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2020 Pied Piper by Stuart Ardern Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. Some of the characters are written with a particular gender in mind, but that doesn't really matter. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Not so much a rhyming pantomime as a raging satire. Minimal sets, few props. |
Synopsis | There's a plague of rats about to fall on Hamelin, and the Mayor has gone on holiday. Even when he gets back, his trap and trace scheme is failing. Enter the Pied Piper with a scheme for which the mayor is more than happy to take credit, but not so eager to pay... |
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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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Aladdin [10 Minute Version] by Jonathan Edgington Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Altered lyrics to one well-known song, and a suggestion for a second song, are included in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A short pantomine script with two simply staged sets (launderette/palace). |
Synopsis | A short, pacy version of the classic Aladdin story with lots of new material and jokes. |
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Aladdin [Short Version] by Geoff Bamber Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. There is a lot of flexibility available in the casting: it would be possible, for example, to play Aladdin as a pantomime principal boy (played by F) and Widow Twankey as a Dame (played by M). |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short pantomime (generally, but not exclusively, intended to be played by children). Single set (as simple or complex as you wish). Few props. |
Synopsis | The Emperor has arranged the marriage of his daughter, Yasmin, to the son of the Grand Vizier. However, Princess Yasmin, Aladdin and the Genie of the Lamp have other ideas. |
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Aladdin [Small Cast, Short Version] by tlc Creative Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Designed for a small (or very small) cast (with alternative sections to cover the maximum doubling). Jasmine intended female (optionally doubling with the slave of the ring), Abanaza male (doubling with genie), for the rest, make your own mind up! |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act British pantomime for a small cast. |
Synopsis | Penniless wastrel Aladdin falls for Princess Jasmine. To win her, he needs a fortune, and quickly! Enter the evil Abanaza with a scheme involving a lamp, a cave and the odd genie or two... |
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Aladdina and Somebody's Magic Lamp by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Various characters written with a specific gender, but it's a pantomime so they can be switched wherever you like. |
Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Rhyming pantomime with multiple locations but no specific set requirements. |
Synopsis | A novel twist on the tale of Aladdin, with a female lead and a story line that moves well away from the original plot, whilst keeping lamp, genie and (the British panto setting of) Widow Twankey's laundry. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Alderman Whittington's Cat by Stuart Ardern |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. Some characters are written as male and some as female, but gender isn't important in casting. |
Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | There are spaces for song and dance routines to be added into the script, at the producer's discretion. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Pantomime in rhyming quadrameters (and a rap). No set required, but you might go to town on the props. |
Synopsis | He went to London penniless And found the town in a mess. He solved the problems with such flair He rose to be the city's mayor. This is the story of his climb Dick Whittington - a play in rhyme! |
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Ali The Barber and the Forty Thieves by Hugh Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Thirty-seven of the forty thieves remain off-stage. |
Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script includes a suggestion for a closing song. (This isn't essential.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A sketch-length pantomime or a pantomime-themed sketch. |
Synopsis | A gang on work experience hide swag stolen from a barber's shop in a secret cave. The barber’s brother stumbles across it and hatches a plan to trap them in the cave. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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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Alice by Alexandra Slater |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 108 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Song suggestions for 13 songs are included in the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full length panto-like comedy, with various settings. |
Synopsis | In this fun adaptation, panto-style and with audience interaction, Alice journeys through Wonderland with recent multi-media updates! She encounters the many characters in the story and even manages to fall in love... |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Another Cat, Another Hat by Stuart Ardern |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. As presented on the web site, the script requires a minimum cast of 15, but the Producer's Copy provides a number of variations to the text which can reduce the cast size to 10 (with doubling). It's panto so gender is flexible. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] (Variations cutting characters and dances would bring the time down to around 20 minutes.) |
Music | The script has several places for songs and dances at the producer's discretion. The score for one song is provided (it's not essential, but it happens to fit.) |
Style | One-act rhyming pantomime version of Puss in Boots, designed for minimal sets but requiring a few portable items. |
Synopsis | The miller's son, to his distress Is poor and can't court the princess That's something which his cat disputes - A talking cat, it's Puss in Boots! |
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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 ** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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The Babes in the Wood [Rhyming] by Peter Bond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Whilst the characters all have specific gender, it's a pantomime, so cast it however you like. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script includes lyrics for one optional song (to the tune of The Grand Old Duke of York). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A fun script which packs a lot of both physical and verbal comedy into its short running time |
Synopsis | Ben and Lily are travelling through the dangerous Sherwood Forest, but these Babes are not as helpless as expected - they defend themselves with catapults and an assortment of vegetables against the Sheriff, the Nurse, Robin Hood, and even King Richard. |
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