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| Jo White and the Seven by Anne Bourke |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 27. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 62 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | 7 songs, which can be performed at specified points in the play, are suggested in the producer's script, 5 of which have amended lyrics. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act panto with minimal set requirements, suitable for young performers. |
| Synopsis | In this present-day update of Snow White in panto style, young and beautiful Jo White escapes the threat of her wicked stepmother to find sanctuary with boy band The Seven. Helping them to victory, she also finds true love and a happy ending. |
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Mother Goose [Version 3] by Julie Petrucci and Chris Shinn
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 99 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 12 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime based on the traditional tale. |
| Synopsis | Fairy Starlight is just out of fairy college and wants to reward goodness. Mother Goose is a prime candidate, so she sends her a goose that lays golden eggs. But the Demon King bets that everyone has their price and sets out, along with nasty Squire Squint, to obtain the goose. |
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| Nativity - The Christmas Story by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. The numbers of shepherds and Roman soldiers are flexible. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for a class-sized cast, with a good range of speaking parts. No set requirements.
A deliberately comic piece but keeping the traditional story in view. |
| Synopsis | The traditional nativity story takes an inventive comic turn, with lazy shepherds, an unlikely group of visitors with Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh, and a bit of confusion over what to call the baby... but all the elements of the traditional story come together in the end. After all, this is how it really happened... well, more or less. |
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| Nativity News by Sarah Cowan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 40. No chorus. Doubling possibilities make cast numbers very adaptable - at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] This is dependent on the optional use of music suggestions. |
| Music | Eight music - song -suggestions provided to use for scene changes and for sound effects. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act play, with musical interludes, for children to perform. |
| Synopsis | The Nativity story re-told in an upbeat new way, using reporters and a 'newsdesk'. See the Shepherds interviewed in the fields! See the animal experts give their opinions on the donkey! All the events revealed in a fun way. |
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| Panto in the Stone Age by David K Bainbridge & Michael Lucas |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Nineteen songs are suggested in 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 various settings. |
| Synopsis | It is the year 10,000 BC and the Mayoress of Sandstone Hills is celebrating her birthday. Granny Granite is baking the perfect birthday cake, but the evil Chief of Police and his two Constables have a scheme to ruin the day. When the Mayoress falls dangerously ill, Granny Granite, her son Flint and their pet dinosaur Rex must find an antidote. |
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| Peter Pan - Youth Version by Rachael Ashworth |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 27. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 81 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 18 songs, including altered lyrics for one. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | An adaptation of J M Barrie's Peter Pan written to be performed by a mixed age group of young people to a family audience. |
| Synopsis | Wendy, Michael and John Darling accompany Peter Pan to Neverland, 'flying' through a scene using simple ultraviolet light effects. The lost boys greet them, along with Tiger Lily and (in a twist to the original) her tribe of bickering sisters and cute little brother. A gang of pirates provide comedy and lots of topical/child friendly banter. With audience participation, this is a show which has received rave reviews and standing ovations from the audiences it has been performed to.
Note that as with all adaptations of Peter Pan, we pay half the author's royalties to Great Ormond Street Hospital. |
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| Rhyming Ali Baba by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One set of song lyrics included, to the tune of 'Wild Rover'. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A simple version of 'Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves' told in rhyme, minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Like all pantomime heroes, Ali Baba is broke. On his way to look for work, he witnesses a band of thieves hiding treasure in a secret cave. He overhears their password and helps himself to their treasure. Unfortunately, the thieves find out and track him down by hiding in storage jars. |
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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 Wind in the Willows by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. Most of the characters are nominally male, but since they are clothed animals, who is to tell? |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Rhyming plays for a medium to large group of kids. Nominally six locations but no real set requirements. |
| Synopsis | An accident on a caravanning expedition leaves the flighty Mr. Toad with an obsession with motor cars and inflated opinions of his own driving. Despite the attentions of his friends, Toad ends in jail and the stoats and weasels of the Wild Wood take over his house. After Toad escapes, Badger, Mole and the Water Rat set about recapturing Toad Hall.
Kenneth Grahame's children's classic retold as a verse play. |
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Santa School by Louise Wade
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Characters include adults, elves and children. Who actually plays the roles is up to you! |
| Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script contains suggestions for 8 songs (for which lyrics are embedded in the script). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Fun family entertainment for the Christmas period, which puts Santa into an original situation that avoids the clichés while fitting in lots of songs. |
| Synopsis | Santa's test of a new sleigh has resulted in a crash, and while he waits for the recovery team of elves to arrive, he ambles off to investigate a Santa School. Can the real Santa pass muster for a corporation Santa at Toyland? |
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Sleeping Beauty [Version 9] by tlc Creative
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 86 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Recrafted lyrics for seven well-known songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Two-act pantomime based on the traditional story, full of physical and verbal humour. |
| Synopsis | A magical tale of Fairies, true love, curses and spinning wheels! The Princess Rose is about to celebrate her eighteenth birthday and the end of a long-standing curse put on her by the evil fairy Malicia. The future looks bright but the wicked fairy is not to be thwarted! Can Rose’s friends Nurse Nelly Nutmeg and court jester Jingling Jerry save her? Will she find true love with the dashing Prince Rhod? Can the good but somewhat scatter-brained fairy Forget-Me-Not remember how to aid the goodies? A traditional family pantomime packed with jokes, silliness and oodles of audience participation! |
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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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