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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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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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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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Mother Goose [Short Version] by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. Lots of flexibility in the numbers and the gender distribution! |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | No music specified in the script. Songs could be added at the discretion of the producer. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Short English pantomime for kids - strong characters, comedy, simple sets and props. |
Synopsis | Poor Mrs Elsie Goose is an all-round good sort, kind and generous to all even though she is as poor as a church mouse. Unfortunately pure goodness of spirit cannot pay Squire Tightfist's rent and so eviction stares her in the face. Help is at hand in the form of the Good Fairy who recognises Mrs Goose's selfless qualities and rewards her with the gift of Priscilla, a goose who lays golden eggs. To all intents and purposes Mrs Goose is now happy. Not so, says the Demon King, long-time adversary of the Good Fairy. He intends to show that nobody is ever really content with their lot. They always want more. Will he be proved right? |
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Pantomania by Mike Sparks Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Whilst Cinderella and the fairy are nominally female, this is a pantomime, and it doesn't really matter who plays which gender. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script suggests the use of one (optional) song. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A short rhyming pantomime with no set requirements. |
Synopsis | There's Cinderella, Jack (of beanstalk fame), a dame, a comedy character, an evil henchman and a fairy. All the ingredients of a pantomime, but which one? |
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Rhyming Beauty and The Beast by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Characters include a talking horse. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A simple, humorous rendition of the tale of Beauty and the Beast in one-act and in rhyme. |
Synopsis | A merchant goes to trade his wares and bring back gifts for his three daughters. Two of them, greedy and vain, desire jewellery, the other, fair and good-natured, wishes for a rose. But the merchant plucks a rose from the garden of the Beast, and he must pledge the Beast his daughter's hand in marriage to save his own life. |
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Rhyming Captain Hook by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. Chorus. The chorus (of Lost Boys, Indians and Pirates) is optional. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comic, rendition of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan as a rhyming pantomime. Minimal set requirements, but includes a comic cookery scene. |
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. 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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Robin Hood by Bob Heather and Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. Since this is a pantomime, Robin Hood's Merry Men need not actually be men! This principle may well apply to other characters. Includes a pantomime horse. |
Run Time | Around 150 minutes. [Estimated!] (Timing allows for 16 songs!) Plaza Theatre production, directed by Bob Heather, ran to 2 hrs. |
Music | The script includes place-holders for 17 songs and dances. The Producer's Copy of the script includes specific suggestions for some of them. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | British pantomime - a family show packed with heroes, villains, damsels in distress, and foolishness of many kinds! |
Synopsis | When Robin Hood returns to Nottingham after a stint in the crusades, he meets the Sheriff's ward, Maid Marion and falls in love, only to find out that the Sheriff himself has designs on er. Marion isn't the only thing the Sheriff desires, the whole of Sherwood Forest is under threat of his evil plans when Robin's outlaws discover plans for the forest to be chopped down for the Sheriff's new money-grabbing venture. Robin and his band of Merry Men with the aid of Holly Jockey-Sticks, the woodland Fairy, Nellie Scarlet (Marion's nanny) and her son Wally set out to thwart the evil Sheriff once and for all to ensure good will always win over evil. |
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Selfie Beauty and the Beast by Warren McWilliams |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act pantomime designed to be performed in individual video recordings to be stitched together to form a show! |
Synopsis | Prince is transformed into a mean beast (for being mean) and has to redeem himself by making Beauty fall in love with him. |
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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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