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| Any Colour But Red by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Fourteen on-stage characters (including a detective written male, but playable by either gender) and an offstage female voice. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] The original production took 50 minutes. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy whodunnit with adult themes. Two almost identical kitchen sets! |
| Synopsis | When Jim and Jani hold an Open Morning to sell their house, a mix-up in arrangements sends them some extremely unusual prospective buyers, some with bizarre expectations. Twenty-four hours later, the house has become a crime scene and the police need the help of the neighbours, Fred and Molly. |
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| Arawen's Dragon by Martin Hailey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song or music suggestions 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 an original storyline. |
| Synopsis | Everyone thinks that the unseasonably cold weather is odd, but they don’t suspect it's a wicked spell until Arawen, the Baron's daughter, is given a magical dragon as a birthday present. Cuthbert breaks the spell and restores the sunshine, but becomes the witch's new target... |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Around the World in Eighty Days by Richard Cowling |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 54. Chorus. In order to be faithful to Jules Verne, most of the characters are written male. How you cast them is up to you! (For example, whilst it was not so in Fogg's day, the Reform Club is now open to women!) |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal score for seventeen songs and nineteen pieces of incidental music is provided with the producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | Full-length school musical based on Jules Verne's novel. By the nature of the story, there are a lot of locations, but these can be presented in as simple or complex a way as you please. |
| Synopsis | Phileas Fogg accepts a wager to travel around the World in Eighty days. Armed with only Passepartout (his trusty French manservant) and pursued by a detective, he sets out, venturing via Egypt, India (where he acquires a princess!), Japan and the USA. |
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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
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
** Conductor's score and band parts (Clarinet/Alto Sax/Tenor Sax, Trumpet, Trombone, Bass, and Keyboard) for 'Around the World in Eighty Days' by Richard Cowling
** Midi Files for the 36 songs and instrumentals from Around the World in Eighty Days by Richard Cowling. The files contain the band arrangements plus vocal lines.
** Backing Tracks for the 36 songs and musical pieces from Around the World in Eighty Days by Richard Cowling. (The tracks are the orchestrated instrumentals, with additional instruments playing the vocal lines.)
** Vocal recordings of all the songs from Around the World in Eighty Days by Richard Cowling. (Vocals by Richard Cowling and Leanne Cooper.)
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| Art for Art's Sake by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] A slick production could be completed in under 2 hours. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length colourful farce, centering on a wedding and a work of art! |
| Synopsis | As art dealer David Gibson prepares for the wedding of his daughter Samantha, he finds himself in a position to make a financial killing by arranging the sale of a valuable French Impressionist painting. Unfortunately the prospective buyer from Los Angeles, Mrs Delores Van Zuyl, insists on the work being authenticated by an expert. When the expert doesn't turn up David turns to his less than reliable step-brother to fill the gap. What David doesn't know is that Mrs Van Zuyl has her own agenda and it has little to do with French Impressionism. |
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| As You Like It (60-minute abridgement) by Shakespeare abridged by Philip Schwadron |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. There are optional roles for non-speaking lords and attendants. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'As You Like It', with the original text pruned to 60 minutes.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
Shakespeare's pastoral comedy pared down to around 60 minutes. A play, set in the Forest of Arden, for fans of romance, jesters, dukes, wrestlers, foresters, shepherds, exiles and cross-dressers.
There. Who does that leave out? |
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| As You Like It [75-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] Timing allows for the three Shakespearian songs embedded in the script. |
| Music | Three of Shakespeare's songs (without music) are included in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A 75-minute abridgement of Shakespeare's pastoral comedy.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but, because all the words are Shakespeare's and therefore out of copyright, performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | Boy meets girl. Boy and girl fall in love. Girl exiled into forest by powerful uncle and disguises self as boy. Boy kicked out of home by grumpy brother. Boy meets girl again. Girl, as boy, tricks boy into seducing her. Another girl meets girl, and thinking she's a boy, falls in love. Subplot about a jester. Classic love story all round. |
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| The Axe Of Albion by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Various parts can be doubled and played by m or f. |
| Run Time | Around 66 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy suitable for school age or youth performers, minimal set required. |
| Synopsis | An original storyline in which King Arthur is suffering some unfortunate disappearances - his favourite crown, the round table... Then comes news that the fabled Axe of Albion has been stolen from the cave wherein it rests, and doom must befall the whole kingdom. The quest is on! |
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| Ba Ba Land by David and Fiona Barker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. Nine principal roles, four cameos and chorus (of villagers sheep and mice). |
| Run Time | Around 96 minutes. [Estimated!] The timing assumes 18 songs, so there is scope for variation! |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script comes with suggestions for 18 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length (British) pantomime with an original story (with some familiar characters). |
| Synopsis | There's a competition afoot in Ba-Ba Land to find a new nursery rhyme to bring things up to date. Bo Peep's certain to win, but she'd love Boy Blue to help her out. The Wolf, on the other hand, wants to put an end to all this rhyming... |
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Babes in the Wood by tlc Creative
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Some original lyrics included in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime. Strong characters, slapstick, visual jokes, puns and mayhem |
| Synopsis | All is not well in Nottingham! The wicked Sheriff is growing rich on the many taxes he is forcing the poor townsfolk to pay and he is just about to become even richer. Pip and Penny, recently orphaned and heirs to vast fortunes have been entrusted into his care and he is hatching a horrible plan to make sure that he will inherit the cash and marry Maid Marion into the bargain. All that stands in his way is the very brave and dashing Robin Hood and his Merry Men, the fearsome Nanny Coddle, brainless Dave Knave (the wannabe outlaw) and a rather overworked Fairy. Will they succeed in thwarting the evil plot and beat the Sheriff and his villainous henchmen? |
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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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| Babes in the Wood [Version 2] by Bob Heather & Roger Lamb |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. Dame assumed to be played by Male, Principal Boy by Female. |
| 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 | British Pantomime with traditional pantomime characters - dame, village idiot, goodies and baddies, slapstick and comedy.
Published in 2005, this revised version published 2011. |
| Synopsis | A battle between the Sheriff of Nottingham and Robin Hood over the custody of the Sheriff's wards, aided or confused by the village idiot, Tom Piper, his mother, Robin's Merry Men and the Sheriff's incompetent deputies. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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