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2020 Pied Piper by Stuart Ardern
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| 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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Aladdin [Short Version] by Geoff Bamber
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| 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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A Budget Cinderella by Peter Bond
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Chorus size at Producer's discretion |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions are provided with the Producer's copy Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A One Act Pantomime. |
| Synopsis | In this watered down version of the old favourite there is no watering down of the action, as the usual suspects put a different slant on the Cinderella story. |
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| Buttons by Susan Vesey |
| 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 | None. |
| 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? |
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| Captain Hook's Revenge by Richard Coleman |
| 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.)
Note that as with all adaptations of Peter Pan, we pay half the author's royalties to Great Ormond Street Hospital |
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| Chaos In Wonderland by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 51 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | No specific music suggestions, although there is an optional song performance in Scene Three. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act rhyming play |
| Synopsis | Alice unexpectedly teams up with Jack and his magic beans to overthrow the Queen of Hearts in this rhyming one-act collision of tales. |
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| Cinderella [Version 3] by Peter Bond |
| 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! |
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Cinderella [Version 9] by James O'Sullivan
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 22. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act adaptation of the familiar pantomime with various simple settings. |
| Synopsis | For performance by schools or youth groups, this is a new outlook in a light-hearted rendering of the original fairytale. |
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Cinders by Geoff Bamber
Best Seller Performance by East Leake Amateur Players (Juniors) won the best play award at Notts and Nottingham Drama Association youth festival 2018. |
| 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. |
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| Citronella by Richard Coleman |
| 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. |
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