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| Pantomime Academy by Helen Spencer |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 16. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 52. No chorus. The script as written features 52 speaking roles and 3 non-speaking roles but can easily be adapted to suit larger or smaller groups. Most roles are gender-neutral. |
| Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producers' copy of the script contains suggestions for well-known songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act pantomime ideal for performance by Key Stage 2 students. |
| Synopsis | The Pantomime Academy is putting on a big show to celebrate its centenery, but poor Maurice seems destined to always play the back of the cow. Follow him on his journey to be recognised as someone greater. |
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| Peter, Pan and the Lost Toys by Anne Bourke |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 64 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 8 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one-act pantomime for school productions. Uses some of J.M. Barrie's characters in an original story. |
| Synopsis | When a precious bear is stolen by some pirates, Peter enlists the help of some Darling children (and their step-brother) to hunt down the thieves. Meanwhile the pirates themselves are getting fed up with doing all the work for their Captain. |
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Rapunzel [Verse] by Peter Bond
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One character is optional and silent. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short verse play (probably, but not necessarily for kids). |
| Synopsis | A couple offend a witch and hand over their daughter, Rapunzel, to her by way of recompense. Rapunzel is locked-up in a tower, accessible only by a window - with the aid of her hair as a climbing rope. She stays there until she is visited by a handsome prince and the audience is visited by an unexpected plot twist! |
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| Rhyming Beauty and The Beast by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Characters include a talking horse. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A simple, humorous rendition of the tale of Beauty and the Beast in one-act and in rhyme. |
| Synopsis | A merchant goes to trade his wares and bring back gifts for his three daughters. Two of them, greedy and vain, desire jewellery, the other, fair and good-natured, wishes for a rose. But the merchant plucks a rose from the garden of the Beast, and he must pledge the Beast his daughter's hand in marriage to save his own life. |
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| Rhyming Captain Hook by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. Chorus. The chorus (of Lost Boys, Indians and Pirates) is optional. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comic, rendition of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan as a rhyming pantomime. Minimal set requirements, but includes a comic cookery scene. |
| Synopsis | Captain Hook plots his revenge on Peter Pan, with the help of a crocodile and a poisoned cake. Peter Pan, Tonkerbell (the punk fairy) and the crocodile have other ideas.
Note that as with all adaptations of Peter Pan, we pay half the author's royalties to Great Ormond Street Hospital |
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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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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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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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| 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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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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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 and his Merry Men by Bob Hammond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Variable chorus size at Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] This is dependent on the songs chosen. |
| Music | No song suggestions included. All to be chosen by the Director or Producer. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A simplified version of Robin Hood - the pantomime. |
| Synopsis | The greedy Sheriff forces the noble Robin of Locksley to become an outlaw in Sherwood, fighting to regain his confiscated estate and win back his darling Marion. With King Richard held for ransom in the Crusades, who will defeat the wicked Sheriff? |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
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