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| A Christmas Carol [Version 3] by Michael Morton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 37. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 88 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script suggests a series of carols to be sung during the show. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full-length play adapted from the classic novel by Charles Dickens. |
| Synopsis | On the night of Christmas Eve, the miserly and embittered Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by a series of ghosts. |
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| The Christmas Carol [Version 4] by Anthony Paul Lashley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. The number of carol singers is unspecified. The author suggests (but does not insist) that when Scrooge is reformed, he might be played by a different actor to emphesise the change! Something for productions to play with. |
| Run Time | Around 57 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Lyrics to a number of (out-of-copyright) carols are embedded in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act play with songs. Multiple locations, but indicated by lighting and furniture rather than full-stage sets. |
| Synopsis | Dickens' Christmas tale of redemption is given a little comic twist and run at a smarter pace, but still delivers the required moral lesson along with the laughs. |
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A Christmas Carol by Andrew Yates
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 43. Chorus. Flexible cast - several scenes require lots of extras, many with speaking parts. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for seven original songs are provided with the producer's copy of the script. (The script also suggests the use of the carol 'God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen') |
| Style | Adaptation of Dickens classic tale of redemption as a musical play. |
| Synopsis | On Christmas eve, miser Ebenezer Scrooge receives a visit from the ghostly apparition of his former business partner, Jacob Marley. Marley's ghost is followed by three more spectral visitors, who show visions of Scrooge's past present and future in an effort to show the old skinflint the error of his ways. |
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| Extras | 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
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| Christmas Cat and the Pudding Pirates by Jeanette Ranger & Christopher Lillicrap |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Chorus. The chorus of additional ratlings is optional. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for the overture and 9 original songs are included with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Musical family show - not a pantomime, but containing some of the elements - musical numbers, a comedy cooking scene, over the top heroes and villains, a magical helping hand, and plenty of audience participation. Single set. |
| Synopsis | The good ship Santa Claus is sailing home with all the precious cargo needed for Christmas. When it's hijacked by the rat pirate Jolly Roger, it's up to Christmas the ship's cat, along with the ship's cook and a magical mermaid, to save the day. On the way there are excellent songs, jokes and physical comedy. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Vocal demo tracks for the 9 songs from Christmas Cat and the Pudding Pirates by Jeanette Ranger and Christopher Lillicrap.
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| The Christmas Play by Peter Lancaster Walker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. The chorus is an optional mixture of choir and extras! Could be played by children or a mixture of adults and children. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suitable Christmas carols are suggested in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Fifteen minute play. Simple hospital set, used to frame the nativity play within the play. |
| Synopsis | Missing the school Nativity play, thanks to a broken toe, Sarah is sulking, but the nurse has an idea. Soon a cast is assembling for the hospital ward Nativity and Sarah gets to sing along after all. |
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| Christmas Present by Jim and Jane Jeffries |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 14. Minimum Female roles = 16. Minimum total with doubling = 41. Minimum total without doubling = 51. No chorus. Aimed at a mixed company of adults and children. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Nativity play, but not one for young kids! A large cast piece, probably for a church group. Elements of comedy, but a serious core. |
| Synopsis | A modern retelling of the Nativity - a faithfull following of the biblical accounts, give or take a couple of thousand years, featuring business tycoons, mobsters, fast food workers and homeless people, plus assorted Trekkies! |
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| Christopher Columbus Was A Brat by Richard Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Characters comprise of a crusty old hobo and a teenage girl |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act fantasy with a hilltop setting. |
| Synopsis | CT is on her way to the other side of the mountain. Not to, really, but 'away from'. In her special quiet place she meets a strange man, dressed as a hobo who has some important things to tell her. |
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| Cinderella by Stuart Ardern & Bob Heather |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Ugly sisters assumed to be played by Male, Principal Boy by Female. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for two songs, plus an additional set of original lyrics supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. Other songs suggested in the production notes. |
| Style | British Pantomime. Packed with jokes, wordplay and magic. Running jokes and audience participation. |
| Synopsis | The Prince must marry (otherwise his stipend will be cut off) and holds a ball to choose a bride. Cinderella is banned by her ugly sisters and cruel stepmother, but her fairy godmother ensures a happy ending |
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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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Cinderella [10 Minute Version] by Jonathan Edgington
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. We've assumed that Cinderella and the Fairy Godmother are both played female, but it's a pantomime and you can cast it however suits you. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script suggests one optional popular song. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Short prose panto telling a familiar story with a few modern twists. |
| Synopsis | Against the wishes of her evil stepsisters, Cinderella dreams of going to the ball and meeting a Prince. She may get her wish, with help from her robot Zippers and a Fairy Godmother with an Amazon Prime subscription. |
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| Cinderella [Sixties] by Mark Jack |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Thirteen principal parts (to which you are at liberty to apply the usual panto juxtapositions), plus chorus with cameo roles. |
| Run Time | Around 150 minutes. [Estimated!] Experiential run time (first production) 2 hours 5 minutes. |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 12 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British Pantomime. |
| Synopsis | The traditional fairy story of Cinderella set in the swinging Sixties - Groovy! |
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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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