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Mother Goose by Bob Heather & Roger Lamb ** WINNER ** Best Pantomime - Southern Echo Curtain Call Awards 2006 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. One of the characters is a goose! |
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 | Traditional pantomime characters - dame, village idiot, goodies and baddies, magic, slapstick and comedy. Published in 2005, this revised version published 2011. |
Synopsis | Mother Goose and her family become very rich, thanks to Candy the magic goose, but Mother Goose is old and ugly, and would give anything to become young and beautiful again. Vanity, the bad fairy, makes a pact with her to turn her ugliness into beauty in exchange for the magic goose. Mother Goose's silly son Billy, with the help of his sister Jill, her fiancée Jack, and Virtue, the fairy Queen, set out to get Candy back and put things right. All ends happily ever after in the best pantomime tradition. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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Mother Goose [Version 2] by TLC Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Nine principals, plus cameos from amongst the chorus roles. |
Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script contains lyrics for 9 songs which fit to well-know tunes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | British pantomime |
Synopsis | A challenge between the Demon King Mephisto and Fairy Goosedown embroils Dame Mother Goose and her family in a tale of golden eggs and a search for true beauty! A host of larger than life characters, plenty for the chorus and our usual mix of silliness, songs and slapstick! |
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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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Mr Scrooge by Peter Bond Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script contains suggestions for 7 or 8 songs (including some original lyrics). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | One-act comedy with songs and elements of English pantomime, with plenty of opportunities for audience participation. All scenes are interiors, and it could be played with a single set with items of furniture brought on to indicate the different rooms. |
Synopsis | This cut-down version of the Dickens' Christmas classic has a Sherlock Holmes cameo for good measure. Audience interaction, a moral and starving orphans mean there's something for everyone here. |
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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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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** 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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