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Goldilockpick and Little Red Riding Hoodlum in Wonderland? by Todd Barty
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. Numbers of Narrators and character doubling possible, at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 47 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act original story, woven into a rhyming comedy for all ages. (A family show with many characteristics of British panto, so could fit in a similar slot in the theatrical season.) |
| Synopsis | Narrators set the scene and assorted characters find their ways through a strange Wonderland. A source of comedy throughout this play is Goldilockpick, Little Red Riding Hoodlum and Alice getting into slightly embarrassing, and somewhat undignified predicaments with underwear, in a pantomime manner! |
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Hook and Peter Pan - How it all began by Giles Scott, Helen Dooley and Bob Walsh
Best Seller Cape Times Awards for Amateur Theatre, "Best Musical" 2003 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 35. Chorus. This is not a panto, but it would be possible for Peter Pan and some or all of the lost boys to be played by girls. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for Overture and 15 songs by Helen Dooley and Bob Walsh are supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Full-length musical which could be played by a youth company, by adults or by a mixture.
The production notes include extensive explanations of how to fly! |
| Synopsis | Everyone knows the story of Peter Pan. But how did the Boy Who Never Grew Up learn to fly? How did Hook lose his hand? How did the croc swallow the clock? This enchanting musical provides the answers! |
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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
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| Inspector Snow and the Sleeping Santa by Skip Chalker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Without any doubling, the script has 8 speaking roles, 8 non-speaking roles, and 2 optional clucking roles. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act Christmas story for children with various simple settings. US English. |
| Synopsis | Inspector Snow and Sergeant Merryman are called to the McGrew house one Christmas Eve, where Santa has been found fast asleep. As well as getting him on his way, they must find out who drugged him, and why they want to delay Christmas. The investigation takes them to interviews with the Easter Bunny, April Fool, and the Tooth Fairy, and ultimately back to the McGrew house. |
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| The King Arthur Show by David Edkins |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 140 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | 7 songs are suggested in the Producer's copy of the script. There is also the option of including 5 dance numbers. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full-length pantomime with a variety of settings. |
| Synopsis | The country is at peace, so King Arthur has returned the sword to the stone. But Mordred is making another attempt to take the kingdom, and has stolen Merlin’s magic and memory. It’s up to disgraced ex-knight Gawain to save the day! |
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Last Train to Sleepy Hollow by David Pemberton
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. Variable Chorus size at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 64 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Music and song suggestions for eight pieces are provided in the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A comedy spoof play, with music, in various settings. |
| Synopsis | When Arthur is summoned by his Godmother to exorcise her house of spooks, he discovers a dastardly plot to frighten her off her valuable real estate. In the ultimate battle of innocence against the powers of darkness, Arthur destroys the black heart of the Bigwitch, finds true love, restores Spooky Hollow to his Godmother and catches the last train home! |
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| The Magic Carpet by Andrew Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Family entertainment, designed to fill a similar slot to a British panto (but not sharing all the features of pantomime - more story and less 'variety show'). |
| Synopsis | Ahmed, the Great Mufti of Itsnothatabad, is an old style Middle Eastern potentate whose main aim in life is to out-do his cousin Faisal, particularly when it comes to their wealth and wives. With a visit from Faisal imminent, Ahmed is determined to trump his cousin once and for all with a special new addition to his harem. Tired of brown-eyed beauties with dark hair he sends his hapless servant Saleem on a quest for a blue-eyed blonde. A magic carpet comes to Saleem's rescue and transports him to modern day London but the bombshell he returns with has no intention of fitting into Ahmed's plans. His life is turned upside down in this comedy of sexes and cultures with consequences he could never have imagined. |
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| Maid in China by Philippa Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Characters include the Emperor's pet dragon and the occasional panda. The chorus is optional. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for the proglogue song is provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. Other songs may be added at the discretion of the production team. |
| Style | Full-length comedy play for children (or a mixed company of adults and kids) based on the Willow Pattern story. |
| Synopsis | Henry Hopper is not the least bit interested in China plates and their history. But when a cursed plate in a museum transports him to ancient China, he soon finds himself caught up in the mystery of two missing bluebirds, a pair of secret lovers, and the role they play in the Willow Pattern... |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| Nursery Crimes - The Catnap Kidnap Caper by tlc Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Whilst Puss-in-Boots is written male, he is, when all's said and done, a cat. Whilst this isn't a panto, Prince charming could be played by a girl as a pantomime Principal Boy. There's also a wolf... and a troll. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A daft detective story set in the worlds of Fairytale and Nursery Rhymes. A full length play addition to the popular Nursery Crimes series. Charles Perrault meets Raymond Chandler. |
| Synopsis | When a trio of bears go missing in Fairytale land, Private Investigator, Puss in Boots is hired to track them down. But as other groups of three animal start to disappear, it seems that the case could be just the start of something much more sinister! Puss, and his assistant Mary Quite Contrary, try to unpick the mystery, meeting Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks, Woodsmen, Trolls, Wolves, Soldiers and even Royalty along the way... |
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| Oedipus - Swollen Foot by Graham Milton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play for schools - ideal as a classroom or assembly piece. |
| Synopsis | A light-hearted, accessible take on the Greek myth. Oedipus gradually discovers he has killed his father and married his mother. He learns how one cannot avoid fate, however hard one tries, and that great fortune is often followed by great misfortune. |
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| Oh No It Isn't! by Sharon Hulm, Geoff Rogers & Vera Rogers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 53. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 11 songs with one set of original lyrics to a well-known melody. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Revue (sketch show) with a pantomime theme! (One sketch contains mild swearing.) |
| Synopsis | Seventeen comedy sketches, including
- Ministry Of Pantomimes
- The Wrong Props
- Before The Ball
- Summing Up For The Plaintiff
- Let Sleeping Princesses Lie
- Am I A Prince?
- The Naked Cow (parts 1 and 2)
-Good Morning Pantoland
- My Stepmother Tried To Kill Me
- After The Ball
- Dame Academy |
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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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