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| Dracula - A Pain in the Neck by Daniel Krueger & Elwood Johnson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 23. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for 18 original songs plus incidental music is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Musical Gothic horror Melodrama! |
| Synopsis | A faithful translation of Bram Stoker's vampire classic to the musical stage, rendered in a melodramatic style! |
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** Conductor's score and band parts (Perc., Bass, Cello, Violin, Reeds 1 & 2, Trumpet, Trombone, Piano & Synth) for Dracula - A Pain in the Neck. Music by Elwood Jay Johnson, orchestrated by Wade Clark.
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| Dracula - The Final Countdown by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 35. Chorus. Very flexible cast, with a mixture of speaking and non-speaking parts, opportunities for doubling and opportunities for changing the gender of some of the characters. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comic and melodramatic retelling of Bram Stoker's story as a full-length play for kids. Sets can be relatively simple, but a fair number of props are required - coffins, that sort of thing. |
| Synopsis | Solicitor Jonathan Harker finds himself despatched to Transylvania to sort out a property deal for a mysterious Dr. Acula. On arrival, Harker realises that that he has been the victim of a misprint, but he is so charmed by his welcome that he fails to realise that he has become something of a prisoner. Harker's plight is made more acute by the attentions of the Brides of Dracula, a voracious trio, who appear to have less than honourable intentions. With the improbable assistance of Dracula's servant, Igoretta, Harker escapes and returns to England, where, shortly afterwards, his fiancé finds herself in the company of a mysterious foreign gentleman. Little does she realise what is at stake... |
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| Dracula In Pantoland by Andrew Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Roles include bats, dwarfs and an Igor. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] Timing assumes six two-minute songs. |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for six songs.
Two of them have original lyrics and arrangements for which backing tracks are available. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British pantomime (with Transylvanian touches). |
| Synopsis | Worried about the prospects of finding a suitable wife in Transylvania, Dracula decides to spread his wings and try his luck further afield. Thanks to a glossy brochure for 'Pantoland' theme park, he is convinced that Snow White is the girl for him. Refusing to believe she is not real, he ups sticks, together with his dysfunctional household and heads west. |
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** 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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| Echo and Narcissus by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Simple piano/vocal scores for four original songs are supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | A fifteen-minute musical based on Ancient Greek myth. |
| Synopsis | Hera, the queen of the gods, is furious when she discovers that her husband Zeus has been unfaithful, and she takes it out on the object of his affections, the articulate Echo. Echo falls for the handsome Narcissus, but she cannot make him understand because of Hera's curse, which confines Echo to repeating the words of others, and meanwhile Narcissus is in love with his own reflection. (Not a happy lot, the Ancient Greeks!) |
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| The Elves and the Shoemaker by JPS Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. The characters include a pantomime cow, otherwise the usual panto juxtapositions apply. |
| Run Time | Around 140 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggestions for 10 songs are included in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British pantomime. |
| Synopsis | The evil empire-building Freeman Hardly-Lykely is taking over Tommy Cobbler's shoe-making business. Only a last minute deal can save the shop and the Cobblers home, and maybe win Joe Cobbler the hand of lovely Clementine into the bargain. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| The Emperor's New Clothes [Version 2] by PL McQueen |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. The usual panto juxtapositions apply. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Producer's copy of the script includes a list of 9 suggested songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British panto. |
| Synopsis | Tired of being Emperor, his Majesty is off to become the next World's Top Model, but he needs a stunning outfit. The winning designer gets the kingdom and the hand of Daisy, the Emperor's daughter. Sir Spicious and Lady Vil have a wicked plan, but Taylor Tayler the Tailor and his friends will stop them. |
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| The Emperor's New Clothes [Version 3] by Jilly McNeil |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Variable chorus size at Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 88 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions for 14 songs are 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 various settings. |
| Synopsis | The fable is turned into a pantomime with the usual characters - this time including a recalcitrant Fairy and two comedy duos, as good defeats evil. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| The Emperor's New Clothes by Philippa Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 39. Chorus. Designed for a mixed cast of adults and children. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 19 songs, with new lyrics for several of them. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Traditional pantomime. Simple sets, with scene changes created by the cast (largely using a set of posts!) |
| Synopsis | Vain Emperor Montague Preen is obsessed with clothes, and he's set up a competition to furnish his next set. Conman Fabulo Fetuccini sets out to humiliate the Emperor and to relieve him of his fortune. To the rescue comes Dame Nellie Nimby, her daughter Amelia and Clover, the pantomime cow. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| The Emperor's New Nose by George Douglas Lee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 58 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Family show in one act, very loosely based on the work of Hans Christian Andersen. |
| Synopsis | A lively adaptation of 'The Emperor's New Clothes' introducing many new characters who, through a series of mishaps, ensure that the rightful Emperor is restored to his throne and is able to marry his one true love. |
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| Emporium 5 by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. There is a non-speaking 'crowd' of indeterminate number who enter and exit near the end of the piece. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play. Single (store) set. Part of a series set in the same bizarre venue (but functions as a stand-alone play.) |
| Synopsis | The worms in the shop finally turn, with Cynthia thrown out and Michelle getting hitched to her sweetheart, Rex. Madam Dressoir, the dreaded emporium manager, finally gets what's coming to her... |
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