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| The Jabberwocky by Tony Best |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids. |
| Synopsis | A modern interpretation of Lewis Carroll's famous poem -, with a few liberties taken - to produce a riotous and very moral tale. |
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Jack and his Amazing Multi-Coloured Beanstalk by Geoff Bamber
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Though it is not specified in the script, Jack's Mother could be played by a Male (as a pantomime dame) and Jack could be played by a Female (as a panto principal boy). Cast includes a pantomime cow. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Simple English pantomime. Simple sets. Lots of strong characters, lots of comedy. |
| Synopsis | Jack's family are so poor that they must sell their treasured cow. Unfortunately they entrust the job to Jack, whose profit is a handful of beans. The result is a beanstalk and an attempt to rescue the kidnapped princess. |
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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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| Jack and Jill by Susan Vesey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. An unusual set of characters, including two fairies, three ducks, innumerable ducklings and Dobin the pantomime horse. (The duckling roles in particular are suitable for younger children.) |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] Two act structure, but one act length. |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for six songs, including some new lyrics. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime - lots of running jokes for audience participation. Two-act structure but one-act in length! |
| Synopsis | Widow Winkle is unable to pay the rent to Baron Badbottom whose daughter, Jill, thinks Jack Winkle is really a prince and so wants to marry him. Unable to raise any funds, Jack tries to contact the Water Fairy he thinks lives in the well. Stan Winkle has, meanwhile, called on the Bag Fairy for help. But, the Baron has acquired the very last wish in the land, and they have to work out how to get it off him to make all their dreams come true. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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Jack and the Beantin by Peter Bond
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Characters include the ubiquitous pantomime cow. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Three songs are suggested in the producer's copy of the script, with lyrics supplied for two of them (fitting well-known melodies). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Short British pantomimes. A cut-down version of the classic tale that includes a cut-down version of a giant! |
| Synopsis | When well-meaning Jack swaps the family cow for a tin of magic beans, he has no idea it'll lead to fortune and a family reunion! |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Jack and the Giant by Peter Nuttall |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Twenty-minute play for kids. |
| Synopsis | A brief telling of the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. Jack gets tricked into exchanging all his mother's weath for a handful of magic beans. The beans grow into a giant beanstalk which enables Jack to climb to the clouds and meet Giant Biggins...
One of Peter Nuttall's Grimm Tales (for Little Horrors) |
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| Jackie and the Bean Tin by Marcus Grollman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | No specific music or song suggestions, but there are options for song and dance interludes between scenes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act play for kids. |
| Synopsis | A few twist to the time-honoured tale of boy meets beans. This time it's a girl and the point is not to rid the world of ogres but to make sure that there are enough frightening ogres to go round! |
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| Jackpot Joy by Karen Doling |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for four songs (with adjusted lyrics to one of them). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act comedy play (with a few songs thrown-in). Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | After apparently winning the lottery one night, Joy's life is plagued by sycophantic family members angling for a portion of her seven-figure jackpot. When Joy hides her winning ticket, others are determined to take matters (and the ticket itself) into their own hands! |
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| Jane Eyre - A One Act, Musical Farce by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. One of the characters is a dog. (This is a speaking role, although most of the words are Ruff.) |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Scores for four songs and three instrumentals are included with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Eyre on a G-string. A musical comedy treatment that follows Charlotte Brontë's story accurately (within the constraints of reducing 38 chapters to a single act). |
| Synopsis | The classic Brontë tale given a comic twist, reduced to one act and set to music! Unlike any other Eyre you've seen! |
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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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| Janet and John by Michael Pearcy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama, largely through a series of intertwined monologues. |
| Synopsis | Janet and John have been married a long time, but she has no idea what announcement he might have in store for her. She only knows that it's unheard for him to give up his Friday night at the railway society to take her out to dinner. Why? |
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| Jason and the Golden Fleece by Dominique Vaughan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Chorus includes various mythical creatures! |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short epic(!) told in verse. Ancient Greek myth as a rhyming play for children. No set requirements, no props specified (though many might be used in a particular production). |
| Synopsis | The myth of Jason and the Argonauts on their quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece. A tale of heroes, kings, goddesses, sirens, harpies and the occasional shipwright. |
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