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| Ahmed and the Mummy by Hilary Mackelden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. Eleven principals and a chorus (with lots of cameos). It's a pantomime. The usual gender juxtapositions are open to the production! |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 15 songs, together with a couple of lyrical tweaks. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime - traditional character types, jokes and wordplay in an original story. |
| Synopsis | Prince Ahmed is looking for the lost pyramid to try and lift the curse on his family. He meets the beautiful Ophelia but can't marry until the curse is lifted. With her father and a group of heroes he must overcome greedy robbers and a mummy to claim his true love. |
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| Ali Baba [Version 3] by Hilary Mackelden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 29. Chorus. Some of the characters are nominally male or female, but this is panto, so make up your own mind who plays what! |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] The estimated run time allows time for 12 songs. |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 12 songs with some original lyrics. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British pantomime. |
| Synopsis | There's trouble in store for the Babas of Baghdad. Not only has the landlord doubled the rent, but the forty thieves, led by Sheikh Blackheart, have stolen everything in sight, and Ali's mum, Rum Baba, is getting the blame! Along with Ali's brother Cassim and girlfriend Morgiana, they must find the stolen treasures and defeat the thieves, and all before they're evicted and their home turned into a luxury resort for billionaires. It's going to be a busy day. |
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| Blue Ridge Cinders by Hilary Mackelden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. This is a British pantomime, which means the assignment of roles to genders is pretty flexible. |
| Run Time | Around 145 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 12 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | An innovative full length pantomime based on the Cinderella story. (Not quite the Wild West, but heading in that direction.) |
| Synopsis | This new look at Cinderella sets the story in the town of Golden, Virginia, USA, with all the usual panto characters, including ugly sisters and fairy godmother - plus a bear and FBI agents. |
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| The Lost World by Hilary Mackelden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 150 minutes. [Estimated!] Estimated timing includes 16 songs. |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 16 songs (with some new lyrics). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime with memorable characters, strong humour and plenty of action (including dancing dinosaurs). |
| Synopsis | In this pantomime take on Arthur Conan Doyle's ripping yarn, Professor Challenger, Lord Roxton, and their ragtag gang seek the lost word of Ugenya to discover dinosaurs. To complicate matters, Sid, great-great-grandson of a Spanish conquistador, is on their trail, hoping to get his hands on the gold his ancestor stole from the Aztecs. |
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| The Nutcracker by Hilary Mackelden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 131 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | 15 songs are suggested in the producer's copy of the script, 7 with original lyrics provided. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full-length pantomime adaptation of E.T.A. Hoffman's story, with various settings. |
| Synopsis | When the evil King Mousemat tries to invade Sweet Land and imprison the Sugar Plum Fairy, he is thwarted by Nicholas, nephew of Professor Drosselmeyer. In revenge, he has Nicholas turned into a nutcracker.To break the spell, Nicholas must defeat Mousemat and also find true love. |
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| The Pied Piper of Hamelin [Version 2] by Hilary Mackelden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Most of the characters are written male, but this is panto and nobody will mind if genders are switched! Chorus of rats, dogs and cats is intended to be played by children, |
| Run Time | Around 140 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The script contains places for fourteen songs, suggestions for most of which are included in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime. A full-length show, with very simple sets, so easy to stage in a non-standard environment. |
| Synopsis | The classic tale of the Pied Piper told in panto style with a happy ending!
Hamelin's greedy mayor is up for re-election, and when the town is invaded by rats, he hires a piper to get rid of them, but then he won't pay up. |
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| Rumpelstiltskin by Hilary Mackelden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. The usual panto characters plus an unusual creature. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the arrival of the pantomime elephant. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 11 songs, plus a lyrical tweak. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime with a story from the Grimm collection folded into a very satisfactory panto shape. |
| Synopsis | Donna wants to marry Justin Tyme, her watchmaker boyfriend, but thanks to her mum's boasting she's having to spin straw into gold for the greedy queen. Rumpelstiltskin helps her out, but she has to marry him unless she can discover his name before the wedding. |
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| The Sheriff Of Council Flats by Hilary Mackelden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. Includes a Grizzly Bear and a horse. |
| Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 14 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime with a Wild West setting. |
| Synopsis | The town of Council Flats is plagued by Six Gun the Outlaw and his band, and there's no sign of the man sent to bring the cavalry. Frank and his sister Jessie are accidentally made Sherriff and deputy - can they save the town? Panto fun out west. |
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| Sinbad [Version 2] by Hilary Mackelden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 18. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 32. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 140 minutes. [Estimated!] (Run time assumes the incorporation of 14 songs.) |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length British pantomime. |
| Synopsis | Evil Witch Wei Up is intent on being wicked and taking over as the Caliph of Persia. Sinbad and his Mate Howie Doohan ably assisted by the crew and the usual panto suspects are working hard through many adventures to foil Wei Up's plans and allow Sinbad to wed Atisha the beautiful Princess of Persia and her funky brother Khaleed to take his rightful place as Caliph. |
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| The Three Musketeers [Panto] by Hilary Mackelden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 35. Chorus. Characters include a cat and a mouse and all manner of people in disguise. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggestions for 12 songs are listed in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime (with a French flavour). |
| Synopsis | The famous story by Dumas given the panto treatment.
With the Three Musketeers sent to Egypt by Richlieu, three singers reluctantly stand in to protect the King and his new Queen from the machinations of Milady and Richlieu. They're helped by young D'Artagnan, newly arrived to become a musketeer. |
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