Short Rhyming Pantomime Scripts

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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?
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Goldilocks and the Three Bears [Rhyme]

The author's royalties from this show are being donated to educational projects in Uganda.

AuthorPeter Bond
Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Whilst the bears are nominally male and female, they are, after all, bears, so gender will tend to be disguised!
Run time Around 7 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Short rhyming play. This approaches the border of the British pantomime genre. (Make you own mind up on that point!)
Synopsis The tale of the Three Bears and the diminutive housebreaker with a novel twist at the end.
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Hansel and Gretel [Verse]

The author's royalties from this show are being donated to educational projects in Uganda.

AuthorPeter Bond
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus.
Run time Around 8 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Short rhyming play. This approaches the border of the British pantomime genre. (Make you own mind up on that point!)
Synopsis A short rhyming play that preserves the villainous role of the father, but takes extreme liberties with other parts of the original tale, casting Hansel and Gretel in a less-than-favourable light.
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Little Red Riding Hood [Verse]

The author's royalties from this show are being donated to educational projects in Uganda.

AuthorPeter Bond
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. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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...
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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
Rapunzel [Verse]

The author's royalties from this show are being donated to educational projects in Uganda.

AuthorPeter Bond
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One character is optional and silent.
Run time Around 8 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Short verse play (probably, but not necessarily for kids).
Synopsis A couple offend a witch and hand over their daughter, Rapunzel, to her by way of recompense. Rapunzel is locked-up in a tower, accessible only by a window - with the aid of her hair as a climbing rope. She stays there until she is visited by a handsome prince and the audience is visited by an unexpected plot twist!
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Rhyming AladdinAuthorStuart Ardern
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. This is an English pantomime, so Widow Twankey could well be played as a pantomime dame and Aladdin as a principal boy (so male playing female and female playing male)
Run time Around 25 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act Rhyming English pantomime. Simple sets, mainly simple props (give or take a laundry basket on wheels).
Synopsis Aladdin, a washerwoman's son falls for a beautiful princess. In his urgent need for wealth, he is tricked into accompanying the wicked Abanaza on an expedition to retrieve a magic lamp. Abanaza traps Aladdin in a cave, but with a lot of magical help Aladdin escapes and (after a few twists and turns) love triumphs.
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
Rhyming Ali BabaAuthorRichard Coleman
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus.
Run time Around 15 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music One set of song lyrics included, to the tune of 'Wild Rover'. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style A simple version of 'Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves' told in rhyme, minimal set requirements.
Synopsis Like all pantomime heroes, Ali Baba is broke. On his way to look for work, he witnesses a band of thieves hiding treasure in a secret cave. He overhears their password and helps himself to their treasure. Unfortunately, the thieves find out and track him down by hiding in storage jars.
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
Rhyming Beauty and the BeastAuthorRichard 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. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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 HookAuthorRichard 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. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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.
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Rhyming Christmas CarolAuthorRichard Coleman
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children, assumed to be played by children.
Run time Around 15 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style A simple, humorous rendition of Dickens' A Christmas Carol in rhyme, minimal set requirements.
Synopsis On Christmas eve, miserly Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his old business partner and three other ghosts. Being shown the error of his ways, he then sets out to make Christmas happy for others.
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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Rhyming CinderellaAuthorRichard Coleman
Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus.
Run time Around 8 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style A simple, humorous rendition of the Cinderella story in rhyme, minimal set requirements.
Synopsis Cinderella is banned from the ball - a point at which a fairy godmother, a pumpkin and mice really come in handy...
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
Feedback Click here to find out what other customers said about this script.
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