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| Rhyming Captain Hook by Richard 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. [Estimated!] |
| 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.
Note that as with all adaptations of Peter Pan, we pay half the author's royalties to Great Ormond Street Hospital |
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| Rhyming Christmas Gift by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. All characters are adults. (Except the elves.) Opportunity for a chorus as a choir of carol singers. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A simple verse play. Assumed to be done with minimal set - imagination substituting for scenery. Simple props. |
| Synopsis | A liberal adaptation (updated and versified) of the O. Henry story 'The Gift of the Magi'. An arguing couple demonstrate their love through Christmas gifts. |
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Rhyming Robin Hood by Richard Coleman
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. Most of the roles are nominally male, but don't let that put you off casting female Merry Men, for example! |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | English pantomime (more or less) as a short verse play. |
| Synopsis | Robin Hood and his Merry Men hatch a plan to rob the evil Sheriff of Nottingham and give back to the poor. The Sheriff finds out about Robin's plan and invents a scheme of his own to catch the outlaws. A few rhymes, imprisonments and swordfights later, good triumphs once again. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Rhyming Treasure Island by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. More major female roles than the original tale. (It should be noted that female pirates were not unknown!) There is a chorus of three pirates which could be expanded to as many pirates are aboard your ship. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Rhyming comedy (with some of the characteristics of a British panto). |
| Synopsis | Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of buried treasure adapted for the stage as a verse play. |
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| Robbins And Caruso by Ian McCutcheon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Optional chorus size at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Six song suggestions are provided with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length pantomime, with island-based settings! |
| Synopsis | In this departure from the more traditional panto, successful scientist Robbins quits the rat race - to settle on a desert island, accompanied by his faithful friend, gorilla Caruso. A passing ship makes landfall and the evil Lord Ruffbottom and his scurvy crew disrupt their idyll. The action-packed script provides fun for all ages. |
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| Robby Nudd by Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. All the characters are adults, assumed to be played by children or a mixture of adults and children (with particularly the role of Sheriff and Friar open to adults). |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music (Lyrics and music by Chris Donovan, additional music by Adrian Watts) for 7 songs plus two reprises is included with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | A sideways look at the Robin Hood legend! |
| Synopsis | Robby Nudd has become an outlaw because he's too small to join the police! Robby and his band of outlaws haven't robbed anyone in a long time and the women they have brought to the forest are sick of being cooks. The girls rebel and leave the forest. The men go to Nottingham Fair to try and win the archery contest, win the bag of gold and buy the girls some proper ingredients to cook with. The resulting clash with the Sheriff has an unexpected resolution. |
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** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| Robin Hood by Bob Heather and Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. Since this is a pantomime, Robin Hood's Merry Men need not actually be men! This principle may well apply to other characters. Includes a pantomime horse. |
| Run Time | Around 150 minutes. [Estimated!] (Timing allows for 16 songs!) Plaza Theatre production, directed by Bob Heather, ran to 2 hrs. |
| Music | The script includes place-holders for 17 songs and dances. The Producer's Copy of the script includes specific suggestions for some of them. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime - a family show packed with heroes, villains, damsels in distress, and foolishness of many kinds! |
| Synopsis | When Robin Hood returns to Nottingham after a stint in the crusades, he meets the Sheriff's ward, Maid Marion and falls in love, only to find out that the Sheriff himself has designs on er. Marion isn't the only thing the Sheriff desires, the whole of Sherwood Forest is under threat of his evil plans when Robin's outlaws discover plans for the forest to be chopped down for the Sheriff's new money-grabbing venture. Robin and his band of Merry Men with the aid of Holly Jockey-Sticks, the woodland Fairy, Nellie Scarlet (Marion's nanny) and her son Wally set out to thwart the evil Sheriff once and for all to ensure good will always win over evil. |
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| Robin Hood - The Pantomime by Bob Hammond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 31. Chorus. Many characters are written male, but this is a pantomime, so the casting is very flexible! The minimum male set is the Sheriff, Lord Knowse, Tuck, Euphonia and Richard (doubling a Villager), with Robin Hood, Marion and Ruth the Sooth played by females. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | There are places for songs in the script, but no songs specified - therefore all music is at the discretion of the production team. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime with strong characters and drama peppered with jokes. |
| Synopsis | The eternal battle between Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham, played-out against the background of a missing king and an impending wedding. A tale of argumentative outlaws, talking trees and a pantomime dog! |
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| Robin Hood [Version 2] by Vicky Orman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. Variable chorus size |
| Run Time | Around 140 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Details of some custom lyrics to well-known tunes in the Producer's copy. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length pantomime with various indoor and outdoor settings. |
| Synopsis | Dame Nursie and Red Riding Hood, Robin's sister, recruit the Merry Men to retrieve the magic arrow and free King Richard - who languishes in the evil Sheriff's dungeons. The Sheriff’s henchmen, together with the witch and a big bad wolf try to thwart them, but good defeats evil in the end. |
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| Robin Hood and his Merry Men by Bob Hammond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Variable chorus size at Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] This is dependent on the songs chosen. |
| Music | No song suggestions included. All to be chosen by the Director or Producer. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A simplified version of Robin Hood - the pantomime. |
| Synopsis | The greedy Sheriff forces the noble Robin of Locksley to become an outlaw in Sherwood, fighting to regain his confiscated estate and win back his darling Marion. With King Richard held for ransom in the Crusades, who will defeat the wicked Sheriff? |
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