New Pantomimes from Lazy Bee Scripts
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New Pantomimes from Lazy Bee Scripts |
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On this page you can find a list of our most recently published scripts (those published
inthe last 60 days).
(If you want more history, then go to the script search engine and use the "Sort in Order of : Date Published" function. If you want more British pantos, go to the pantomime home page.) |
All the scripts described below can be read in full on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site.
(Click on the script titles to see the complete scripts.)
However, all the scripts on this site are copyrighted. They may not be printed, quoted or performed without the permission of Lazy Bee Scripts.
Click on the "Price" links for details of the script prices and licensing arrangements.
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| Cinderella [Version 5] Published | Author | Adrian Barradell | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 100 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style | British pantomime (with the option to add songs at the discretion of the production team). | ||||||
| Synopsis | The traditional tale of Fairy Godmother, Ugly Sisters, Buttons and the Ball, told in proper panto style. The original rags-to-riches story (with a couple of bankers thrown-in for good measure!) | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| Sleeping Beauty [Version 5] Published | Author | Julie Petrucci and Chris Shinn | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. A version of Sleeping Beauty ideal for any company - with plenty of small parts and chorus involvement to give all abilities and ages the opportunity to join in. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 95 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 13 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. | ||||||
| Style | British pantomime in two acts. | ||||||
| Synopsis | This version of the well loved tale purports to be the actual true story told by Sleeping Beauty herself! Well who knows? It coud be couldn't it? Oh yes it could! Corny (and some risqué) jokes abound in this modern version which retains the original fairy tale plot with the addition of some amusing updates like a texting Princess and a frustrated Prince who can't get a signal on his mobile phone. | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
| Plus | 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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| Snow White - The Sequel Published | Author | Susan Vesey | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 70 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. | ||||||
| Style | Short(ish) pantomime, including short(ish) cast (apart from Tiny, who is tall). | ||||||
| Synopsis | In this jolly pantomime we discover what has happened to Snow White since we last saw her twenty years ago. She has married her true love the King of Bislania and they are living happily together with their four children. However, their happiness is threatened by the return of the Wicked Queen Elvira who has spent 20 years collecting all the broken pieces of the Magic Mirror. Can Muddles the jester and his mother Dame Neffertiti enlist the help of the dwarves and the fairies to thwart her evil plan? Of course they can, this is a pantomime and all the necessary ingredients of corny jokes, lots of action and audience participation take us on our way to a happy ending. | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
| Plus | 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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| The King's New Clothes Published | Author | Peter Bond & Bob Heather | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Characters include a pantomime dame (played by a male) and a principal boy (played by a female). | ||||||
| Run time | Around 105 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | A few song suggestions made in the Producer's Copy of the script, other songs at the discretion of the production team. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. | ||||||
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The Hans Christian Andersen story (of The Emperor's New Clothes) told for the stage as a traditional English Pantomime - lots of silly jokes and clowning. Originally published in 2008, revised in 2012. |
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| Synopsis | The King needs a new suit for his forthcoming marriage, and the royal tailors just can't cut it. The situation seems tailor-maid for the evil Barron Grumbleguts, who wishes to usurp the throne. He proposes a competition, and then engineers the humiliation of the king by means of an invisible suit. All comes right in the end, with the help of a deputy superintendent of vegetables, and Hercules, the performing flea! | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
| Plus | 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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| Sheer Luck Holmes Published | Author | Bob Heather and Cheryl Barrett | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Nine principals, three cameos, various chorus roles and a pantomime dog. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 150 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | A few songs are suggested (with others left to the discretion of the production team). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. | ||||||
| Style | British pantomime treatment of the great detective. | ||||||
| Synopsis | Pantomime with a capital P! All of the familiar panto ingredients and characters are here as the goodies all join together to solve the mysterious case of the missing art works. Holmes is assisted by his housekeeper Dottie the dame, the frustrated inventor of fantastical gadgets, and Baskerville the pantomime dog, in his quest to thwart baddies Mary Arty and Hudson the butcher whose sausages are not all they seem. The story moves at pace to the happy ending with quickfire repartee, reminiscent of Abbot and Costello coupled with lots of action, audience participation, song and dance, a love story and lashings of corny jokes. | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
| Plus | 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 Velvet Slipper Published | Author | Peter Nuttall | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 100 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | There are a few suggestions for songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. | ||||||
| Style | A British panto for a small cast, this new look at the old favourite Cinderella launches into action from the off with lots of jokes both old and new. | ||||||
| Synopsis | All of the customary characters are here - the ugly sisters of course, Dandini and his wicked step brother, the less than charming Prince Charming. Buttons joins in as usual (but this Buttons' mother is Cinderella's witchy godmother, Toggles). Add in a fed up King Charming (along with the Town Clerk! and Toggles' potions), loads of action, jokes and audience participation and here we have a recipe for a bracing and intriguing new slant on an old favourite. | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
| Plus | 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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| The Pied Piper Published | Author | Bob Heather | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. The usual pantomime juxtapositions are assumed, with Heidi the pantomime dame played by a man and Ralf, the principal boy, played by a young woman. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 110 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | Two sets of lyrics supplied with the script, all other songs are at the discretion of the producer. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. | ||||||
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English pantomime - comedy, silliness and puns! [Originally published in 2006, revised edition published 2012.] |
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| Synopsis | Hamlin is over-run with rats, too many for the Councillors Hans and Nees to deal with so the Council decide to respond to an advert in the local paper for a Piper who claims to be able to rid anywhere of four-legged pests. Unfortunately the Mayor can't afford to pay, so the Piper runs off with the Mayor's daughter Greta and the village children. Will Ralf and the other villagers be able to rescue Greta and the children from the Piper before it's too late? | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
| Plus | 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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| Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [Version 4] Published | Author | Bob Heather and Cheryl Barrett | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. The dwarfs are referred to as 'the boys' but this is only as valid as any other assumption about pantomime casting! | ||||||
| Run time | Around 160 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | The script has places for songs with some suggestions and some original lyrics. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. | ||||||
| Style | Full-length British panto. | ||||||
| Synopsis | When the evil Queen is told by her magic mirror that her beautiful step-daughter Snow White is the fairest in the land, she plots to kill her. Will Snow White be saved from Harry the huntsman's knife? And what is Harry the huntsman's secret? Join Snow White's best friend Bertie, Old Ma Bumble and the seven Dwarfs as they try to thwart the Queen at every turn. Throw into this mixture, Botchit and Leggit, two hapless builders, and you have a traditional family pantomime full of slapstick comedy and mayhem based on one of the best loved fairy stories of all time. | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
| Plus | 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 4] Published | Author | James Barry | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. Nine principals plus (non-speaking but singing and dancing) chorus. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 110 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | Ten songs are suggested (others may be used at the discretion of the production). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. | ||||||
| Style | Full-length British pantomime - comedy, magic and mayhem. | ||||||
| Synopsis | The classic rags-to-riches (kitchen to palace) story brought to the stage for a sweet-natured heroine, a prince, two ugly sisters, a fairy godmother and the occasional glass slipper. | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
| Plus | 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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