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Rhyming Jack and the Beanstalk by Richard Coleman
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Opportunity for non-speaking chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Jack and the Beanstalk told in rhyme by a narrator and small cast. Minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Through a combination of poverty and gormlessness, Jack sells the family cow for a handful of magic beans, from which grows a beanstalk reaching to the clouds. Up climbs Jack, with girlfriend Nancy, and at the top they find a giant, a goose, a golden egg and a lot of trouble! |
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| Rhyming Mother Goose by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Mother Goose (the British pantomime version, more-or-less) told in rhyme by a narrator and small cast. Minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | As a favour from a fairy, Mother Goose acquires a bird that lays golden eggs. Unfortunately, it's a second hand goose, and its previous owner wants it back... |
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| Rhyming Pinocchio by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. The narrator is Gepetto's talking cat. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A simple, humorous rendition of the story of Pinocchio in rhyme, minimal set requirements. Not quite a full-blown pantomime, but in the same comedic area. |
| Synopsis | Geppetto makes Pinocchio, whom the Blue Fairy brings alive, however, as part of the spell, if Pinocchio tells lies, his nose will grow! Pinocchio is tricked into joining Stromboli's puppet show. Stromboli plans a show for the Duke which will make him rich, he tries to get Pinocchio to flatter the Duke's court, with disastrous results for the puppet's nose. Pinocchio is trapped, but who will rescue him? |
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| Rhyming Red Riding Hood by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. (Could involve more people by using multiple narrators or having the actors mime the actions and someone else speak their words.) |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Not so much a pantomime as a humorous horror story for children! Told in rhyming couplets, including a brief nod to Monty Python. |
| Synopsis | Red Riding Hood is getting in her mothers way, and is sent off to visit her grandma. Unfortunately, a wolf gets to grandma's house first - unfortunately for the wolf, as he more than meets his match. |
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Rhyming Robin Hood by Richard Coleman
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. Most of the roles are nominally male, but don't let that put you off casting female Merry Men, for example! |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | English pantomime (more or less) as a short verse play. |
| Synopsis | Robin Hood and his Merry Men hatch a plan to rob the evil Sheriff of Nottingham and give back to the poor. The Sheriff finds out about Robin's plan and invents a scheme of his own to catch the outlaws. A few rhymes, imprisonments and swordfights later, good triumphs once again. |
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Rhyming Snow White by Richard Coleman
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Numbers are very flexible. There are nominally seven gnomes (not dwarfs in this version!), but this number could be shrunk or expanded. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A simple, humorous rendition of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in verse. Minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | On the run from the wicked queen, Snow White becomes housekeeper to a bunch of diminutive miners. The queen finds her and poisons her, but Snow White is saved by a handsome prince. The sort of thing that could happen to anyone. |
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| Robin Hood - An Investigation Into His Life And Times by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script suggests the use of one song! Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Short, risqué sort of British Pantomime. (Adult humour and something of a parody of the genre, rather than a straight retelling of the story.) |
| Synopsis | The narrator uses modern technology in his attempt to make sense of the legend of Robin Hood. He has to revert to traditional methods as Robin and his Merry Men, along with a comely Maid Marion, come to life to help him. |
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| Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wild West Wood by Mark Jack |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 34. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Ten songs, to be performed at specific points in the play, are suggested in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length pantomime using three Western-style sets. |
| Synopsis | There’s a new Sheriff in town, and he’s making life miserable for the townspeople and Robin Hood. Yes, this is the tale of the Babes in the Wood, retold for the Wild West, and panto style to boot! |
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| Robinson Crusoe: Pirates and the Caribbean Queen by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | 16 songs are suggested in the producer's copy of the script, 9 of which have suggested lyric changes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full-length pantomime with a variety of settings, which can be simplified if necessary to suit small venues. |
| Synopsis | There are plenty of swashbuckling hijinks on the high seas as Clementine Crusoe sets sail to find her treasure-seeking son, Robinson. Squire Rich, unaware that Captain Kipper and his crew are really pirates, is more interested in finding the treasure. With Davy Jones intent on scuppering the lot of them, the Unsinkable III finally runs aground on a Caribbean island. Their troubles are not over yet, though, as Queen Creole’s daughter has been kidnapped by the evil witch Wicklow. Throw a monster rat and evil Jumbie spirits into the mix and their Caribbean adventure is one to remember. |
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| Rumpelstiltskin [Rhyming] by Peter Bond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. Optional non-speaking chorus of courtiers. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Optional lyrics embedded in the script, fit to the Barcarolle from Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A short verse pantomime in two scenes for a small cast. A fun take on the Grimm tale, livened up by some comedy and a twist on the ending. |
| Synopsis | The Miller boasts that his daughter Samantha is so clever she can spin straw into gold. The King hears this and demands that she do so (with the reward of marrying the king). Samantha is a fine young lady, and so on, but has no such skill. Rumpelstiltskin, however, does and completes the task for her. After which, it turns out that Samantha doesn't think much of the reward. |
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