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Old King Cole [Part-Rhyming Panto] by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Many of the characters are nominally male (the title King is a clue), but it's a panto so you can cast it however you like! |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 8 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | One-act British pantomime told partly in verse. |
Synopsis | Old King Cole is a merry old soul, but the nine other kings of the land are less friendly, as they plot to steal Cole's crown and usurp his throne. However, they soon realise there is someone more villainous than them, who will use every trick in the panto villain book to thwart their plans. |
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Pantomania by Mike Sparks Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Whilst Cinderella and the fairy are nominally female, this is a pantomime, and it doesn't really matter who plays which gender. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script suggests the use of one (optional) song. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A short rhyming pantomime with no set requirements. |
Synopsis | There's Cinderella, Jack (of beanstalk fame), a dame, a comedy character, an evil henchman and a fairy. All the ingredients of a pantomime, but which one? |
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Rapunzel [Verse] by Peter Bond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One character is optional and silent. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short verse play (probably, but not necessarily for kids). |
Synopsis | A couple offend a witch and hand over their daughter, Rapunzel, to her by way of recompense. Rapunzel is locked-up in a tower, accessible only by a window - with the aid of her hair as a climbing rope. She stays there until she is visited by a handsome prince and the audience is visited by an unexpected plot twist! |
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Rhyming Aladdin by Stuart Ardern |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. This is an English pantomime, so Widow Twankey could well be played as a pantomime dame and Aladdin as a principal boy (so male playing female and female playing male) |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act Rhyming English pantomime. Simple sets, mainly simple props (give or take a laundry basket on wheels). |
Synopsis | Aladdin, a washerwoman's son falls for a beautiful princess. In his urgent need for wealth, he is tricked into accompanying the wicked Abanaza on an expedition to retrieve a magic lamp. Abanaza traps Aladdin in a cave, but with a lot of magical help Aladdin escapes and (after a few twists and turns) love triumphs. |
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Rhyming Ali Baba by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | One set of song lyrics included, to the tune of 'Wild Rover'. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A simple version of 'Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves' told in rhyme, minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | Like all pantomime heroes, Ali Baba is broke. On his way to look for work, he witnesses a band of thieves hiding treasure in a secret cave. He overhears their password and helps himself to their treasure. Unfortunately, the thieves find out and track him down by hiding in storage jars. |
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Rhyming Beauty and The Beast by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Characters include a talking horse. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A simple, humorous rendition of the tale of Beauty and the Beast in one-act and in rhyme. |
Synopsis | A merchant goes to trade his wares and bring back gifts for his three daughters. Two of them, greedy and vain, desire jewellery, the other, fair and good-natured, wishes for a rose. But the merchant plucks a rose from the garden of the Beast, and he must pledge the Beast his daughter's hand in marriage to save his own life. |
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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 Carol by Richard Coleman Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children, assumed to be played by children. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A simple, humorous rendition of Dickens' A Christmas Carol in rhyme, minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | On Christmas eve, miserly Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his old business partner and three other ghosts. Being shown the error of his ways, he then sets out to make Christmas happy for others. |
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Rhyming Cinderella by Richard Coleman Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A simple, humorous rendition of the Cinderella story in rhyme, minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | Cinderella is banned from the ball - a point at which a fairy godmother, a pumpkin and mice really come in handy... |
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Rhyming Jack and the Beanstalk by Richard Coleman Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Opportunity for non-speaking chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Jack and the Beanstalk told in rhyme by a narrator and small cast. Minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | Through a combination of poverty and gormlessness, Jack sells the family cow for a handful of magic beans, from which grows a beanstalk reaching to the clouds. Up climbs Jack, with girlfriend Nancy, and at the top they find a giant, a goose, a golden egg and a lot of trouble! |
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