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Once Upon a Time by Paul Barron & Sarah Dyson
Best Seller Performance by Oswestry Musical Theatre Company awarded NODA West Midlands (District 2) best panto, 2015. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. Usual pantomime juxtapositions - dame played by a man, principal boy by a girl. After that, you can make up your own mind! |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Some songs suggested in the Producer's copy of the script - others are left to the native wit of the production team. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Two-act English Pantomime (physical comedy, jokes, cross-dressing, that sort of thing.) |
| Synopsis | The daughter of Cinderella is about to marry the son of Snow White, banishing evil from Pantoland forever or so the ancient prophecy says. Naturally the baddies aren't taking this lying down! Evelyn, the wickedest of wicked witches, spirits Princess Lottie and her two idiot helpers Nick and Nack away from the palace and drops them on the edge of Pantoland in the hopes that Prince Marvellous will despair and abandon his plans to marry her. Of course, the Prince embarks on a rescue mission, but what lies in store for him? |
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| Once Upon A Witch by Alan Robinson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Characters include a dragon and a hand puppet! |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for six songs, with new lyrics to a couple. (Others could be substituted at the discretion of the production team.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British pantomime - a fantasia on fairytale themes! |
| Synopsis | Once upon a time, Fairyland is in a financial pickle and has had to downsize its workforce, meaning there can be only one prince, princess, wolf and witch to tell every story. To make matters worse, the Fairyland storybook is missing and all the tales are getting tangled together. In the midst of this muddle, the wicked witch spies an opportunity to magic up a bad ending, but she can't do it alone... Could her spellbinding new apprentice, Aurora, hold the key to her destiny or does the girl have her own wish to fulfill? |
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| Panto in Snowalot by David K Bainbridge & Michael Lucas |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Characters include Australian penguins and a two-headed gatekeeper. |
| Run Time | Around 76 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script lists suggestions for 14 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British Pantomime - traditional in style but with a wholly original story. |
| Synopsis | The evil Sun Queen is determined to destroy the snowy kingdom of Snowalot, so King Belchalot and Queen Laughalot must set a quest - destroy the Sun Queen and win the hand of Princess Sneezalot! But the Princess herself is determined to go on the quest, as is the boy who loves her... |
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| Panto in the Jungle by David K Bainbridge & Michael Lucas |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 43. Chorus. Twelve principals plus chorus (some of whom are animals.) |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggestions for 15 songs are made in the producer's copy of the script Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomimes (with all that entails) with a jungle setting. (First published February 2010, revised edition published May 2023.) |
| Synopsis | An original panto tale about Prince Mabooboo taking the throne of his tribe, only to be usurped by the evil witch doctor Witchetty Grub. Can Ginger and Nuts, Dame Doris and Cara Loft save the day? Of course they can. |
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| Panto in the Stone Age by David K Bainbridge & Michael Lucas |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Nineteen songs are suggested in 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 various settings. |
| Synopsis | It is the year 10,000 BC and the Mayoress of Sandstone Hills is celebrating her birthday. Granny Granite is baking the perfect birthday cake, but the evil Chief of Police and his two Constables have a scheme to ruin the day. When the Mayoress falls dangerously ill, Granny Granite, her son Flint and their pet dinosaur Rex must find an antidote. |
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| The Panto of the Opera by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. The usual pantomime juxtapositions with a dame played by a man and the principal boy played by a girl. Also includes cameo appearances by Toulouse-Lautrec and a pantomime horse. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music (piano and vocal) for 12 original songs is supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | English pantomime - a fantastic tale (in this case based on the gothic horror story 'The Phantom of the Opera') told with songs, jokes, puns and slapstick. |
| Synopsis | Mysterious goings-on at the Paris Opera house - the new owner discovers that her premises are threatened with closure by villainous English Lord, Frank Lee, that she is under perpetual scrutiny from a Health and Safety inspector and that the Opera House is haunted by the mysterious Phantom, who seems to be giving singing lessons to Christine, a newcomer who has attracted the attention of the wealthy patron, Raoul. Not only that, but the owner is under siege from a stream of composers who want to pitch ideas for new shows to her (some of which might sound a little familiar) and, what's more, a gold statue has gone missing from the roof. Can Raoul save Christine from the Phantom? Can anyone save the Opera House from Frank? |
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The Panto Puzzle by Mary Portalska
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. There are 13 named characters, but four are off-stage voices (could be recorded or played by anyone who isn't on stage at the time), one actor is intended to play three on-stage roles and another could play three. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A mixed-up pantomime adventure. (Non-musical, though there would be nothing to stop a production adding songs at appropriate points.) |
| Synopsis | Dame Dolly and Cheeky Charlie turn up at the theatre to find out that the pantomime has been cancelled this year. The caretaker shows them the boxes containing previous pantos, to discover that three things have been stolen from Cinderella's box by the sorceress Evilena. Dolly and Charlie must visit three other pantomimes to get them back. |
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| Pantostein by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Chorus. Ten principals and a chorus. The chorus is written to be played by two people, but could be played by more. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 4 songs (with original lyrics to three of them). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A panto for a small cast.
Frankenstein as a pantomime? Shelley not! |
| Synopsis | The most gruesome pantomime of them all! Follow Boris and Bertha as they investigate creepy goings on in Cemeteria, a mountain top village in the heart of Transylvania, where dark secrets and mad scientists dwell side by side. Dracula, Dr Frank N Stein and Igor as well as the Werewolf all play their part. All the elements of traditional family entertainment are here - songs, laughter and unspeakable violence. A brand new script full of fun, slapstick and things that go bump in the night! |
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** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
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| The Parrots Of Penzance by Andrew Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 89 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of this script contains suggestions for four songs, with alternate lyrics for songs 1&2. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length pantomime. |
| Synopsis | Dame Patsy’s seriously unhygienic Cornish Pasty factory is under threat as ferreter Bill arrives to deal with the vermin problem. Meanwhile wreckage from a ship wreck reveals Edmundo and Consuela, two valuable giant Peruvian parrots and the race to capture them descends into hilarious panto fun. |
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** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| Peggy's Pirate Panto by David and Fiona Barker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 23. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 96 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The script has spots for up to 16 songs and dances (plus overture and entr'acte), with some examples suggested in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime, traditional style, but an original story - albeit with many familiar pirate tropes thrown in. |
| Synopsis | Peggy wants to follow in the footsteps of her late pirate mother and recover her fabulous lost treasure, but her father wants to keep her safe. Sadly for him, the wicked pirate Captain Crook needs Peggy to get that treasure. |
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