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Merlin - The Pantomime by Bob Heather and Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Chorus size may be variable at Producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 116 minutes. [Estimated!] Dependent on the songs used. |
Music | There are 14 song suggestions included with the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full length family pantomime, with a variety of settings. |
Synopsis | Madcap wizard Merlin and his apprentice Harry are the magicians in this magical Arthurian-style romp. Can Merlin and Harry thwart evil Ravenclaw's plans to kidnap King Arthur's daughter, Princess Avaline? Will Dame Henrietta Cupcake get a knight to remember? There's plenty of fun and comedy in this new traditional family pantomime. |
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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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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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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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Mixed-Up Mother Goose by Karen Doling |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Chorus. The chorus appears mainly for the opening and closing songs. (The director could choose to make greater use of the chorus with additional songs and dances or to dispense with it altogether.) Otherwise, the usual pantomime juxtapositions, plus a cat! |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for five songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Full-length British pantomime for a small(ish) cast. A gentle, modern interpretation of a traditional story. |
Synopsis | The tale of Mother Goose, swindled out of her golden egg-laying goose by her own desire for youth, but aided this time by Dick Whittington, on his way to London. |
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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 2] by TLC Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Nine principals, plus cameos from amongst the chorus roles. |
Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script contains lyrics for 9 songs which fit to well-know tunes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | British pantomime |
Synopsis | A challenge between the Demon King Mephisto and Fairy Goosedown embroils Dame Mother Goose and her family in a tale of golden eggs and a search for true beauty! A host of larger than life characters, plenty for the chorus and our usual mix of silliness, songs and slapstick! |
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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 ** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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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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Murdering the Mikado by Nigel Holloway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script, based on songs from The Mikado. The music covers five songs (for a variety of voices with keyboard accompaniment) plus an instrumental (scored for two keyboards). |
Style | Full-length play (set amongst the preparations and production of a pantomime) with songs adapted from the Mikado. |
Synopsis | An unscrupulous journalist gets his theatrical comeuppance in a desperately improvised performance of an Aladdin pantomime - based on Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado! Another hilarious romp with the Off-The-Wall Theatre Company (The fictional but all-too-familiar heroes of several Nigel Holloway plays). |
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The Necklace by Tony Best Performance by Cheshire Academy of Performing Arts won best Youth Production and the Syd Mence cup for a piece of theatre magic at the Wilmslow Guild One Act play Festival, 2012 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 29. Chorus. There are two main roles, and a 'chorus of voices' playing all the other roles, thus the numbers are very flexible. The chorus members play specific roles but also act as a 'Greek Chorus' to comment on the story. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play based on a short story (a moral fable) by Guy de Maupassant. Written for a youth theatre production but could be performed by adults. |
Synopsis | Mathilde is a vain, proud woman, who regrets that the she has been born into the humbler classes. She longs to be an aristocrat. Given her chance to shine, she borrows a stunning necklace, but that is the start of her woes. |
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A New You by Wesley A. Knoch |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano and Vocal sheet music for nine original songs is provided with the Producer's Copy of the script |
Style | One act musical comedy play - set in the studio of a TV make-over show complete with cheesy presenters and sponsorship jingles. |
Synopsis | A Nasally over-blessed heroine (Miss Nodda Tragtiff) takes part in a reality Makeover show, only to find that the New You promised has caused her to lose her old friends and only gained her fleeting popularity with new people. She comes to understand that real beauty comes from within, and true friends aren't swayed by appearance. |
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