Mid-length Pantomime Scripts for Schools (and lots of other people!)

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The scripts are British pantomimes. If you are not British, then pantomime probably means something different to you (and the scripts may be rather unexpected) - check out What is a Pantomime anyway?
Aladdin [Short Version]AuthorGeoff Bamber
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. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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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All at SeaAuthorPeter Ayre
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. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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.)
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Captain Hook's RevengeAuthorRichard 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. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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.)
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CindersAuthorGeoff Bamber
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. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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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Daisy Saves the DayAuthorPeter Ayre
Roles Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Charcaters include a pantomime cow.
Run time Around 40 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Suggestions for 4 songs are made in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style Short pantomime (a one-act panto by length, but divided into two acts!)
Synopsis The villainous Mondays seem to be behind a spate of cow-nappings that have depleted local herds. Now the only cow left is the amazing Daisy, whose milk has magical restorative powers. Can our heroes keep Daisy safe from the villains and sort out their love lives into the bargain?
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Hansel and GretelAuthorSally Gander
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. Includes a pantomime dame (usually, but not necessarily played by a man), but doesn't have a formal 'principal boy' role. The chorus includes sniggering goblins and a pantomime owl!
Run time Around 55 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Opportunities for music at the discretion of the producer. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style Short British Pantomime, suitable for performance by children or adults. (Technically a two-act play, because there are two acts, but classified as a one-act, because it's not long enough to need an interval!)
Synopsis A few unconventional twists to the Grimm brothers' tale. The witch wants an extention for her cottage. Enter the odd job men, Short and Sweet. (Given that it's a gingerbread cottage, this is a really odd job.) Meanwhile, Hansel and Gretel have got lost in the woods (by following an escaped cake!) and their mother (Dame Betty Knott) is going frantic.
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HoodAuthorGeoff Bamber
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. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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.
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Jack and his Amazing Multi-Coloured BeanstalkAuthorGeoff Bamber
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Though it is not specified in the script, Jack's Mother could be played by a Male (as a pantomime dame) and Jack could be played by a Female (as a panto principal boy). Cast includes a pantomime cow.
Run time Around 50 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Simple English pantomime. Simple sets. Lots of strong characters, lots of comedy.
Synopsis Jack's family are so poor that they must sell their treasured cow. Unfortunately they entrust the job to Jack, whose profit is a handful of beans. The result is a beanstalk and an attempt to rescue the kidnapped princess.
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Mother Goose [Short Version]AuthorGeoff 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. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
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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Robin Hood and his band of Merry PersonsAuthorPeter Nuttall
Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Lots of gender-flexibility (as is normal with British panto)
Run time Around 70 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Suggestions for songs (and some original lyrics) are included in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style Short, British pantomime for a small(ish) cast.
Synopsis A snappily-written version of the Robin Hood saga - rivalry between heroic Robin and the Sheriff (over who is entitled to money and over Maid Marian - who, in this version, is the Sheriff's daughter.)
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Rumpled BeautyAuthorMarcus Grollman
Roles Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus.
Run time Around 55 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Opportunities for songs are highlighted in the script, but there are no song suggestions. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style One-act 'English Pantomime' for Kids (aimed at a full-class school performance) with plenty of gags and puns. Opportunity for additional 'cabaret acts' to be incorporated in the show.
Synopsis A collision of pantomime stories, as the King's Christmas entertainment is in jeopardy - he's lost his TV remote control, and that makes him really angry. Can Rumpled Beauty save the day?
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Sleeping Beauty [Short Version]AuthorGeoff Bamber
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Eleven speaking parts, one grunting part and as many non-speaking guards as you need for your palace.
Run time Around 45 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Short English pantomime (though not necessarily following many panto conventions!) Simple sets and props.
Synopsis Malveda, the Evil Spirit, is determined to destroy the royal family. Principal target is Princess Princess, daughter of the household. Despite round-the-clock protection for the princess, Malveda and her evil spells remain a constant threat. It's a good job that roaming adventurers such as the gallant Prince Galliard are on hand to come to the rescue, if required.
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Snow White and the Mini MinersAuthorStuart Ardern (with Jonny Ardern)
Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. No role for a pantomime dame (though the mirror could play that role). Includes a pantomime horse.
Run time Around 50 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Sheet music for 4 original songs supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script.
