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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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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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Pantomime Academy by Helen Spencer |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 16. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 52. No chorus. The script as written features 52 speaking roles and 3 non-speaking roles but can easily be adapted to suit larger or smaller groups. Most roles are gender-neutral. |
Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producers' copy of the script contains suggestions for well-known songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | One-act pantomime ideal for performance by Key Stage 2 students. |
Synopsis | The Pantomime Academy is putting on a big show to celebrate its centenery, but poor Maurice seems destined to always play the back of the cow. Follow him on his journey to be recognised as someone greater. |
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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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The Princess and the Pea [Version 2] by Peter Bond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 89 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of this script contains suggestions for ten songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full length pantomime adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale. |
Synopsis | Princess Zabaglioni went missing as a baby, but Fairy Fettucine is sure she still lives as a peasant and will one day become a Princess again. Just as Prince Tiramisu of Trattoria is looking for a bride, as it happens! Meanwhile, the evil wizard Vermicelli persuades the Queen to outlaw chocolate. We also meet three soldiers called Here, There and Everywhere, an abominable snowman, and a rabbit called Frog. |
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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 [Version 8] by Stephen and Rachel Humphreys |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. The character numbers assume that two people play Daisy the cow. |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script lists suggestions for 5 songs (including one nursery rhyme with alternative lyrics embedded in the script.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | British pantomime with an original take on the traditional story of the talking cat. |
Synopsis | Since Jack defeated the giant at the top of the beanstalk he and his mum Dame Doris are affluent at last. However, Mittens the evil cat who can think and talk is planning to take over the Kingdom which threatens their wealth and King Edgar's throne. His evil intentions are thwarted by the resourceful Puss in Boots aided by Daisy the talking cow. |
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Rapunzel - A Tangled Tale by Peter Zednik |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for six songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A fun retelling introduces a twist to the hirsute tale in a fast-action pantomime with all the usual panto suspects and more. |
Synopsis | A distinctively different Rapunzel is locked in her tower by the wicked witch Vileda Scrunge and after many adventures Prince Pompadour, assisted by hairdresser Dame Wanda Wave is able to rescue and marry her. |
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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 Best Seller |
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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