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The Panto Puzzle by Mary Portalska
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. There are 13 named characters, but four are off-stage voices (could be recorded or played by anyone who isn't on stage at the time), one actor is intended to play three on-stage roles and another could play three. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A mixed-up pantomime adventure. (Non-musical, though there would be nothing to stop a production adding songs at appropriate points.) |
| Synopsis | Dame Dolly and Cheeky Charlie turn up at the theatre to find out that the pantomime has been cancelled this year. The caretaker shows them the boxes containing previous pantos, to discover that three things have been stolen from Cinderella's box by the sorceress Evilena. Dolly and Charlie must visit three other pantomimes to get them 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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| Puss in Boots (Small Cast) by James Barry |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. King can double as the Ogre. We assume that Harry (the hero) is played by a man and puss is played by a woman. (But this is pantomime, so make your own mind up!) |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One original song score provided with the Producer's Copy of the Script. Other song spots listed in the script, to be used at the discretion of the producer. |
| Style | Traditional pantomime, with jokes, slapstick and magic. |
| Synopsis | Harry, the miller's youngest son, inherits the magical talking cat (who refuses to answer to 'Tiddles'). Harry falls for the princess, but to win her hand, he has to confront the ogre in a battle of magical transformations. |
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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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| Robinson Crusoe - The Truth by James Barry |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. We assume that Robinson (the hero) is played by a Female as a principle boy and that Robinson's mother is played a Male as a pantomime dame. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for four original songs are provided with the Producer's Copy of the Script. (Other songs to be used at the discretion of the producer.) |
| Style | Traditional British pantomime, with jokes, slapstick and plenty of opportunities for physical clowning. |
| Synopsis | Robinson Crusoe takes a job on a ship, not realising that the captain is a wicked pirate, seeking treasure. Inevitably, they are shipwrecked, but just when Robinson thinks he's alone on a desert island, his mother and sweetheart come to the rescue. |
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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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| Santa Claus and the Last Christmas by Tom Humphreys |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggestions for 16 songs are included in 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 various settings and an original story, featuring all the traditional pantomime features like audience participation, singalongs and bad jokes! |
| Synopsis | Santa Claus is gearing up for the big day! However, the wicked Ice Queen is determined to cancel Christmas. Will Santa, his elves and helpers ever be able to stop the Ice Queen and will they do it in time for Santa to deliver all his presents? |
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| SCInderella by tlc Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. It is assumed that this will be played as a pantomime, with the dame (in this case the ugly sisters) played by a male (doubling as both sisters) and the principal boy (Prince Charming) will be played by a female. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One popular song is suggested (for which additional lyrics for one verse are supplied in the producer's copy of the script). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Small cast pantomime with integrated science content, designed to support the (English) National Curriculum Key Stages 2 and 3. (Not the whole of the curriculum, obviously!) Audience participation, slapstick, silliness and science. |
| Synopsis | Prince Charming is on the hunt for the girl of his dreams but the mean ugly sisters, Positivia and Negativia will try their best to stop Cinders from making it to the Ball. Along the way the audience and the characters learn all about pollination, separating mixtures, circuits, light and forces. With lots of audience participation, a fairy godmother and, like all good fairytales, a happy ending! |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
** MP3 backing track for I'm a Believer for use with the science pantomime SCInderella. (By arrangement with Sound-board.com)
** A four-page colour activity pack with jokes, games and puzzles to reinforce the Science from SCInderella. Ready to be downloaded from the internet (2.7MB file) and printed for your audience. (Content identical to the monochrome version.)
** A four-page black-and-white activity pack with jokes, games and puzzles to reinforce the Science from SCInderella. Ready to be downloaded from the internet (2.7MB file) and printed for your audience. (Content identical to the colour version.)
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| Sleeping Beauty [Version 3] by James Barry |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 122 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 | British pantomime - lots of verbal and visual jokes. |
| Synopsis | Carabosse, the wicked witch, sentences the young Princess Aurora to death by spinning wheel, but the good Fairy Sweetheart commutes this to a long boring sleep - a sleep from which the Princess can only be woken by a kiss from her true love. Matters are complicated somewhat by the arrival of a fire breathing dragon. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Video and sound animation of a flying, fire-breathing dragon. An optional extra for James Barry's pantomime Sleeping Beauty [Version 3]
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| The Snow Queen [Version 3] by IgLou Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. It's a panto - make up your own mind as to who does what. The chorus includes a number of speaking roles. (The number is nominally 12, but these could easily be reassigned to as few as three.) |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for three original songs are supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. All other songs are at the discretion of the producer. |
| Style | Short British pantomime, very loosely based on the Hans Christian Andersen story. [Oriiginal edition published 2009. This edition published 2011.] |
| Synopsis | Just as Rufus comes of age and is about to take his throne and marry his peasant girl love, the Snow Queen swoops, freezes his heart and persuades him to marry her instead. The lovely Sophia must rescue him, aided by her fearsome mother and the courtly Rene. |
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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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The Wicked Witches Of Oz by Peter Nuttall
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Aunt Em is written as a dame role (to be played by a man). Doubling of characters is an integral part of the script. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Small-cast pantomime based on the stories by L. Frank Baum. Not specifically musical, but a production could add songs. |
| Synopsis | A panto twist on the classic tale of Dorothy and the ruby slippers, with some familiar faces, some new characters and absolutely no mention of that tune.... |
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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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