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All the pantomimes described below can be read in full on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site. (Click on the Titles to see the complete online panto 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 here for details of the script prices and licensing arrangements.
The scripts include two categories: Small-cast, full-length pantomimes (things that follow the forms and stories of British pantomimes) and and Small cast, family shows - these have some, but not all, features of a conventional panto.
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Aladdin (Small Cast)AuthorJames Barry
Roles Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus.
Run time Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Songs at the producer's discretion. A few suggestions made in the Production Notes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style British Panto with traditional pantomime, with jokes, slapstick and magic.
Synopsis Aladdin falls for Princess Jasmine, but needs to find a fortune to convince her father of the match. He strikes lucky, with a lamp and a genie, but he has to contend with the wicked Abanaza.
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.
Aladdin and the Wishing TreeAuthorPeter Nuttall
Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. The usual pantomime juxtapositions apply.
Run time Around 75 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Production notes include suggestions for two songs (and lyrics for one of them). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style British pantomime for a small cast. Fast-paced verbal comedy.
Synopsis A twisted tale of lamps, genies and wishes - not the regular Aladdin story, even though it contains most of the common elements!
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
Aladdin [Version 7]AuthorAdrian Barradell & Gareth Preston
Roles Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. A nucleus of principals plus a large number of cameo roles. The usual pantomime juxtapositions are possible.
Run time Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for seven songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style British pantomime in two acts.
Synopsis Aladdin, the second son of a poor Laundry owner, comes into possession of a magic lamp that grants wishes. Before he can realise his dream and marry the Princess, however, the evil Abanazar throws a spanner in the works.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
Cinderella and the Pantomime ThiefAuthorPeter Nuttall
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. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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.
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.
It's A Panto Jim... But Not As We Know ItAuthorAndrew Yates
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 33. No chorus. It's a panto - make your own mind up as to who plays what. Opportunity for three dame figures - cookie and the ugly sisters - plus seven dwarves four mice and a few other creatures. No formal chorus, but lots of minor roles.
Run time Around 100 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Piano and vocal scores for eight original songs are provided with the Producer's Copy of the script.
Style British pantomime - in which the worlds of fairytale and TV science fiction collide, boldly going where no panto has gone before.
Synopsis The crew of the Spaceship Centipede interrupt their hundred year mission to help the Seven Dwarfs wake Snow White and on the way they help Cinderella get the man of her dreams. Just another day on the final frontier, give or take the evil Queens and mice.
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:
** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
Puss in Boots (Small Cast)AuthorJames Barry
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. King can double as the Ogre. We assume that Harry (the hero) is played by a man and puss is played by a woman. (But this is pantomime, so make your own mind up!)
Run time Around 80 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music One original song score provided with the Producer's Copy of the Script. Other song spots listed in the script, to be used at the discretion of the producer.
Style Traditional pantomime, with jokes, slapstick and magic.
Synopsis Harry, the miller's youngest son, inherits the magical talking cat (who refuses to answer to 'Tiddles'). Harry falls for the princess, but to win her hand, he has to confront the ogre in a battle of magical transformations.
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
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.)
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
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Robinson Crusoe - The TruthAuthorJames Barry
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. We assume that Robinson (the hero) is played by a Female as a principle boy and that Robinson's mother is played a Male as a pantomime dame.
Run time Around 80 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Sheet music for four original songs are provided with the Producer's Copy of the Script. (Other songs to be used at the discretion of the producer.)
Style Traditional British pantomime, with jokes, slapstick and plenty of opportunities for physical clowning.
Synopsis Robinson Crusoe takes a job on a ship, not realising that the captain is a wicked pirate, seeking treasure. Inevitably, they are shipwrecked, but just when Robinson thinks he's alone on a desert island, his mother and sweetheart come to the rescue.
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
RumpelstiltskinAuthorHilary Mackelden
Roles Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. The usual panto characters plus an unusual creature. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the arrival of the pantomime elephant.
Run time Around 120 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 11 songs, plus a lyrical tweak. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style British pantomime with a story from the Grimm collection folded into a very satisfactory panto shape.
Synopsis Donna wants to marry Justin Tyme, her watchmaker boyfriend, but thanks to her mum's boasting she's having to spin straw into gold for the greedy queen. Rumpelstiltskin helps her out, but she has to marry him unless she can discover his name before the wedding.
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
SCInderellaAuthortlc Creative
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. It is assumed that this will be played as a pantomime, with the dame (in this case the ugly sisters) played by a male (doubling as both sisters) and the principal boy (Prince Charming) will be played by a female.
Run time Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music One popular song is suggested (for which additional lyrics for one verse are supplied in the producer's copy of the script). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style Small cast pantomime with integrated science content, designed to support the (English) National Curriculum Key Stages 2 and 3. (Not the whole of the curriculum, obviously!) Audience participation, slapstick, silliness and science.
Synopsis Prince Charming is on the hunt for the girl of his dreams but the mean ugly sisters, Positivia and Negativia will try their best to stop Cinders from making it to the Ball. Along the way the audience and the characters learn all about pollination, separating mixtures, circuits, light and forces. With lots of audience participation, a fairy godmother and, like all good fairytales, 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:
** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
** MP3 backing track for "I'm a Believer" for use with the science pantomime SCInderella. (By arrangement with Sound-board.com)
** A four-page colour activity pack with jokes, games and puzzles to reinforce the Science from SCInderella. Ready to be downloaded from the internet (2.7MB file) and printed for your audience. (Content identical to the monochrome version.) Click here for more details
** A four-page black-and-white activity pack with jokes, games and puzzles to reinforce the Science from SCInderella. Ready to be downloaded from the internet (2.7MB file) and printed for your audience. (Content identical to the colour version.) Click here for more details
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