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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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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files ** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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Puss in Boots (Small Cast) by James Barry |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. King can double as the Ogre. We assume that Harry (the hero) is played by a man and puss is played by a woman. (But this is pantomime, so make your own mind up!) |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | One original song score provided with the Producer's Copy of the Script. Other song spots listed in the script, to be used at the discretion of the producer. |
Style | Traditional pantomime, with jokes, slapstick and magic. |
Synopsis | Harry, the miller's youngest son, inherits the magical talking cat (who refuses to answer to 'Tiddles'). Harry falls for the princess, but to win her hand, he has to confront the ogre in a battle of magical transformations. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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Puss in Boots [10-Minute Version] by Jonathan Edgington |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Nine on-stage character and the off-stage voice of an ogre. Some of the characters are written with a particular gender but it's a pantomime, so anyone can play anything. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for two songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A short, pacy, funny pantomime treatment of the traditional story. Two song suggestions. |
Synopsis | Schrodinger the cat is inherited by miller's son Norris, and soon puts into action a plan to win his master the hand of a princess, all while dealing with a shape-shifting ogre. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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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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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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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 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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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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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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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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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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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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Rhyming Mother Goose by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Mother Goose (the British pantomime version, more-or-less) told in rhyme by a narrator and small cast. Minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | As a favour from a fairy, Mother Goose acquires a bird that lays golden eggs. Unfortunately, it's a second hand goose, and its previous owner wants it back... |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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