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Rhyming Christmas Carol by Richard Coleman
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children, assumed to be played by children. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A simple, humorous rendition of Dickens' A Christmas Carol in rhyme, minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | On Christmas eve, miserly Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his old business partner and three other ghosts. Being shown the error of his ways, he then sets out to make Christmas happy for others. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Rhyming Goldilocks by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Whilst critters abound, Goldilocks gets the lion's share of the dialogue (as well as the bears' share of the porridge). |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming drama for kids. Single set, complete with collapsing chair. |
| Synopsis | The time-honoured tale of burgling blonde meets ursine breakfast! |
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Rhyming Jack and the Beanstalk by Richard Coleman
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Opportunity for non-speaking chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Jack and the Beanstalk told in rhyme by a narrator and small cast. Minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Through a combination of poverty and gormlessness, Jack sells the family cow for a handful of magic beans, from which grows a beanstalk reaching to the clouds. Up climbs Jack, with girlfriend Nancy, and at the top they find a giant, a goose, a golden egg and a lot of trouble! |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Rhyming Magic Goose by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The score for the fairground music is provided with the Producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | Rhyming fairytale (adapted from a Grimm Brothers story) for performance by kids. Simple set and props. |
| Synopsis | The King promises half his riches to anyone who can cause his cursed daughter to laugh. Can humble Peter and his Magic Goose release the Princess from her sadness? |
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| Rhyming Mother Goose by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Mother Goose (the British pantomime version, more-or-less) told in rhyme by a narrator and small cast. Minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | As a favour from a fairy, Mother Goose acquires a bird that lays golden eggs. Unfortunately, it's a second hand goose, and its previous owner wants it back... |
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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 Nativity by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. The character numbers are flexible - many have only a single line, so doubling is easy. Equally, the narration could be split and additional non-speaking parts can be added. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Simple nativity play told in rhyme. No specific requirements for set or props. |
| Synopsis | See the Gospels according to St. Luke and St. Matthew (chapter 2 in each case). Taxation, Bethlehem overcrowded, no room at the inn, baby laid in a manger, shepherds in the fields, wise men bringing gifts. All of that - and a stable of talking animals. |
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| Rhyming Pied Piper by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. (Chorus plays rats and children) |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | The story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin told as a simple verse play. Minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Rats are taking over the rich town of Hamelin, so when an eccentrically dressed stranger offers to drive them away, the Mayor offers to heap him with gold. However, when the rats have disappeared, so has the Mayor's promise, till the stranger reminds the town of his musical prowess. |
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| Rhyming Red Riding Hood by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. (Could involve more people by using multiple narrators or having the actors mime the actions and someone else speak their words.) |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Not so much a pantomime as a humorous horror story for children! Told in rhyming couplets, including a brief nod to Monty Python. |
| Synopsis | Red Riding Hood is getting in her mothers way, and is sent off to visit her grandma. Unfortunately, a wolf gets to grandma's house first - unfortunately for the wolf, as he more than meets his match. |
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Rhyming Snow White by Richard Coleman
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Numbers are very flexible. There are nominally seven gnomes (not dwarfs in this version!), but this number could be shrunk or expanded. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A simple, humorous rendition of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in verse. Minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | On the run from the wicked queen, Snow White becomes housekeeper to a bunch of diminutive miners. The queen finds her and poisons her, but Snow White is saved by a handsome prince. The sort of thing that could happen to anyone. |
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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 Three Little Pigs by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. Characters are, as you might expect, all wolves and pigs! |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Simple verse play. No set requirements, a few simple props. |
| Synopsis | It's the age-old battle of wolf against pig, only nowadays all that huffing and puffing has stopped and the wolves have become confidence tricksters. Meanwhile, some of the pigs have become fat and lazy - easy pickings - but finally the wolves are confronted with a choice of fresh bacon or vegetarianism... |
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