Style Short pantomime - well, given the subject, it would be. Wordplay and slapstick
Synopsis Tells the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs with the minimum of characters. On the run from her wicked stepmother, Snow White takes refuge with a group of miners who are a bit short on - well, everything, they have even mislaid a mineshaft. Then there are the problems with the apple seller and the handsome prince.
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** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
Snow White and the Other Seven DwarvesAuthorSarah Cowan
Roles Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus.
Run time Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Musical suggestions listed in the Producer's Copy of the script Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style Full-class sized junior school play. Lots of song and dance opportunities.
Synopsis The original Seven Dwarves have gone off to form a boy band. Their replacements are chosen via a dwarf talent contest. Meanwhile, Snow White has apple seller trouble again, and a handsome prince must be found.
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Snow White and the Poisoned GrapeAuthorDominique Vaughan
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus.
Run time Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music The dwarves perform a rap (lyrics embedded in the script, no music supplied) and there is a song to the tune of 'What shall we do with a Drunken Sailor?' Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style Short, one-act play for children. No specific set requirements, few props. (Might fit in a pantomime slot for kids - it has some of the themes, but lacks some panto stock characters.)
Synopsis Thanks to a shortage of fruit in the castle, the Wicked Queen is forced to enchant a grape to do away with Snow White. Luckily for our heroine, the cat keeps sitting on the spellbooks so things don’t work out the way the Queen wanted. And sadly for the handsome Prince, in this version of the tale Jack and his friend the Giant from the beanstalk find Snow White first and wake her with a kiss. The giant becomes the seventh dwarf and Snow White marries Jack, leaving the Prince to head of in search of another Princess to marry.
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The King of Spain's TreasureAuthorGeoff Bamber
Roles Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus.
Run time Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Loosely based on Treasure Island - so loosely that Robert Louis Stevenson is probably spinning in his grave. Jokes and puns and a new take on an old story. Not strictly a pantomime, but might be played as one.
Synopsis Jim Hawkins, now in possession of the tattered map of a distant tropical island, sees a life of adventure and great riches beckoning but, as the story unfolds, he realises that he is not the only one with an interest in the treasure.
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The Prince and the PussycatAuthorJon Dwyer
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. Lots of flexibility in the casting. There is no formal role for a pantomime dame, but the Queen could be cast as a dame (as could Primrose!) Likewise, the prince could be played by a female as a pantomime principal boy. Cast includes several mice!
Run time Around 65 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music A few songs are suggested in the producer's copy of the script. More could be added at the discretion of the production team! Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style Mid-length British Pantomime. Magic, jokes and a slapstick decorating scene!
Synopsis Polly Perkins is clearly destined to marry Prince Oliver, but there's a problem - the bad fairy has turned her into a cat. Will true love run its course, or will she just have to content herself with eating the palace mice?
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The True Story of Richard Whittington Esq.AuthorGeoff Bamber
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus.
Run time Around 40 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Simple one-act pantomime (generally intended for performance by kids, but don't let that limit you!)
Synopsis Dick Whittington, an orphan, heads for London to seek his fame and fortune. Accompanied by his faithful cat, known as Cat, he gains employment in the home of Lord and Lady Fitzwarren, where he, predictably, falls in love with the daughter of the house, Miss Honoria. Lord Fitzwarren is beset by debts and the predatory threat of the villain of the story, King Rat, who has designs on claiming the family’s home. A fanciful scheme to pay off the debts fails and the Fitzwarrens fall into the clutches of the Rats. As Dick desperately tries to think of a solution, the situation is rescued by Cat, returning from an interesting excursion to foreign parts and now armed with special powers, those of the mystic phenomenon known as the Tsobaki!
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Watch This SpaceAuthortlc Creative
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Four of the characters are 'voice-overs' and could easily be doubled by other members of the cast.
Run time Around 50 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style A one-act space panto with a few Star Wars and Star Trek parodies thrown in for good measure!
Synopsis The distant planet of Nonamia is held in the iron grip of the wicked Queen Evilena. This vane and preening monarch has now taken a dislike to her stepdaughter the beautiful princess Tia Maria and instructs her Henchman, the sinister Raft Raider to dispose of the child! Who can save her? Perhaps the crew of the Starship USS Compromise and an assortment of robots can help?
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