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| Androcles et Leo by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 23. Chorus. Most of the characters are written male (even the lion), for reasons of historical verisimilitude. Don't let that put you off. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama (played for comedy) in which the protagonists speak Latin and the narrators, where necessary, translate. |
| Synopsis | The optimistic story of the slip-away slave meeting the limping lion - with a side-order of the private life of Emperor Claudius. |
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| Apparently Not by Hayley Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. Principal characters are four girls (plus the school principal and a teacher). The chorus is the bullies gang - number unspecified. The chorus lines could be spoken by one person or shared amongst several. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act play, set in and around a school. |
| Synopsis | A new girl in school, is forced to choose between supporting her new friend and fitting in with a gang of bullies, and makes the easier choice. |
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| Arawen's Dragon by Martin Hailey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song or music suggestions 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 an original storyline. |
| Synopsis | Everyone thinks that the unseasonably cold weather is odd, but they don’t suspect it's a wicked spell until Arawen, the Baron's daughter, is given a magical dragon as a birthday present. Cuthbert breaks the spell and restores the sunshine, but becomes the witch's new target... |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Around the World in Eighty Days by Richard Cowling |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 54. Chorus. In order to be faithful to Jules Verne, most of the characters are written male. How you cast them is up to you! (For example, whilst it was not so in Fogg's day, the Reform Club is now open to women!) |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal score for seventeen songs and nineteen pieces of incidental music is provided with the producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | Full-length school musical based on Jules Verne's novel. By the nature of the story, there are a lot of locations, but these can be presented in as simple or complex a way as you please. |
| Synopsis | Phileas Fogg accepts a wager to travel around the World in Eighty days. Armed with only Passepartout (his trusty French manservant) and pursued by a detective, he sets out, venturing via Egypt, India (where he acquires a princess!), Japan and the USA. |
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** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
** Conductor's score and band parts (Clarinet/Alto Sax/Tenor Sax, Trumpet, Trombone, Bass, and Keyboard) for 'Around the World in Eighty Days' by Richard Cowling
** Midi Files for the 36 songs and instrumentals from Around the World in Eighty Days by Richard Cowling. The files contain the band arrangements plus vocal lines.
** Backing Tracks for the 36 songs and musical pieces from Around the World in Eighty Days by Richard Cowling. (The tracks are the orchestrated instrumentals, with additional instruments playing the vocal lines.)
** Vocal recordings of all the songs from Around the World in Eighty Days by Richard Cowling. (Vocals by Richard Cowling and Leanne Cooper.)
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Babes in the Wood by tlc Creative
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Some original lyrics included in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime. Strong characters, slapstick, visual jokes, puns and mayhem |
| Synopsis | All is not well in Nottingham! The wicked Sheriff is growing rich on the many taxes he is forcing the poor townsfolk to pay and he is just about to become even richer. Pip and Penny, recently orphaned and heirs to vast fortunes have been entrusted into his care and he is hatching a horrible plan to make sure that he will inherit the cash and marry Maid Marion into the bargain. All that stands in his way is the very brave and dashing Robin Hood and his Merry Men, the fearsome Nanny Coddle, brainless Dave Knave (the wannabe outlaw) and a rather overworked Fairy. Will they succeed in thwarting the evil plot and beat the Sheriff and his villainous henchmen? |
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** 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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Babes in the Wood [Short Version] by Geoff Bamber
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 22. Chorus. The chorus (Captain Sprague's crew) is optional. There are nominally four police constables, but these could be increased or decreased in number. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | There are opportunities for songs and dances, but no specific songs suggested in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act comedy (somewhere near an English pantomime, but not exactly that!) for kids. Nominally 5 locations, but no set requirements, so could be performed without set changes. |
| Synopsis | When prosperous businessman Edwin Merryweather is mysteriously lost at sea together with his wife, Constance, their two children, Lizzie and Tizzy, are placed in the care of their Aunt Lydia and her new husband, Lemuel Viper.
Viper has his sights set on the Merryweather fortune but he cannot get his hands on that while Lizzie and Tizzy are alive. He hatches a plot to have the girls done to death in Spooky Wood but the ineptitude of the hired killers, the interference of a posse of belligerent elves and the appearance a rather sinister old lady ensure that his plans do not run smoothly. |
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| Babes in the Wood [Version 2] by Bob Heather & Roger Lamb |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. Dame assumed to be played by Male, Principal Boy by Female. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Lyrics for one song included in the script, all other songs at the discretion of the producer. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British Pantomime with traditional pantomime characters - dame, village idiot, goodies and baddies, slapstick and comedy.
Published in 2005, this revised version published 2011. |
| Synopsis | A battle between the Sheriff of Nottingham and Robin Hood over the custody of the Sheriff's wards, aided or confused by the village idiot, Tom Piper, his mother, Robin's Merry Men and the Sheriff's incompetent deputies. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Be Careful What You Wish For by Jon Boustead |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 22. Chorus. The author suggests (but does not insist) that the Chorus consists of five or more actors. In addition to their occasional speaking and animated roles, the chorus perform physical theatre, becoming parts of the set and props. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act fantasy play for children with various simple settings. Drama and opportunities for physical theatre. |
| Synopsis | A group of children visit a strange castle and are taken on a salutary journey by the castle keepers on which the children's wishes are fulfilled. The children learn the importance of being careful what they wish for. |
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| Beauty and The Beast by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. The usual pantomime ambiguity - Belle and the witch are definitely female. The Beast and the Merchant definitely male. Mrs. Bustle could be female or male (a pantomime dame), the prince is probably a 'principal boy' (played by a girl). |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for 11 original songs (counting two reprises) supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | English pantomime - puns, slapstick, visual jokes, songs. (It should be stressed that this is pantomime and not the Disney version of the story!) |
| Synopsis | The arrogant prince is turned into The Beast by a scheming witch. He can only redeem himself if someone loves him for what he is. Into the Beast's castle comes a hapless merchant, father of the beautiful Belle. The merchant incurs the Beast's wrath, but when it is time for him to return to face justice from the Beast, Belle returns in his place. |
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** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano 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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| Beauty and The Beast [Short Version] by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. The chorus is optional - playing dockworkers and possibly used to perform musical numbers (not included in the script). |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy for kids. Several settings but intended to be performed with minimal scenery. |
| Synopsis | Joshua Harcourt faces financial ruin. With a wife, three daughters and a house in the country to support, the outlook is bleak. A chance encounter with a rich and handsome prince looking, as handsome princes do, for true love, provides him with a chance of salvation. All that is needed is for Joshua's youngest and sweetest daughter, Belle, to fall for the prince. Unfortunately this prince has fallen foul of a witch who has turned him into a hideous beast. Can Belle's sweet disposition persuade her to ignore the prince's appearance and can the prince be restored to his former handsome self? As it all ends, as tradition demands, happily ever after, then the answer to both questions must be 'yes'. |
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