All the scripts described below can be read in full on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site (click on the titles).
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Aladdin [Short Version] by Geoff Bamber |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| 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. |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
| 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 [Small Cast, Short Version] by tlc Creative |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| 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... |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
| 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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All at Sea by Peter Ayre |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. As with all such pantomimes, there's a lot of flexibility in the casting - two of the female parts could be played by males as pantomime dames, the hero could be played by a female - the traditional pantomime principal boy. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Four songs suggested in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-Act British Pantomime - visual jokes, verbal jokes and a little vulgarity. Fairly complex sets for a short piece (but this is pantomime and the sets are flexible too!) |
| Synopsis | Sinbad the Sailor sets out to thwart the designs of Blackbeard the pirate and win the hand of the lovely Charlotte. (All this and a fairy too.) |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
| 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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Babes in the Wood [Short Version] by Geoff Bamber |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 22. Chorus. The chorus (Captain Sprague's crew) is optional. There are nominally four police constables, but these could be increased or decreased in number. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | There are opportunities for songs and dances, but no specific songs suggested in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act comedy (somewhere near an English pantomime, but not exactly that!) for kids. Nominally 5 locations, but no set requirements, so could be performed without set changes. |
| Synopsis | When prosperous businessman Edwin Merryweather is mysteriously lost at sea together with his wife, Constance, their two children, Lizzie and Tizzy, are placed in the care of their Aunt Lydia and her new husband, Lemuel Viper. Viper has his sights set on the Merryweather fortune but he cannot get his hands on that while Lizzie and Tizzy are alive. He hatches a plot to have the girls done to death in Spooky Wood but the ineptitude of the hired killers, the interference of a posse of belligerent elves and the appearance a rather sinister old lady ensure that his plans do not run smoothly. |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Buttons by Susan Vesey |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] Structured as two acts, but could be played as a long one-act. |
| Music | Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime - a Cinderella sequel. Two acts in structure, but on the boundary between a one-act and full-length show in run-time. |
| Synopsis | A year has passed since Cinderella became Queen. Buttons has the catering contract for Prince Charming's Ball and he employs Ciabatta and Cappuccino, the ugly sisters who have returned in disguise, as cooks. Cinderella's stepmother, Elvira, has taken a correspondence course and is now a powerful fairy, able to defeat the Fairy Godmother. Cinderella ends up as a scullery maid, unable to speak, and with the name Linda, and Buttons falls in love all over again. Who can restore the balance of magic and save the day? |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
| 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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Captain Hook's Revenge by Richard Coleman |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Dame assumed to be played by Male, Principal Boy (Peter Pan) by Female. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A few song suggestions are made in the production notes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British Pantomime. Slapstick and silliness, lots of jokes and a crocodile. |
| Synopsis | Captain Hook plots his revenge on Peter Pan, with the help of a crocodile and a poisoned cake. Peter Pan, Tonkerbell (the punk fairy) and the crocodile have other ideas. (Follows much of the plot of Peter Pan, but has more collisions with trees.) |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
| 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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Cinderella [Version 3] by Peter Bond |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 29. Chorus. Traditionally, the ugly sisters (Sharon and Tracy, in this case) would be played by chaps and prince charming would be played by a girl - but this is optional, so make up your own mind about who does what! Includes rats, mice, horses and a bear! |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes some song suggestions, with lyrics written to fit the show. (These include a song about tea to the tune of Land of Hope and Glory.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Mid-length British Pantomime. |
| Synopsis | A poor girl is downtrodden by her mean Stepmother and hideous stepsisters. Luckily for her, she has a Fairy Godmother on her side and a handsome prince waiting in the wings! |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Cinders by Geoff Bamber |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. The ugly sisters could be played male or female. The Prince is assumed to be played male, but could be played female as a Principal Boy. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Opportunities for music at the discretion of the producer. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Jokey, knowing telling of the familiar story, with entertaining plot twists and strong characterisation. Not strictly a pantomime, but can be played as one. Written to be played by children but appeals to all ages. |
| Synopsis | Self-obsessed prince meets upwardly-mobile kitchen maid, bent on escaping from dreadful relatives. Cinderella has a ball and the plot has a twist. |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
| 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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| Feedback | Click here to find out what other customers said about this script. |
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Citronella by Richard Coleman |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act rhyming pantomime, requiring little in the way of scenery. |
| Synopsis | In a mirror image of the traditional Cinderella set-up, Cintronella is a sour lazy young lady with two attractive sisters, and Prince Charming is plotting a trick with a glass slipper to avoid finding a girl to marry... It's up to the fariy godmother and the narrator to get the story back on the rails. |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
| 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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Daisy Does It Again by Peter Ayre |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. The usual panto juxtapositions apply. Two actors are assumed for Daisy, the pantomime cow. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act English pantomime. |
| Synopsis | The evil Sherriff is looking for a beautiful woman to marry and wants Maid Marion, but her bandit boyfriend, Eric Hood, won't hear of it. Can Buttons fool the Sherriff long enough to allow Eric and his outlaws to storm the castle? All this and a psychic cow! |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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