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| A Long Time Ago... by Paul Barron & Sarah Dyson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The text contains spots for songs. The Producer's Copy of the script includes a list of song suggestions. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Science fiction, panto-style, with lots of nods to a well-known film franchise. |
| Synopsis | Anyone to whom the title seems familiar will recognise what is being parodied here.
The Evil Mange is trying to take over the galaxy but the planet Diptheria is yet to fall. If he can get the mystic Golden Thermos of Queeg, he'll have the power he needs. He recruits young Flash Artois to get it, but things don't work out as he hopes... |
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| The Lost World by Hilary Mackelden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 150 minutes. [Estimated!] Estimated timing includes 16 songs. |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 16 songs (with some new lyrics). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime with memorable characters, strong humour and plenty of action (including dancing dinosaurs). |
| Synopsis | In this pantomime take on Arthur Conan Doyle's ripping yarn, Professor Challenger, Lord Roxton, and their ragtag gang seek the lost word of Ugenya to discover dinosaurs. To complicate matters, Sid, great-great-grandson of a Spanish conquistador, is on their trail, hoping to get his hands on the gold his ancestor stole from the Aztecs. |
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| The Magic Tinderbox by Peter Bond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Numbers made flexible by a chorus of courtiers and a cave of dancers (who may or may not be bats). Gender flexible in the usual pantomime fashion. Oh yes, and there's a talking dog (with eyes as big as saucers). |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The script has positions for 18 songs. The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions (including some lyrics adapted for the story). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime (a variety show with a story!) very loosely based on The Tinderbox by Hans Christian Andersen. Lots of verbal humour (as you would expcet with a company of guards called Hoo, Mee, Yoo and Him). |
| Synopsis | A witch tricks a young man into fetching a tinderbox. He discovers it can summon a magic dog who can grant wishes. This sort of thing is bound to lead to trouble... (And, unexpectedly, pizza.) |
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| The Man in the Moon by Steve Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. (Lots of small speaking roles included in the totals.) Dame assumed to be played by Male, Principal Boy by Female. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions included in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | English Pantomime. Lots of knock-about clowning, flashes, bangs and spectacle, plus dreadful puns! |
| Synopsis | The queen is in thrall to the evil Al Chemist. The only way to thwart his ambitions is a journey to the moon in search of the magical moon dust which turns metal into gold. |
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| May The Farce Be With You by Andrew Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. The comedy cow is assumed to be two actors. |
| Run Time | Around 99 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Three songs are suggested - with altered words, described in the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length pantomime, with a small sprinkle of songs and straightforward sets. |
| Synopsis | Space superhero Luke Warmwater must thwart the plans of the evil Garth Invader thereby saving the galaxy from destruction. With his two female robots, STROP and PMT, he is forced to seek refuge from the evil Garth Invader in Jack's beanstalk - which is so large it is visible from outer space. Unfortunately the beanstalk is also inhabited by a bloodthirsty giant. |
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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 [Short Version] by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. Lots of flexibility in the numbers and the gender distribution! |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | No music specified in the script. Songs could be added at the discretion of the producer. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Short English pantomime for kids - strong characters, comedy, simple sets and props. |
| Synopsis | Poor Mrs Elsie Goose is an all-round good sort, kind and generous to all even though she is as poor as a church mouse. Unfortunately pure goodness of spirit cannot pay Squire Tightfist's rent and so eviction stares her in the face. Help is at hand in the form of the Good Fairy who recognises Mrs Goose's selfless qualities and rewards her with the gift of Priscilla, a goose who lays golden eggs. To all intents and purposes Mrs Goose is now happy. Not so, says the Demon King, long-time adversary of the Good Fairy. He intends to show that nobody is ever really content with their lot. They always want more. Will he be proved right? |
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