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The Pied Piper [Version 6] by Sharon Hulm |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 23. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 118 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 14 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Full-length British pantomime. (Contains genuinely cheesy jokes featuring genuine cheese!) |
Synopsis | The town of Hamelin has a problem. A plague of rascally rodents are stealing gold and sausages and with only a scaredy-cat available to deal with them there is only one thing to do - accept the offer of the Pied Piper to get rid of the rats. But there’s a snag, the Piper wants a bag of gold as payment and there just isn't any gold left in the town and he won’t accept an I.O.U. |
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The Pied Piper and the Tail of the Rat King by Peter Nuttall |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. The usual pantomime juxtapositions apply. |
Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's script includes the music of an original song, together with a brief reprise. Other songs may be added at the discretion of the production team. |
Style | Pantomime treatment of the Pied Piper (although, to fit with the constraints of panto, a lot of the story has changed!) |
Synopsis | A new twist on an old tail...sorry, tale. The Pied Piper leads all the rats away to a secret cave so that he can become Mayor of the town, but he soon reveals himself to be greedier and more of a pest than the rats ever were. Brave Rattles the rat has to try to free the rats and the town! |
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin [Version 2] by Hilary Mackelden |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Most of the characters are written male, but this is panto and nobody will mind if genders are switched! Chorus of rats, dogs and cats is intended to be played by children, |
Run Time | Around 140 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The script contains places for fourteen songs, suggestions for most of which are included in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | British pantomime. A full-length show, with very simple sets, so easy to stage in a non-standard environment. |
Synopsis | The classic tale of the Pied Piper told in panto style with a happy ending! Hamelin's greedy mayor is up for re-election, and when the town is invaded by rats, he hires a piper to get rid of them, but then he won't pay up. |
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin [Version 3] by Tina & Robert Burbidge |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. It's a pantomime, with the usual ration of gender-flexibility, plus any number of rats! |
Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 17 songs, with some orginal lyrics. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | The story of the Pied Piper reshaped into a very satisfactory pantomime format. A good line in jokes, with plenty of cheese-related humour involved! |
Synopsis | Alvin's a musician who loves the Mayor's daughter, but can't marry her because he's too poor. When rats plague the town, the Mayor uses them as scapegoats for the town's misery, but if Alvin can rid the town of vermin he can marry Ellie and become wealthy.... |
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin [Version 4] by Lorraine Mason |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 22. Chorus. Flexible numbers, with choruses of townsfolk, children and rats. |
Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 17 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | British pantomime (with German setting!) |
Synopsis | Rattenfanger the piper rids the town of rats but takes his revenge when the Mayor can't pay the agreed fee. Lots of panto action with a German Dame Pumpernickel, Hero Fritz and Villainous Rats, not forgetting sweet Anneleise or the panto cow! |
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The Pied Piper by Bob Heather |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. The usual pantomime juxtapositions are assumed, with Heidi the pantomime dame played by a man and Ralf, the principal boy, played by a young woman. |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Two sets of lyrics supplied with the script, all other songs are at the discretion of the producer. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | English pantomime - comedy, silliness and puns! [Originally published in 2006, revised edition published 2012.] |
Synopsis | Hamlin is over-run with rats, too many for the Councillors Hans and Nees to deal with so the Council decide to respond to an advert in the local paper for a Piper who claims to be able to rid anywhere of four-legged pests. Unfortunately the Mayor can't afford to pay, so the Piper runs off with the Mayor's daughter Greta and the village children. Will Ralf and the other villagers be able to rescue Greta and the children from the Piper before it's too late? |
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Pinocchio by Jane Spamer |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. It's a pantomime - make your own mind up as to who plays what. Includes a pantomime donkey |
Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | British pantomime. (There are positions for songs and dances in the script, but no specific suggestions for music.) |
Synopsis | The classic children's tale given a panto twist, with Gepetto replaced by Dame Gepetto and a new love story woven into the narrative. |
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Pinocchio [Version 2] by Dawn Cairns |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. Chorus size can be flexible |
Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] Variable timing with your choice of songs. |
Music | Producer's copy contains 17 song suggestions Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A traditional full length Pantomime in two acts retelling the story of Pinnochio, including songs, dances and plenty of audience participation. |
Synopsis | This family show is brought to life with plenty of pantomime characters, including a wicked witch, fairies and dame Mamma Macaroni who indulge in lots of knockabout fun. |
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Pinocchio [Version 3] by Andrew O'Leary |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Variable chorus size at Producer's discretion |
Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length pantomime in two acts re-telling the story of Pinocchio, and including a dame. |
Synopsis | Gepetto is a talented puppetmaker, but he really wants a son. Using the last of his money he makes a wonderful puppet and wish. Now Pinocchio has to fulfil Gepetto’s wish, avoid temptation and become a real boy - Pantomime style! |
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Pinocchio [Version 5] by Dave Jeanes |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Eleven existing songs to be performed are suggested in the Producer's script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Two-act British pantomime on a variety of settings. |
Synopsis | Quite by chance one day, an unnoticeable log of forest wood is transformed by a magical blue fairy into Geppetto the wood carver’s dearest wish - a son to call his own. But how can a poor wood carver guide the young boy? There are so many things he must learn. Guided by the fairy’s good intentions and helped along by the villagers, Pinocchio gets involved with fire eaters, marionettes, a fox, a cat and a very lazy boy called Lampwick, as he progresses towards his real boyhood. There’s even a giant shark at the end... |
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