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| ABC December by Sherrill S. Cannon & Kerry E. Gallagher |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. Chorus. There are no specific characters. The lines are intended to be recited by one or more children. The lines could be spoken by individuals or an ensemble. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for ten songs to accompany the piece. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Performance piece for a nursery school / kindergarten class. |
| Synopsis | A rhyming review of December festivals (with a North American bias - it covers Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and other American celebrations, with a nod to their antecedents in other countries). |
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| The Alphabet Trip by Sherrill S. Cannon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. Any number of children at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] Dependent on songs used. |
| Music | Nine song suggestions are provided with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A rhyming script with songs, for young children. |
| Synopsis | Every letter of the alphabet is covered and songs illustrate particular ones along the way. |
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| Dog in the Manger by Raymond Blakesley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. Characters include a dog, a camel, a donkey, three stars and a flock of sheep! |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Lyrics to simple songs (to well-known children's tunes) are included in the script. Additional (optional) carols are suggested. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Simple Nativity play for young children, told from the point of view of the animals! (No set or prop requirements.) |
| Synopsis | A dog, a camel a donkey and a star are all complaining about their lot in life, but they have important roles to play in Bethlehem. |
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Have You Seen My Little Lamb? by Sherrill S. Cannon
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 24. No chorus. Includes sheep, kittens and mice! |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Songs and nursery rhymes are embedded in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Nursery rhyme-themed play for elementary school children. |
| Synopsis | Mary brought her lamb to school and the teacher was cross with her, but now it's time to go home and there's no sign of Lambie. Mary asks a lot of folks if they've seen her lamb, until she finally tracks the rascal down under Little Boy Blue's Haystack. |
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| I'll See You In My Dreams by Michal Y Noah, songs by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Very flexible casting, with songs (and associated actions) performed by members of a chorus. (In the original book, Hoppy was a rabbit - hence the name. That is assumed to be the case, though it need not be!) |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano & Vocal scores for 4 songs by Stuart Ardern are supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Short musical play for young children with flexible casting and minimal staging requirements. (Derived from Michal Y Noah's book of the same name, conceptualized by Loren Noah.) |
| Synopsis | Hoppy doesn't want to go to bed because she's afraid that she'll have nightmares. Her mother makes Hoppy's dreams something to look forward to. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
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A Letter to Santa by Sue Gordon
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| 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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| The Little Red Hen by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. A narrator, a bunch of barnyard fowl and a fox! Whilst there isn't a chorus specified, it would be easy to increase the flock! |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Producer's copy of the script includes piano/vocal scores for seven simple songs (including reprises). |
| Style | A simple musical for young children, based on a familiar story! |
| Synopsis | It's pizza time in the barnyard, and as usual Peggy Pullet is doing all the work. The rest of the fowl are happy to let her - until they get a harsh lesson in the shape of a wily fox. |
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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
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| The Magic Tree [Children's Play] by Michal Y Noah |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Chorus. The characters are trees, birds, animals and a fairy. Whilst some of these have a specific gender, this is only for the sake of pronouns and can be ignored for casting! Flexible numbers through a (speaking) chorus of birds and non-speaking animals. |
| Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Rhyming play based on the author's best-selling children's book. Either for performance by a company of young kids or performed by an older group to an audience of young children. |
| Synopsis | On the surface, The Magic Tree is a heart-warming story - the life of a young tree - turned into a simple fun play for young children. Beneath the surface, it encourages children to trust in themselves and their own abilities. The play demonstrates the power of positive affirmation and self-belief. |
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Noah's Ark by Bill Siviter
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. Chorus. Non-speaking parts include 'all the creatures of the earth'! |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Verse play, mainly told by narrators (with plenty of scope for a large cast to mime the actions) |
| Synopsis | See the book of Genesis, chapters 6 to 9! |
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| The Perfect Princess and the Wonky Wizard by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One of the characters is a unicorn. For the purpose of counting roles, we have assumed this requires one actor, but of course it might be played as a full skin costume, like a pantomime horse. (The narrator might double as the unicorn.) |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | An optional song is suggested in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Short fairytale for children's theatre, with an original story. |
| Synopsis | Wilhelmina the Wicked Witch is holding Spoony the Uni, a unicorn, prisoner in an enchanted forest - which is no longer enchanted due to Walter the Wonky Wizard casting the wrong spell! Two owls, Joey and Snowy, and a young crow, Pickles, team up with Princess Arabella on her quest to rescue Spoony. |
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