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Rhyming Jack and the Beanstalk by Richard Coleman Best Seller |
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 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 Snow White by Richard Coleman Best Seller |
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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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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Schoolroom Sketch by tlc Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. Chorus. Pantomime dame (Male playing female) and class of children (of any age!) |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Sketch extract from English Pantomime - knockabout clowning and wordplay |
Synopsis | A teacher contends with a disruptive class! |
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Sleeping Beauty [10 Minute Version] by Jonathan Edgington Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. We've assumed that all the fairies are female and that the King is male, but it's a pantomime, and you can make your own mind up as to who plays what. |
Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short British pantomime in prose. (No songs, but the production notes include an alternative ending which suggests a song.) |
Synopsis | In this bite-sized panto, the King and Queen invite several fairies to Princess Courtney's christening, but one bad fairy places a curse on the young royal. |
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Smokin' Cinders by Leo Finn Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Characters change role within the action. |
Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short rhyming modern pantomime, with a basic set. |
Synopsis | A potted-panto version of the Cinderella story in three short scenes, with a feisty Cinders and with minimal effects. |
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A Stranger's Guide to Panto by Leo Finn |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. The numbers in the cast depend on how you deal with the dragon (two people, one person or one doubling with the villain.) Most of the roles - except the Heroine and, because this is panto, the Hero, are written male. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short (sketch-length) narrated British pantomime. Simple to stage (single set) give or take the dragon. |
Synopsis | A quick review of the major points of that most peculiarly British of shows, the Pantomime. A show that explains comedy through comedy. |
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Whittington and his Crazy Cat by Richard Coleman Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. (8 speaking parts) |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | One song suggested, but not compulsory! Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A simple, humorous rendition of the story of Mr. Whittington and his Cat told in verse. Minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | Coming to London, young Richard Whittington is taken in by Alderman Twicenightly. He finds a talking cat, a treasure map and the Alderman's daughter and together they set out to seek their fortune. |
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