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The Emperor's New Clothes by Philippa Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 39. Chorus. Designed for a mixed cast of adults and children. |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 19 songs, with new lyrics for several of them. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Traditional pantomime. Simple sets, with scene changes created by the cast (largely using a set of posts!) |
Synopsis | Vain Emperor Montague Preen is obsessed with clothes, and he's set up a competition to furnish his next set. Conman Fabulo Fetuccini sets out to humiliate the Emperor and to relieve him of his fortune. To the rescue comes Dame Nellie Nimby, her daughter Amelia and Clover, the pantomime cow. |
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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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Entre las Líneas by Sofía Kin & Pilar Muerza |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Personajes incluyen un lobo (de cuento de hadas)! El coro (de los niños) es opcional. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Partituras musicales de trece canciones se incluyen con la copia del productor del guión. (Scores are provided with the Producer's copy of the script.) |
Style | Comedia musical para los niños en un Acto. Escenario mínimo. Utilería simple. |
Synopsis | Es hora de un cuento para dormir, pero las cosas no son como nos hemos acostumbrado a esperar de ellos... El lobo feroz tiene miedo a los niños pequeños y las princesas están luchando contra dragones para rescatar a los príncipes durmientes. Spanish translation of 'Between the Lines' by Erica Glenn. |
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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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Esther by Richard Cowling Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 32. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script comes with piano and vocal scores for 16 songs, one instrumental and 15 scene-change pieces. (A conductors score and band parts are available as an optional extra.) |
Style | Full-length Musical based on the biblical story of Esther. Designed as a school musical, could equally well be done by an adult or mixed company. |
Synopsis | King Xerxes of Persia maries Esther, a Jewish orphan who has been brought up by her uncle, Mordecai. Haman, the chief minister of Xerxes court insists that everyone bow down to him. When Mordecai refuses to do so, Haman flies into a rage and plans to kill Mordecai, and all the Jewish people in the kingdom. Mordecai calls upon Esther for help, but this means she must confront the mighty Xerxes... |
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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 ** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show ** Backing CD with instrumental version of the 16 songs and 16 musical interludes (including scene changes) for the musical Esther by Richard Cowling. ** Vocal tracks for the 16 songs (with 16 musical interludes) from the musical Esther by Richard Cowling. (Vocals by Leanne Cooper and Richard Cowling.) ** Conductor's score and band parts (keyboard, trumpet, trombone, woodwind, bass, etc.) for the songs and incidental music (32 pieces) from the musical Esther by Richard Cowling.
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Excalibur - The Pantomime by Ralph Summers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Chorus. Characters include a gorilla! |
Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | All songs at the discretion of the Producer (no suggestions given in the script). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | British pantomime - jokes, mayhem and magic, including the legendary 'Glastonbury Cabinet'. |
Synopsis | King Arthur takes Guinevere out into the country to celebrate their wedding anniversary, leaving Lancelot in charge of the Throne and Aunt Philly in charge of the preparations for the party. Excalibur is left in the care of Trainee Knights Sir Endor and Sir Price. The wicked Mordred sneaks into Camelot with a parchment that says the rightful king is whoever sits on the throne holding Excalibur. He tricks the knights and gets the sword, but is foiled by Merlin and his magical cabinet, restoring order just in time for the royal couple's return. |
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Face2Face by Helen Spencer |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 15. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 30. Minimum total without doubling = 60. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 58 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 6 optional songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A play for schools (ideal for Key Stage 2 or 3) with music, dance and a simple set. |
Synopsis | Sam is a delightful child - happy, smiley and kind to others. Well, at least that’s the impression she gives to adults. When her parents aren’t looking, or the teachers’ backs are turned, Sam reveals her true personality. |
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Figaro - The Pantomime by Matthew Harper |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Chorus size may be flexible at Producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 145 minutes. [Estimated!] This assumes 2 mins for each song, the author believes the songs should be short. |
Music | Song suggestions are provided with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full length pantomime version of Figaro, with assorted settings. |
Synopsis | A good length Pantomime retelling of Figaro, with all the expected mischievous characters. This includes a pantomime horse and of course - plenty of song and dance. |
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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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The Fish and the Ring - The Musical by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script comes with piano and vocal scores for six songs plus an instrumental reprise. |
Style | One-act musical fable for kids. |
Synopsis | When Baroness Gertrude adopts a peasant's baby daughter, a travelling hermit prophesies that the girl will marry Gertrude's son. Gertrude has already planned to marry her son to a Princess, so she tries to get rid of the child - only to find that fate brings them together again soon enough... |
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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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The Fisherman and his Wife by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music is provided with the Producer's Copy of the script for three songs, three reprises and an instrumental. |
Style | Short one-act musical play for kids (or for adults to play to kids). No set requirements, minimal props. |
Synopsis | A humble fisherman reels in a talking flounder, who claims to be an enchanted princess. When he lets it go, the fisherman's wife insists he asks the flounder to repay its debt with a series of increasingly lavish rewards. Her ambition turns to greed and eventually the flounder princess returns to take her gifts back. |
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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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The Four Musketeers by Pat Wollaston |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 12 songs, with some original lyrics. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | All of the essential ingredients of panto are here with a knockabout Dame as D'Artagnan's mother, plenty of slapstick and corny jokes and the all important opportunities for audience participation. |
Synopsis | A fusion of pantomime and classic literature that manages to do credit to both genres. With apposite music and chorus involvement the musketeers ensure that the nasty Richeliuer and his accomplice Rougeforthe are thwarted in their evil intentions for the French Royal family. |
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Frankenstein - The Monster Musical by George Douglas Lee |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with piano/vocal scores for 13 original songs. |
Style | Gothic horror musical comedy! |
Synopsis | If Mary Shelley had written a version of Frankenstein for children, this is how she might have approached it - as a heartwarming family musical, filled with mad scientists, misbegotten creatures and an angry mob! On a rainy night when the power is out, a father tells his son the story of Frankenstein, and we are transported to Victor Frankenstein's Laboratory with Mary Shelly singing of the creation of the creature. We meet the creature, his bride and a croud of villagers, led by the rabble rouser Frau Gribble, whipped into a frenzy and go in search of 'the Monster'. Eventually, they come to realise that he was just misunderstood! |
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