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| The Magic Shoes by Jack Burgess |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 35. Chorus. Includes a dragon and an unspecified number of ghoulies. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] Timing includes an estimate for 13 songs and dances; the production may use fewer or shorter! |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 8 songs and 5 dances. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Original British pantomime. Great jokes and panto action, with opportunities for audience interaction. |
| Synopsis | King Bumbell the Good is persuaded by his brother Count Scrofula the Bad to go dragon-slaying. In his absence, Scrofula bans everything including dancing, and he attempts to marry-off Princess Inflagrante to his son Prince Eric. But never fear! Help is at hand in the form of Prince Lustin the Likely and a frog called Phineas. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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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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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Maid in China by Philippa Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Characters include the Emperor's pet dragon and the occasional panda. The chorus is optional. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for the proglogue song is provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. Other songs may be added at the discretion of the production team. |
| Style | Full-length comedy play for children (or a mixed company of adults and kids) based on the Willow Pattern story. |
| Synopsis | Henry Hopper is not the least bit interested in China plates and their history. But when a cursed plate in a museum transports him to ancient China, he soon finds himself caught up in the mystery of two missing bluebirds, a pair of secret lovers, and the role they play in the Willow Pattern... |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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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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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| A Man Walks Into a Bra by Jonathan Goodson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy-thriller with a single set (plus front-of-curtain prologue). |
| Synopsis | A pair of detectives investigate suspicious activity in Bar Harmony, uncovering fraud, theft, deceit, administering a noxious substance and very poor taste in trousers. |
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| Maria's Mask by Andrew Weaver |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 27. Minimum total without doubling = 47. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script has suggestions for nine songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Play (with suggested songs) for kids. A haunting, lyrical love story overlaid with knock-about comedy. |
| Synopsis | A century ago, the famous dancer Maria was given a golden mask as a love token by a visiting prince, but it vanished and he believed she stole it. Now her ghost haunts the theatre where she used to dance, and the mask has returned in time to save or wreck a new show... |
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| Mary Had a Little Lamb by Ian Cartwright |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Some of the roles are written male or female, but it's a panto, so cast whomsoever you like (I mean within the span of your company - so it's no good casting Sir Ian McKellen because the chances are he won't be available). |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 17 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full-length pantomime with an original story inspired by the nursery rhyme. |
| Synopsis | The evil Lady Wolfe intends to take control of Dame Dora Drover's farm. Dora lays her hopes in Professor Knutz's new shearing and knitting machine, but Knutz can't get it to work well enough to make the money they need. Fortunately a chance purchase by Dora’s daughter Mary at the livestock auction brings a talking lamb to the rescue. |
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| Matchmakers by Robert M. Barr |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. A range of ages and plenty of opportunity for characterisation. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full length play set in the Jewish community in 19th century Eastern Europe. Clever and funny, with a plot that twists and turns. Multiple locations, but easy to realise without elaborate scenery. |
| Synopsis | Reuven, the son of a Rabbi, is studying to be a Rabbi too. He needs a wife to support him, but also to prevent him being drafted into the Czar's army. Unfortunately he and his family have to move to another village where their matchmaker runs into another Matchmaker. |
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| Maverick Cop by Paul John Matthews |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 93 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length madcap comedy caper with various (simple) settings. |
| Synopsis | When the local police force is baffled by a series of seemingly unrelated murders they decide that the only answer is to recall the rule-breaking individualist detective Bob Marsland to take over. His Clouseau-like antics somehow achieve the breakthrough the police have been seeking. |
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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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** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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