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| Aladdin [Version 7] by Adrian Barradell & Gareth Preston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. A nucleus of principals plus a large number of cameo roles. The usual pantomime juxtapositions are possible. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for seven songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime in two acts. |
| Synopsis | Aladdin, the second son of a poor Laundry owner, comes into possession of a magic lamp that grants wishes. Before he can realise his dream and marry the Princess, however, the evil Abanazar throws a spanner in the works. |
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| Aladdin [Version 8] by Tina & Robert Burbidge |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Includes a dragon. |
| Run Time | Around 108 minutes. [Estimated!] Timing assumes 12 two-minute songs. |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 12 songs with some original lyrics. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-lenghth British panto with the tale of Aladdin (set in China) framed by the storytelling of the Arabian Nights. |
| Synopsis | A play within a play, as Aladdin and his friends (including Foo the dragon) take on the evil Abanazer and end up happily ever after - also enabling storyteller Sheherezade to survive. |
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| Aladdin [Version 9] by Warren McWilliams |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Twelve principles, with a flexible chorus (at least 2M, 2F) playing the remaining roles. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 15 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British pantomime with Chinese and Egyptian settings.
First published in 2015, updated in 2024. |
| Synopsis | Abanaza, the wicked magician, needs Aladdin, the laundry boy, to help him recover a magic lamp. Aladdin, meanwhile, has his eyes set on the nearest princess. |
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| Aladdin and Abanazar by Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. A nucleus of 11 principals plus chorus (with occasional lines). Aladdin is assumed to be a principal boy (i.e. played by Female), Widow Twankey a pantomime dame (i.e. played by Male). |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for up to 16 songs. ['Up to' because use of all 16 in full might make it a long show!] Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | English pantomime - comedy, physical, visual and verbal humour. Originally published 2006,updated 2018. |
| Synopsis | Sultan Abanaza, wicked but bored, finds a magic ring which leads him on a quest for an even more valuable magic lamp. He needs the help of Aladdin, a Peking washerwoman's son and would-be suitor of the beautiful princess. Mayhem and magic ensue! |
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| Aladdin and Alisha Baba by Dawn Cairns |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Chorus size variable at Producer's discretion |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions for 17 songs 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 - with variations! |
| Synopsis | In this Aladdin we have all the expected pantomime ingredients, plus differences - including two Dames as the mothers of Aladdin and Alisha Baba, as well as Gordon the camp genie, who helps thwart the evil Abanaza, and Mustafa with his four thieves. |
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| Aladdin and the Wishing Tree by Peter Nuttall |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. The usual pantomime juxtapositions apply. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Production notes include suggestions for two songs (and lyrics for one of them). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime for a small cast. Fast-paced verbal comedy. |
| Synopsis | A twisted tale of lamps, genies and wishes - not the regular Aladdin story, even though it contains most of the common elements! |
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| Aladdina and Somebody's Magic Lamp by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Various characters written with a specific gender, but it's a pantomime so they can be switched wherever you like. |
| Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Rhyming pantomime with multiple locations but no specific set requirements. |
| Synopsis | A novel twist on the tale of Aladdin, with a female lead and a story line that moves well away from the original plot, whilst keeping lamp, genie and (the British panto setting of) Widow Twankey's laundry. |
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| Alderman Whittington's Cat by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. Some characters are written as male and some as female, but gender isn't important in casting. |
| Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | There are spaces for song and dance routines to be added into the script, at the producer's discretion. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Pantomime in rhyming quadrameters (and a rap). No set required, but you might go to town on the props. |
| Synopsis | He went to London penniless
And found the town in a mess.
He solved the problems with such flair
He rose to be the city's mayor.
This is the story of his climb
Dick Whittington - a play in rhyme! |
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| Ali Baba by Bob Hammond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. Usual pantomime juxtapositions. Ali Baba is an old man, his wife is the pantomime dame, Hassan, their son, the principal boy (so played by a girl). After that, you can make up your own mind! |
| Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 12 songs (with two more left to the imagination of the production team!) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Large-cast British Pantomime based on a tale from the 1001 Arabian Nights cycle. |
| Synopsis | Al-Sakr and his band of forty thieves have a cave full of their stolen treasure. Ali Baba finds it - leading to no end of trouble (and a lot of jokes)... |
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Ali Baba [Version 2] by Bob Heather and Cheryl Barrett
A percentage of profits from this play will be donated to St Michael's Hospice, Hereford |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 92 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for fifteen songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full lenth pantomime. |
| Synopsis | At her bakery in Cairo Fatima Baba is worried about her soggy bottom.. Will her flatcakes ever get the seal of approval from Pharaoh Rosher? Will Assam Aggie and her tea thief friends ever stop taking a tea break? And will Ali Baba defeat the evil Cassim and reach his lair in time to rescue the beautiful Morgiana? |
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