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| The Jungle Book by Tina & Robert Burbidge |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. Whilst many of the characters have a specific gender, the animal characteristics matter more for casting purposes! |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 8 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | An authentic adaptation of Kipling's well-loved stories, with lots of opportunity for the audience to become involved with the (nearly all) animal cast. |
| Synopsis | The wolf pack rescues Mowgli, the man cub, from the evil Shere Khan's clutches and defend him from the wicked tiger's attempts to recapture their charge. Shere Khan's henchmen, bumbling monkey pair Mojo and Jojo are thwarted in their comical antics by black panther Bagheera and Baloo the bear. |
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| Kalifa's Amazing Adventures by Nikki Harmon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. The lead character is a young elephant and various others are animals. These are supposed to be indicated by costumes props or masks, rather than being entirely realistic! (There's a photographic example on the script page.) |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full length play - a fable along the lines of the Just So stories or Brer Rabbit. Aimed at a young audience, but to be played by adults or teenagers. |
| Synopsis | The growing pains of an inquisitive young elephant, as she learns about the dangers of her environment and the value of friendship. |
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| King Arthur by Jilly McNeil |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for twelve songs. (Others could be substituted at the discretion of the production team.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Off-beat British Panto (with a bit of post-modernism thrown in!). |
| Synopsis | Merlin and Mrs Merlin are told by the Lady of the Lake that a boy will draw the sword from the stone and become King, but Morgana is determined to prevent it. Can young Arthur win both the sword and the heart of Guinevere? |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| King Arthur - The Panto! by Archie Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. Characters include a dragon. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 8 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Arthurian romance cast as British pantomime with lots of audience participation, slapstick, corny jokes, heroes and villains. |
| Synopsis | The show gets off to a storming start as the evil Morgana and her dragon battle with the elderly and forgetful Merlin. A romp through the story of Arthur and the sword in the stone, a heroic Sir Laughalot and a soppy love story thrown in for good measure. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| The King Arthur Show [90 Minute Version] by David Edkins |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. There's a lot of flexibility in who plays what, especially when it comes to Henry the bipedal horse and the The Questing Beast (a terrible monster, snake head and leopard body). Production notes include how to swap two female characters to male, |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] Run time assumes the use of 8 songs. |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 8 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full-length pantomime for a small cast. (A longer version for a larger cast is also available.) |
| Synopsis | All is peaceful in the Kingdom of Camelot. No naughty knights have tried to take over for ages. If only King Arthur would stop trying to get a sneaky look at his present and a sneaky taste of his cake before his birthday. However, the evil Morgana is being a bit mean again, and only a man whose name definitely isn't Wayne can stop her. But beware the Questing Beast! |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| The King Arthur Show by David Edkins |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 140 minutes. [Estimated!] (some songs and dances might be omitted if run time is an issue). |
| Music | 7 songs are suggested in the Producer's copy of the script. There is also the option of including 5 dance numbers. (Some might be omitted to constrain the run-time.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full-length pantomime with a variety of settings. (A shorter version for a small cast is also available.) |
| Synopsis | The country is at peace, so King Arthur has returned the sword to the stone. But Mordred is making another attempt to take the kingdom, and has stolen Merlin’s magic and memory. It’s up to disgraced ex-knight Gawain to save the day! |
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| The King's New Clothes by Peter Bond & Bob Heather |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Characters include a pantomime dame (played by a male) and a principal boy (played by a female). |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A few song suggestions made in the Producer's Copy of the script, other songs at the discretion of the production team. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | The Hans Christian Andersen story (of The Emperor's New Clothes) told for the stage as a traditional English Pantomime - lots of silly jokes and clowning.
Originally published in 2008, revised in 2012. |
| Synopsis | The King needs a new suit for his forthcoming marriage, and the royal tailors just can't cut it. The situation seems tailor-maid for the evil Barron Grumbleguts, who wishes to usurp the throne. He proposes a competition, and then engineers the humiliation of the king by means of an invisible suit. All comes right in the end, with the help of a deputy superintendent of vegetables, and Hercules, the performing flea! |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Kleptomania by Mark Ash |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 31. No chorus. Characters are a mix of adults and children, but assumed to be performed by a cast of children. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Large-cast play set in a school. Comedy, verging on the melodramatic. |
| Synopsis | The school is under threat of closure, the bursar is gambling with the school funds, the school secretary has left, an inspection is due any minute and things keep going missing (including several pupils). What this school needs is heroism and leadership. What it has got is an incompetent head, staff members bent on partying, a group of very dangerous science students and, somewhere, a kleptomaniac. A tale of muddle, romance and the Mongolian police. |
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| Knight Fever by tlc Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggestions for 8 songs (mainly rock/pop) are included in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British Pantomime, laden with legend, packed with puns and bulging with buffoonery. |
| Synopsis | The fair kingdom of Camelot is under threat from the evil Black Knight, and King Arthur, his knights and the magician Merlin seem unable to avert disaster! Brave Justin, a humble stable boy with dreams of becoming a Knight of the Round Table is quick to step into the breach and accept the quest to rescue a princess and save the kingdom - with only the help of a court jester and a dotty dame. |
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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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| A Knight to Remember by Johnny Jarman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 135 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length farce on a single (hotel suite) set. |
| Synopsis | Sir Ronald is going to accept a Lifetime Acting Achievement award, if he can learn his speech in time. But sadly for him, his night is going to be full of interruptions from all kinds of people - and even his own murky past! |
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