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Mary Had a Little Lamb by Ian Cartwright |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Some of the roles are written male or female, but it's a panto, so cast whomsoever you like (I mean within the span of your company - so it's no good casting Sir Ian McKellen because the chances are he won't be available). |
Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 17 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full-length pantomime with an original story inspired by the nursery rhyme. |
Synopsis | The evil Lady Wolfe intends to take control of Dame Dora Drover's farm. Dora lays her hopes in Professor Knutz's new shearing and knitting machine, but Knutz can't get it to work well enough to make the money they need. Fortunately a chance purchase by Dora’s daughter Mary at the livestock auction brings a talking lamb to the rescue. |
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McRumpelstiltskin by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for six simple songs (plus two reprises) is included with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | One-act musical play for kids. (A novel retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale.) |
Synopsis | Wicked Queen Mab has run out of money to fight her wars. Her soldiers have captured a leprechaun, but he refuses to use his magic to aid the queen. Along comes the Miller, who boasts that his daughter Nicole is so clever that she can weave straw into gold. Unfortunately this boast is overheard by the queen, who puts Nicole to work, threatening to execute her if she fails! Leprechaun to the rescue! |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream The Pantomime by Matthew Harper |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Variable chorus number at Producer's discretion |
Run Time | Around 155 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Songs and musical suggestions included with the Producer's copy. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full length pantomime, with the Shakespearean storyline |
Synopsis | This adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream includes all the usual pantomime characters and fun, making the original play easily accessible without losing the essence of the story. |
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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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Mixed-Up Cinderella by Karen Doling |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. The usual principal boy (to be played by a girl), two ugly sisters (played by men) and rather a lot of rats and a couple of bounty hunters with the strange names of Ant and Dec. |
Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Song suggestions (plus some original lyrics) provided in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Cinderella pantomime with a few new twists - such as the arrival of a pied piper. |
Synopsis | Cinderella is put upon by her ugly sisters and wicked stepmother, but that's not her only problem - there's a pied piper lurking, and he hasn't been paid... |
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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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Moses in the Bullrushes by Bill Siviter |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Flexible cast, with options for multiple narrators, maidens, Egyptians, Hebrews and members of the Egyptian army. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Rhyming play for kids. No set requirements and props are optional. |
Synopsis | A fun version of the Exodus story that includes all the relevant elements and allows a fair sized (and flexible) cast to present the story in a dramatized but simple fashion. |
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Mother Goose by Bob Heather & Roger Lamb ** WINNER ** Best Pantomime - Southern Echo Curtain Call Awards 2006 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. One of the characters is a goose! |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Lyrics for one song included in the script, all other songs at the discretion of the producer. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Traditional pantomime characters - dame, village idiot, goodies and baddies, magic, slapstick and comedy. Published in 2005, this revised version published 2011. |
Synopsis | Mother Goose and her family become very rich, thanks to Candy the magic goose, but Mother Goose is old and ugly, and would give anything to become young and beautiful again. Vanity, the bad fairy, makes a pact with her to turn her ugliness into beauty in exchange for the magic goose. Mother Goose's silly son Billy, with the help of his sister Jill, her fiancée Jack, and Virtue, the fairy Queen, set out to get Candy back and put things right. All ends happily ever after in the best pantomime tradition. |
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Mother Goose [Version 3] by Julie Petrucci and Chris Shinn Best Seller |
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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Mr Scrooge by Peter Bond Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script contains suggestions for 7 or 8 songs (including some original lyrics). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | One-act comedy with songs and elements of English pantomime, with plenty of opportunities for audience participation. All scenes are interiors, and it could be played with a single set with items of furniture brought on to indicate the different rooms. |
Synopsis | This cut-down version of the Dickens' Christmas classic has a Sherlock Holmes cameo for good measure. Audience interaction, a moral and starving orphans mean there's something for everyone here. |
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Musical Maurice and the History Hop by Cat Durning |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 34. Chorus. Thirteen principals (although the lead character could be played by three different actors) and scope for a large chorus (the original production employed three school classes!) |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script gives suggestions for three songs and various pieces of incidental music to accompany the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Time-travelling school play, Multiple locations but little needed in the way of stage furniture. (Locations indicated by music or acting!) |
Synopsis | A child and a grandfather get sucked into a whirlwind history tour by a time-traveller with a magic wand. |
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The Musical Scottish Play by Bill Siviter with Lea Anderson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] Up to 90 minutes with banquets, ballads and battles! |
Music | Sheet music for six original songs (Music by Lea Anderson, Lyrics by Bill Siviter) supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. |
Style | Irreverent play in verse and song, told by the protagonists and by narrators with the action mimed. A good introduction to Shakespeare's story! (The specified run-time is the minimum - banquets, battles and bopping will add to the run time!) |
Synopsis | The Musical Scottish Play - or 'Kids in Kilts' The complete story of Shakespeare's Macbeth (witches, murder, walking trees, revenge - that sort of thing) told as in verse and songs as a play for kids. [Note that there is also a version of this play without the songs, called The Scottish Play. It is identical except that the songs have been omitted.] |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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