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Dick Whittington [Version 11] by James Barry
Nominated for Best Script in the Great British Panto Awards 2020 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. It's a pantomime. Make your own mind up as to who plays what. Some doubling is essential - a running visual joke. |
| Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 15 songs & dances. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length panto for a small cast (or small group of principals and non-speaking chorus). |
| Synopsis | Dick Whittington falls for Alice Fitzwarren and becomes a proxy in Fairy Bow Bells' war with King Rat. Having met with a cat and some success working for Alderman Fitzwarren, Dick is taken on a sea voyage with Captain Horatio Barnacle (who bears a striking resemblance to Alderman Fitzwarren) and, after a shipwreck, meets the Sultan of Morocco (who bears a striking resemblance to Alderman Fitzwarren). |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| The Wicked Witches Of Oz by Peter Nuttall |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Aunt Em is written as a dame role (to be played by a man). Doubling of characters is an integral part of the script. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Small-cast pantomime based on the stories by L. Frank Baum. Not specifically musical, but a production could add songs. |
| Synopsis | A panto twist on the classic tale of Dorothy and the ruby slippers, with some familiar faces, some new characters and absolutely no mention of that tune.... |
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| A Christmas Carol [Version 2] by Adrian Barradell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 15. Minimum Female roles = 12. Minimum total with doubling = 32. Minimum total without doubling = 32. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | There are places for music, songs, or dances at the Producer's discretion Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | The classic Dickens Christmas tale is given a pantomime makeover |
| Synopsis | Charles Dickens and his friend Simple Sally take the audience on a journey through Ebenezer Scrooge's most memorable Christmas Eve, with comedy elements to lighten the spirits. |
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| Little Red Riding Hood by Tina & Robert Burbidge |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Production notes list recommended songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British Panto with traditional pantomime - stock characters supplemented by three pigs! Good represented by a fairy, evil by a big, bad wolf. |
| Synopsis | The wolf is out to get Red Riding Hood and has bullied three little pigs (builders and interior designers) into helping him. The woodcutter's son has fallen for Red and, with a bit of help from a good fairy, comes to her aid. |
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| Peter Pan (The Panto) by James Barry |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 23. Chorus. Characters include pirates, redskins, lost boys, mermaids, a rollerskating fairy and, of course, the crocodile. (This being a pantomime, there's a pantomime dame - in this case it's Tiger Lily.) Very flexible numbers, with choruses of various sorts. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 10 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | James Barry's full-length British pantomime treatment of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan. Whilst it's done in a modern panto style, the story remains faithful to the original. Includes flying sequences. |
| Synopsis | Peter Pan and Tinkerbell the fairy lead Wendy Darling and her brothers on an adventure to Neverland, leading to the final showdown with Peter's enemy, Captain Hook (and Hook's enemy, the crocodile).
Note that as with all adaptations of Peter Pan, we pay half the author's royalties to Great Ormond Street Hospital. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
** DVD containing two animated flying sequences by Edward Haversham (to go with 'Peter Pan - the Panto' script by James Barry). The animations should be projected onto a gauze with the actors flown behind it. The animations are silent.
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| Cinderella [Version 2] by tlc Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. The usual Cinderella selection - Prince (principal boy), Cinderella, two ugly sisters (played by men), fairy godmother, etc. plus a chorus of miscellaneous animals and an undisclosed creature that lurks in the woods. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A list of suggested songs plus some original lyrics is supplied in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | English Pantomime - with the usual ingredients - a rhyming fairy, lots of songs and comic mayhem. |
| Synopsis | The classic rags to riches story! Cinderella lives a life of drudgery, bullied by her horrible Ugly sisters, Salmonella and Listeria. Her muddled and confused father, Baron Hardup is powerless to intervene (he's more scared of them than she is!) and her only comfort is her pal Buttons! Prince Charming is holding a ball to meet his bride to be. Can this be the chance that Cinders has been waiting for? Despite the best efforts of her two malicious Ugly Sisters, Cinderella shall go to the ball with the help of her Magical Fairy Godmother! |
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** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
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Dick Whittington [Version 3] by tlc Creative
Production by Watson Players won the NODA best pantomime award for East Midlands region Derby for 2019. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 32. Chorus. Hero assumed to be played by female (panto principal boy), dame assumed played by male. Includes a cat and numerous rats. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Nine songs suggested in the Producer's copy of the script, with new/additional lyrics for six of them. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Conventional large-cast pantomime, with slapstick, puns, anachronisms, magic and opportunities for spectacle. |
| Synopsis | King Rat is threatening to take over London. Only the penniless but brave Dick Whittington and his trusty feline sidekick, Tiddles, can stop the rodent's quest for domination! Aided by the magic of a very cockney Spirit of London, the more down to earth and questionable 'help' of his mother, Dame Sarah, and his loyal but brainless pal, 'Barrow Boy' Billy, Dick's adventure takes him from the East End of London to distant tropical shores before the final showdown with the villainous King Rat and his henchrats, Nip and Tuck! |
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| The Little Mermaid [Version 3] by Warren McWilliams |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 97 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for (up to) 15 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A British family pantomime based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale. |
| Synopsis | Mermaid Mariel falls in love with the handsome Prince Derek. But the evil Sea Witch Octavia wants the Prince herself so plots to use Mariel for her own wicked gain. Featuring all the traditional elements of pantomime, a range of hit songs and great gags, this new show will warm the hearts of children of all ages. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
** Zip file containing a vocal demo, backing tracks and a lyric sheet for 'A Fairytale Ending' by Mike Benyon, which is suggested as Song 7 from 'The Little Mermaid [Version 3]' by Warren McWilliams
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| Cinderella [Version 4] by James Barry |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 23. Chorus. Nine principals plus (non-speaking but singing and dancing) chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 108 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Nine songs are suggested (others may be used at the discretion of the production). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British pantomime - comedy, magic and mayhem, told well with plenty of good jokes. |
| Synopsis | The classic rags-to-riches (kitchen to palace) story brought to the stage with a 1920s seaside setting, with mainly appropriate Jazz Age-style songs and a dream sequence Swan Lake ballet for the Wicked Stepsisters. |
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| The Wizard of Oz [Version 2] by Adrian Barradell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Aunt Em is the pantomime dame role (so usually played by a man). The chorus is assumed to include a number of children (playing the Munchkins). |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | All songs are at the discretion of the production. Please note that this is not the MGM musical of the Wizard of Oz, and the music from that version can only be used with the MGM script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | English pantomime treatment of the L. Frank Baum Story. |
| Synopsis | The classic and much-loved tale if Dorothy's trip to the land of Oz, and her quest to return to Kansas (with the help of Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion, and, of course, the Wizard of Oz) is given a panto spin while keeping the charm and (mostly!) the plot of the original. |
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