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| Red Riding Hood [Version 2] by Bob Hammond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. The usual pantomime juxtapositions (so you can make your own mind up about the gender of the characters). Includes a chorus of chickens. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | All songs at the discretion of the producer. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Large-cast British Pantomime. |
| Synopsis | Farmer Hood's Chickens are being whittled down by the big bad wolf, Granny Hood needs her cottage decorated, and Red needs a new dress to go to the village dance. Tom the Woodcutter wants to take Red to the dance. All these things collide in the wood, ending with the wolf caught bang to rights, Granny's cottage done up nice and Red and Tom on their way to the dance. |
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| Red Riding Hood [Version 3] by Luke Reilly |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. Principal boy could also be female role. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Popular songs listed, for use at the Producer's discretion. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | This is a modern retelling of Red Riding Hood, with edgy and more adult humour than the original. |
| Synopsis | Grandma is trying to keep her rocking House Parties secret from Red and her brother Blue, so they don't stop bringing her free food. But trouble has arrived in the form of Mr Wolf and the wicked Razzi, his agent, who’s determined to get Wolf mega-star status by any means. |
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| Red Riding Hood [Version 4] by Stephen Mercer |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Variable chorus size at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 87 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Songs suggestions for 13 songs are provided with the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A pantomime in two acts, with various settings. |
| Synopsis | A complete re-working of the traditional fairytale retains a nod to the original, in a fast moving show - with lots of pantomime ingredients! |
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| Rhyming Aladdin by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. This is an English pantomime, so Widow Twankey could well be played as a pantomime dame and Aladdin as a principal boy (so male playing female and female playing male) |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act Rhyming English pantomime. Simple sets, mainly simple props (give or take a laundry basket on wheels). |
| Synopsis | Aladdin, a washerwoman's son falls for a beautiful princess. In his urgent need for wealth, he is tricked into accompanying the wicked Abanaza on an expedition to retrieve a magic lamp. Abanaza traps Aladdin in a cave, but with a lot of magical help Aladdin escapes and (after a few twists and turns) love triumphs. |
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| Rhyming Beauty and The Beast by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Characters include a talking horse. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A simple, humorous rendition of the tale of Beauty and the Beast in one-act and in rhyme. |
| Synopsis | A merchant goes to trade his wares and bring back gifts for his three daughters. Two of them, greedy and vain, desire jewellery, the other, fair and good-natured, wishes for a rose. But the merchant plucks a rose from the garden of the Beast, and he must pledge the Beast his daughter's hand in marriage to save his own life. |
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| Rhyming Pinocchio by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. The narrator is Gepetto's talking cat. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A simple, humorous rendition of the story of Pinocchio in rhyme, minimal set requirements. Not quite a full-blown pantomime, but in the same comedic area. |
| Synopsis | Geppetto makes Pinocchio, whom the Blue Fairy brings alive, however, as part of the spell, if Pinocchio tells lies, his nose will grow! Pinocchio is tricked into joining Stromboli's puppet show. Stromboli plans a show for the Duke which will make him rich, he tries to get Pinocchio to flatter the Duke's court, with disastrous results for the puppet's nose. Pinocchio is trapped, but who will rescue him? |
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Rhyming Robin Hood by Richard Coleman
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. Most of the roles are nominally male, but don't let that put you off casting female Merry Men, for example! |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | English pantomime (more or less) as a short verse play. |
| Synopsis | Robin Hood and his Merry Men hatch a plan to rob the evil Sheriff of Nottingham and give back to the poor. The Sheriff finds out about Robin's plan and invents a scheme of his own to catch the outlaws. A few rhymes, imprisonments and swordfights later, good triumphs once again. |
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| Robbins And Caruso by Ian McCutcheon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Optional chorus size at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Six song suggestions 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 island-based settings! |
| Synopsis | In this departure from the more traditional panto, successful scientist Robbins quits the rat race - to settle on a desert island, accompanied by his faithful friend, gorilla Caruso. A passing ship makes landfall and the evil Lord Ruffbottom and his scurvy crew disrupt their idyll. The action-packed script provides fun for all ages. |
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| Robin Hood by Bob Heather and Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. Since this is a pantomime, Robin Hood's Merry Men need not actually be men! This principle may well apply to other characters. Includes a pantomime horse. |
| Run Time | Around 150 minutes. [Estimated!] (Timing allows for 16 songs!) Plaza Theatre production, directed by Bob Heather, ran to 2 hrs. |
| Music | The script includes place-holders for 17 songs and dances. The Producer's Copy of the script includes specific suggestions for some of them. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime - a family show packed with heroes, villains, damsels in distress, and foolishness of many kinds! |
| Synopsis | When Robin Hood returns to Nottingham after a stint in the crusades, he meets the Sheriff's ward, Maid Marion and falls in love, only to find out that the Sheriff himself has designs on er. Marion isn't the only thing the Sheriff desires, the whole of Sherwood Forest is under threat of his evil plans when Robin's outlaws discover plans for the forest to be chopped down for the Sheriff's new money-grabbing venture. Robin and his band of Merry Men with the aid of Holly Jockey-Sticks, the woodland Fairy, Nellie Scarlet (Marion's nanny) and her son Wally set out to thwart the evil Sheriff once and for all to ensure good will always win over evil. |
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| Robin Hood - The Pantomime by Bob Hammond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 31. Chorus. Many characters are written male, but this is a pantomime, so the casting is very flexible! The minimum male set is the Sheriff, Lord Knowse, Tuck, Euphonia and Richard (doubling a Villager), with Robin Hood, Marion and Ruth the Sooth played by females. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | There are places for songs in the script, but no songs specified - therefore all music is at the discretion of the production team. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime with strong characters and drama peppered with jokes. |
| Synopsis | The eternal battle between Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham, played-out against the background of a missing king and an impending wedding. A tale of argumentative outlaws, talking trees and a pantomime dog! |
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