All the scripts described below can be read in full on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site (click on the titles).
Click on the "Price" links for details of the script prices and licensing arrangements.
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Alice... The Panto
by
Archie Wilson |
| 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 = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. The numbers are very flexible, but the minimum numbers would require a lot of costume changes! The chorus (for songs and dances) is optional. |
| Run Time | Around 70 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 | English Pantomime version of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' |
| Synopsis | Alice takes a trip down the rabbit hole in this panto version of the classic tale, meeting all the usual suspects, playing croquet, looking after babies and having a tea party. |
| 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
by
tlc Creative |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Some original lyrics included in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime. Strong characters, slapstick, visual jokes, puns and mayhem |
| Synopsis | All is not well in Nottingham! The wicked Sheriff is growing rich on the many taxes he is forcing the poor townsfolk to pay and he is just about to become even richer. Pip and Penny, recently orphaned and heirs to vast fortunes have been entrusted into his care and he is hatching a horrible plan to make sure that he will inherit the cash and marry Maid Marion into the bargain. All that stands in his way is the very brave and dashing Robin Hood and his Merry Men, the fearsome Nanny Coddle, brainless Dave Knave (the wannabe outlaw) and a rather overworked Fairy. Will they succeed in thwarting the evil plot and beat the Sheriff and his villainous henchmen? |
| 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:
** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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Babes in the Wood [Version 2]
by
Bob Heather & Roger Lamb |
| 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 = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. Dame assumed to be played by Male, Principal Boy by Female. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Lyrics for one song included in the script, all other songs at the discretion of the producer. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British Pantomime with traditional pantomime characters - dame, village idiot, goodies and baddies, slapstick and comedy.
Published in 2005, this revised version published 2011. |
| Synopsis | A battle between the Sheriff of Nottingham and Robin Hood over the custody of the Sheriff's wards, aided or confused by the village idiot, Tom Piper, his mother, Robin's Merry Men and the Sheriff's incompetent deputies. |
| 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 [Version 3]
by
Adrian Barradell |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. It's a panto - make your mind up as to who plays what! |
| Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 7 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full length British pantomime. Heroes, villains, kidnappings, ghosts, chases, sword-fights and jokes. That kind of thing. |
| Synopsis | Two children left in the dubious care of the Sherrif of Nottingham, ultimately rescued by the brave outlaw, Robin Hood. |
| 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 [Version 4]
by
Mark Seaman |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. Eleven principals one major cameo plus chorus. It's a pantomime, so make your own mind up as to which plays what. |
| Run Time | Around 115 minutes. [Estimated!] Variable timing with your choice of songs. |
| Music | All songs at the discretion of the production. (The Producer's Copy of the score suggests the style of the songs to be used without actually naming any songs!) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British pantomime - a rip-roaring fast paced panto with lots of business, corny and (harmless) risqué jokes and copious audience participation opportunities. |
| Synopsis | The evil Sheriff plots with his hapless assistants Gilbert and Dilbert to get rid of his late brother's children Lilly and Billy so that he can rob them of their vast inheritance. He is thwarted by hero Robin who is assisted by his true love Marian and the children's nanny Dame Norah. King Richard returns to restore Robin's estate to him and all live happily ever after - except the nasty Sheriff! |
| 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 and the Pantomime Thief
by
Peter Nuttall |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Lots of flexibility in the casting - Cinderella and the Witch are female, Abanaza, Wiggle and Buttons are male, after that you can decide whether the Ugly Sisters should be played by men and Prince Charming female as a 'principal boy'. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | There are opportunities for songs in this show, but the author leaves the details to the discretion of the production team! Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Small cast English pantomime (based on a collision of traditional pantomime stories). |
| Synopsis | The Wicked Witch and Abanazer are trying to take over the world, but which one of them is behind the string of panto prop thefts? Can policeman Buttons solve the wicked crime and help the Prince marry Cinders, or will he marry her himself? Much fun is had with a few panto conventions in this unconventional panto. |
| 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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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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Hood
by
Geoff Bamber |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] Plus additional time for songs and dances. |
| Music | Production notes list recommended songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Not a true British Pantomime (lacks, for example, the ritual audience participation and pantomime dame), but contains many of the ingredients - plenty of jokes and extravagant characters. |
| Synopsis | The Sheriff of Nottingham has taken over Loxley Manor and plans to marry Marian. Prince John is coming to the wedding, together with his personal assistant and a passing bishop. Robin Hood assembles his Merry Men but with unexpected plans. |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
| Feedback | Click here to find out what other customers said about this script. |
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Jack and the Beanstalk [Version 5]
by
Jilly McNeil |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Unusually for Jack and the Beanstalk, it includes a cameo for Robin Hood and interruptions from four brownies. It also has the usual suspects, including buttercup the cow. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script contains suggestions for 15 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British Pantomime. |
| Synopsis | While the Brothers Grimm prowl the village looking for another story to add to their collection, Jack goes to sell the family cow so he can pay Baron Tightfist's new taxes. Having swapped Buttercup for beans and grown a magic beanstalk, can he find fortune enough to marry? |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Little Red Riding Hood [Verse]
by
Peter Bond |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Characters, of course, include a wolf. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Simple verse play for kids. (A sort of short British pantomime.) |
| Synopsis | Red Riding Hood, her mother, and her brother Robin (who you may know from other pantomimes) live in a cottage in the woods. One winter's day Red's mother asks her to take a Christmas hamper to her Grandma, but a Wolf is on the prowl, and there's no woodcutter in sight... |
| 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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