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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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| Robbins And Caruso by Ian McCutcheon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Optional chorus size at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Six 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, with island-based settings! |
| Synopsis | In this departure from the more traditional panto, successful scientist Robbins quits the rat race - to settle on a desert island, accompanied by his faithful friend, gorilla Caruso. A passing ship makes landfall and the evil Lord Ruffbottom and his scurvy crew disrupt their idyll. The action-packed script provides fun for all ages. |
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| Robin Hood by Bob Heather and Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. Since this is a pantomime, Robin Hood's Merry Men need not actually be men! This principle may well apply to other characters. Includes a pantomime horse. |
| Run Time | Around 150 minutes. [Estimated!] (Timing allows for 16 songs!) Plaza Theatre production, directed by Bob Heather, ran to 2 hrs. |
| Music | The script includes place-holders for 17 songs and dances. The Producer's Copy of the script includes specific suggestions for some of them. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime - a family show packed with heroes, villains, damsels in distress, and foolishness of many kinds! |
| Synopsis | When Robin Hood returns to Nottingham after a stint in the crusades, he meets the Sheriff's ward, Maid Marion and falls in love, only to find out that the Sheriff himself has designs on er. Marion isn't the only thing the Sheriff desires, the whole of Sherwood Forest is under threat of his evil plans when Robin's outlaws discover plans for the forest to be chopped down for the Sheriff's new money-grabbing venture. Robin and his band of Merry Men with the aid of Holly Jockey-Sticks, the woodland Fairy, Nellie Scarlet (Marion's nanny) and her son Wally set out to thwart the evil Sheriff once and for all to ensure good will always win over evil. |
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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 - The Pantomime by Bob Hammond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 31. Chorus. Many characters are written male, but this is a pantomime, so the casting is very flexible! The minimum male set is the Sheriff, Lord Knowse, Tuck, Euphonia and Richard (doubling a Villager), with Robin Hood, Marion and Ruth the Sooth played by females. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | There are places for songs in the script, but no songs specified - therefore all music is at the discretion of the production team. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime with strong characters and drama peppered with jokes. |
| Synopsis | The eternal battle between Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham, played-out against the background of a missing king and an impending wedding. A tale of argumentative outlaws, talking trees and a pantomime dog! |
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