from the musical 'Big Shot'.
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| While You Were Gone by Catherine Gourdie |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 18. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 24. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 61 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The script can be performed with or without music. There are eight points in script where songs to be performed are suggested. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Two-act historical drama set in a 1940s factory, with a large cast. |
| Synopsis | Edie reminisces on her experiences working in a factory during World War II. |
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| Brave Saint George by Kate Goddard |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. The script allows for - indeed, encourages - four different actors to play Saint George. Whilst many of the characters have a specific gender casting across gender would be entirely appropriate to the form! |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script suggests suitable music to accompany the performance. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Modern version of a traditional English mummers' play. Since such things were often performed outdoors, informally, there is no requirement for a set. |
| Synopsis | St George, a noble knight is keen to marry Princess Saffron and to show how brave he is. The King and Queen set him a test - to fight the toughest enemies from faraway lands. He defeats each enemy in turn - though each is brought back to life by a different doctor (a special character with a strange cure.) St George is, unfortunately, a bit of a big-head, and by the time he defeats the last enemy, the Dragon, Princess Saffron has begun to have other ideas about a suitable partner... |
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