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| Much Ado About Panto by Barry Wood |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. Characters include a dancing bear and a pantomime horse called Graham. |
| Run Time | Around 117 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for six songs with Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime with an original story incorporating characters (and an incredible number of lines) from Shakespeare's plays. |
| Synopsis | Borrowing characters and situations from the best of the Bard, this story presents a pair of star-crossed lovers, a king mistrusting his wife, girls disguised as boys (or foxes), a man with an ass's head and love triumphant. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Mudboy and the Messkings by George Douglas Lee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Mom, the parent and the announcer are (obviously) written as adults, but there is no impediment to them being played by teenagers. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for seven songs and two reprises are supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | A comedy play with music in one act. Three sets - representative rather than detailed, though the final scene does require a practical mud pit! |
| Synopsis | Robby Robindale and his gang, the Messkings, are experts in getting everything - particularly themselves - muddy. However Robby's nemesis is at hand in the form of Lilly Lucas whose ambition is to take Robby to the school dance, whether he likes it or not. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| Murdering the Mikado by Nigel Holloway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script, based on songs from The Mikado. The music covers five songs (for a variety of voices with keyboard accompaniment) plus an instrumental (scored for two keyboards). |
| Style | Full-length play (set amongst the preparations and production of a pantomime) with songs adapted from the Mikado. |
| Synopsis | An unscrupulous journalist gets his theatrical comeuppance in a desperately improvised performance of an Aladdin pantomime - based on Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado! Another hilarious romp with the Off-The-Wall Theatre Company (The fictional but all-too-familiar heroes of several Nigel Holloway plays). |
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| The Music of Christmas by Andrew Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. Flexible numbers, particularly for the songs. |
| Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] Run time assumes performance of 12 songs in the arrangements suggested by the author. |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script gives suggestions for 12 songs (with lyrics for those that are out-of-copyright). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act introduction to and exploration of Christmas songs in various styles from carols to pop songs. (An assembly and ensemble piece rather than a narrative play.) |
| Synopsis | In reviewing and performing Christmas music across the ages, the play gives lots of opportunities for various aspects of performance as well as learning. |
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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
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| Musical Maurice and the History Hop by Cat Durning |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 34. Chorus. Thirteen principals (although the lead character could be played by three different actors) and scope for a large chorus (the original production employed three school classes!) |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script gives suggestions for three songs and various pieces of incidental music to accompany the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Time-travelling school play, Multiple locations but little needed in the way of stage furniture. (Locations indicated by music or acting!) |
| Synopsis | A child and a grandfather get sucked into a whirlwind history tour by a time-traveller with a magic wand. |
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| A Musical Mother Goose by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Very flexible cast size, with the option of a non-acting chorus singing the songs (or even different groups singing different songs). |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for 8 original songs is provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Musical play (a series of linked sketches) for young children. Minimal set requirements |
| Synopsis | This is 'Mother Goose' in the American sense - a vehicle for stories and rhymes, rather than the English sense of a particular story about a character called Mother Goose. (For anyone curious about this difference, the American sense is taken from Charles Perrault's collection of fairy stories 'Les Contes de ma mère l'Oye' - literally 'The Tales of my mother the Goose' whilst the English version is the tale of the Goose that laid the golden eggs - generally given the English pantomime treatment, for which see elsewhere on this site.)
Anyway, in this case it's a collection of original stories and songs based on nursery stories and characters. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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| The Musical Scottish Play by Bill Siviter with Lea Anderson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] Up to 90 minutes with banquets, ballads and battles! |
| Music | Sheet music for six original songs (Music by Lea Anderson, Lyrics by Bill Siviter) supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | Irreverent play in verse and song, told by the protagonists and by narrators with the action mimed. A good introduction to Shakespeare's story! (The specified run-time is the minimum - banquets, battles and bopping will add to the run time!) |
| Synopsis | The Musical Scottish Play - or 'Kids in Kilts' The complete story of Shakespeare's Macbeth (witches, murder, walking trees, revenge - that sort of thing) told as in verse and songs as a play for kids. [Note that there is also a version of this play without the songs, called The Scottish Play. It is identical except that the songs have been omitted.] |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| Musketeer by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] Plus additional time for songs and dances. |
| Music | Opportunities for songs and dances at the discretion of the producer. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act play for kids. Simple sets, varied characters, strong story line. |
| Synopsis | A comic take on the life of 17th Century France, with D'Artagnan and the Musketeers in the middle of a struggle for power between the King and the villainous Cardinal Richelieu. |
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| A New You by Wesley A. Knoch |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and Vocal sheet music for nine original songs is provided with the Producer's Copy of the script |
| Style | One act musical comedy play - set in the studio of a TV make-over show complete with cheesy presenters and sponsorship jingles. |
| Synopsis | A Nasally over-blessed heroine (Miss Nodda Tragtiff) takes part in a reality Makeover show, only to find that the New You promised has caused her to lose her old friends and only gained her fleeting popularity with new people. She comes to understand that real beauty comes from within, and true friends aren't swayed by appearance. |
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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
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| Nigel and the Musketeer-ettes by Lee Sofianos |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music (piano and vocal) for 8 oiginal songs is provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | One-act musical pantomime. |
| Synopsis | The days of the Three Musketeers are over. The only one left is Porthos, and it's his daughters, Angel and Crystal, who are given the job of guarding a princess, under theat from the arch-villain, Esmeralda - advisor to the king, but bent on the ruling in her own right. Angel, Crystal and the princess flee from a kidnap plot, and look for help from the legendary d'Artagnan. What they find is not d'Artagnan but his unlikely son, Nigel, who is going to need a little training to become a hero... |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano 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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