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| The Magic Shoes by Jack Burgess |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 35. Chorus. Includes a dragon and an unspecified number of ghoulies. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] Timing includes an estimate for 13 songs and dances; the production may use fewer or shorter! |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 8 songs and 5 dances. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Original British pantomime. Great jokes and panto action, with opportunities for audience interaction. |
| Synopsis | King Bumbell the Good is persuaded by his brother Count Scrofula the Bad to go dragon-slaying. In his absence, Scrofula bans everything including dancing, and he attempts to marry-off Princess Inflagrante to his son Prince Eric. But never fear! Help is at hand in the form of Prince Lustin the Likely and a frog called Phineas. |
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| The Magic Tinderbox by Peter Bond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Numbers made flexible by a chorus of courtiers and a cave of dancers (who may or may not be bats). Gender flexible in the usual pantomime fashion. Oh yes, and there's a talking dog (with eyes as big as saucers). |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The script has positions for 18 songs. The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions (including some lyrics adapted for the story). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime (a variety show with a story!) very loosely based on The Tinderbox by Hans Christian Andersen. Lots of verbal humour (as you would expcet with a company of guards called Hoo, Mee, Yoo and Him). |
| Synopsis | A witch tricks a young man into fetching a tinderbox. He discovers it can summon a magic dog who can grant wishes. This sort of thing is bound to lead to trouble... (And, unexpectedly, pizza.) |
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| The Man in the Moon by Steve Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. (Lots of small speaking roles included in the totals.) Dame assumed to be played by Male, Principal Boy by Female. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions included in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | English Pantomime. Lots of knock-about clowning, flashes, bangs and spectacle, plus dreadful puns! |
| Synopsis | The queen is in thrall to the evil Al Chemist. The only way to thwart his ambitions is a journey to the moon in search of the magical moon dust which turns metal into gold. |
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| Mary Had a Little Lamb by Ian Cartwright |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Some of the roles are written male or female, but it's a panto, so cast whomsoever you like (I mean within the span of your company - so it's no good casting Sir Ian McKellen because the chances are he won't be available). |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 17 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full-length pantomime with an original story inspired by the nursery rhyme. |
| Synopsis | The evil Lady Wolfe intends to take control of Dame Dora Drover's farm. Dora lays her hopes in Professor Knutz's new shearing and knitting machine, but Knutz can't get it to work well enough to make the money they need. Fortunately a chance purchase by Dora’s daughter Mary at the livestock auction brings a talking lamb to the rescue. |
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| May The Farce Be With You by Andrew Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. The comedy cow is assumed to be two actors. |
| Run Time | Around 99 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Three songs are suggested - with altered words, described in the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length pantomime, with a small sprinkle of songs and straightforward sets. |
| Synopsis | Space superhero Luke Warmwater must thwart the plans of the evil Garth Invader thereby saving the galaxy from destruction. With his two female robots, STROP and PMT, he is forced to seek refuge from the evil Garth Invader in Jack's beanstalk - which is so large it is visible from outer space. Unfortunately the beanstalk is also inhabited by a bloodthirsty giant. |
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| Merlin - The Pantomime by Bob Heather and Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Chorus size may be variable at Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 116 minutes. [Estimated!] Dependent on the songs used. |
| Music | There are 14 song suggestions included with the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length family pantomime, with a variety of settings. |
| Synopsis | Madcap wizard Merlin and his apprentice Harry are the magicians in this magical Arthurian-style romp. Can Merlin and Harry thwart evil Ravenclaw's plans to kidnap King Arthur's daughter, Princess Avaline? Will Dame Henrietta Cupcake get a knight to remember? There's plenty of fun and comedy in this new traditional family pantomime. |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream The Pantomime by Matthew Harper |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Variable chorus number at Producer's discretion |
| Run Time | Around 155 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Songs and musical suggestions included with the Producer's copy. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length pantomime, with the Shakespearean storyline |
| Synopsis | This adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream includes all the usual pantomime characters and fun, making the original play easily accessible without losing the essence of the story. |
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| Mixed-Up Cinderella by Karen Doling |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. The usual principal boy (to be played by a girl), two ugly sisters (played by men) and rather a lot of rats and a couple of bounty hunters with the strange names of Ant and Dec. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions (plus some original lyrics) provided in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Cinderella pantomime with a few new twists - such as the arrival of a pied piper. |
| Synopsis | Cinderella is put upon by her ugly sisters and wicked stepmother, but that's not her only problem - there's a pied piper lurking, and he hasn't been paid... |
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| Mixed-Up Mother Goose by Karen Doling |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Chorus. The chorus appears mainly for the opening and closing songs. (The director could choose to make greater use of the chorus with additional songs and dances or to dispense with it altogether.) Otherwise, the usual pantomime juxtapositions, plus a cat! |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for five songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British pantomime for a small(ish) cast. A gentle, modern interpretation of a traditional story. |
| Synopsis | The tale of Mother Goose, swindled out of her golden egg-laying goose by her own desire for youth, but aided this time by Dick Whittington, on his way to London. |
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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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