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| Henry's Magic Jam by Ian McCutcheon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Chorus. The usual pantomime juxtapositions - female playing principal boy, male playing dame - plus a pantomime dog. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A list of suggested songs is provided in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Original story, but traditional pantomime format - lots of jokes and a pantomime dog! |
| Synopsis | Henry Logg's jam has a magic ingredient that stops people aging - and the villainous Ebenezer Grunge is after the formula. It's down to Tom, the hero, to save the day (and win the hand of Henry's daughter, Anna) with the help of Billy, the apprentice, Dame Lucy Lastic and Hopsack, the pantomime dog! |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Hickory Dickory Dock by Luke Reilly |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. It's a pantomime, make your own mind up as to who plays what, especially as the characters include mice and spiders. (The chorus numbers are very flexible, including the Grand Old Duke of York's regiment.) |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script contains suggestions for 14 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime with a neat original story built around nursery rhyme characters and a wicked spider. |
| Synopsis | People and animals are going missing, and it's up to Little Miss Muffet, brilliant detective, to find them! Before long it's clear that Arachnia, the evil Spider Queen, is behind the disappearances and has her sights set on world domination! |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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High Steaks by Andrew Bawn
Production by Chelford Players won the Adjudicator's Award at the Wilmslow Festival of One-Act Plays 2019 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Three characters are written as female, but can be male. One character is an off-stage voice only. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with two simple (park and garden) sets, suitable for adult or child actors. |
| Synopsis | Buster the dog fancies himself as a criminal mastermind, despite being slightly dim. With some help from his friends - Roxy, Max, and Smokey the cat - he might get away with daylight robbery. |
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Hijacked Fairytales by Kevin Jannetts
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 34. Minimum total without doubling = 40. Chorus. The main characters were written for kids aged 9 to 15. Some of the chorus roles might easily be played by younger children. Jack talks in Scots, somewhat reminiscent of 'Oor Wullie'. [In our opinion, learning this dialect is well worth the effort!] |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script contains suggestions for 16 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act comedy musical play for kids. |
| Synopsis | Jack's a bit of a lad, and he's eager to seize a chance to get his own social worker, just like his friends have. The trouble is, Geraldine is actually a secret Fairy Godmother, and Jack finds himself in Fairytale land helping folks there to earn his way back home again. |
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| A History Of The Olympic Games - A Class Play by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 30. Minimum total without doubling = 37. No chorus. Characters include a Greek god and a horse! |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play for a full school class. |
| Synopsis | The history of the Olympic Games, beginning at the ancient games with a personal appearance by Zeus, followed by a whirlwind tour of the modern games, complete with a selection of famous medal winners. |
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| A History of the Olympics - Readers' Theatre by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 36. No chorus. Six plays with six characters in each. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A set of six mini-plays (with run times around 10 minutes) designed for 'readers theatre' (i.e. use for small group reading), though they could also be performed as plays. No set requirements. Producer's Copy includes a quiz for each play. |
| Synopsis | Olympic history, comparing the ancient games to the modern olympics and studying the development of the modern Olympic games through references to events, sportsmen and controversies. |
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| The Holiday Show by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 44. No chorus. Lots of characters, but lots of flexibility for doubling. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A series of weather-themed sketches linked by the format of a fictional TV news/current affairs show. |
| Synopsis | A TV show about the British Weather and global warming, designed for a class presentation. |
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| Hood by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] Plus additional time for songs and dances. |
| Music | Production notes list recommended songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Not a true British Pantomime (lacks, for example, the ritual audience participation and pantomime dame), but contains many of the ingredients - plenty of jokes and extravagant characters. |
| Synopsis | The Sheriff of Nottingham has taken over Loxley Manor and plans to marry Marian. Prince John is coming to the wedding, together with his personal assistant and a passing bishop. Robin Hood assembles his Merry Men but with unexpected plans. |
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| Hood - The Sequel by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. No formatl chorus, but the number of guards and jailers has some flexibility. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids. In theory, four locations, but no real set requirements. |
| Synopsis | 'Good' King Richard is dead and 'Bad' Prince (now 'King') John has succeeded to the throne. However the King has been forced to sign the Magna Carta which means that he needs to behave himself. This results in Robin Hood being able to give up his outlaw life in Sherwood Forest and return to Loxley Manor as Sir Robin of Loxley. Now married to his beloved Lady Marian, all seems well with the world. Not quite so, for Robin's old nemesis, the Sheriff of Nottingham, now unemployed as a result of council cutbacks, is hatching a fiendish plot to frame Robin for a heinous crime against the state. |
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| Hoodwinked by Andrew Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A list of suggested songs is provided in the Producer's copy of the script, with some original lyrics to familiar tunes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length pantomime. |
| Synopsis | This pantomime brings fun with some new situations for the familiar Robin Hood characters, who use innovative means to thwart the dastardly sheriff. |
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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
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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