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Aladdin and Alisha Baba by Dawn Cairns |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Chorus size variable at Producer's discretion |
Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Song suggestions for 17 songs 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 variations! |
Synopsis | In this Aladdin we have all the expected pantomime ingredients, plus differences - including two Dames as the mothers of Aladdin and Alisha Baba, as well as Gordon the camp genie, who helps thwart the evil Abanaza, and Mustafa with his four thieves. |
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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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Aladdin and the Wishing Tree by Peter Nuttall |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. The usual pantomime juxtapositions apply. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Production notes include suggestions for two songs (and lyrics for one of them). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | British pantomime for a small cast. Fast-paced verbal comedy. |
Synopsis | A twisted tale of lamps, genies and wishes - not the regular Aladdin story, even though it contains most of the common elements! |
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Aladdina and Somebody's Magic Lamp by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Various characters written with a specific gender, but it's a pantomime so they can be switched wherever you like. |
Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Rhyming pantomime with multiple locations but no specific set requirements. |
Synopsis | A novel twist on the tale of Aladdin, with a female lead and a story line that moves well away from the original plot, whilst keeping lamp, genie and (the British panto setting of) Widow Twankey's laundry. |
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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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Albert by Janice Sampson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] May be staged with an interval. |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy drama. Structurally in two acts, but of one-act length. Contains swearing (and a coffin). |
Synopsis | Before flying out to Sacramento to visit his ailing brother, Albert leaves a recording of a few confessions in case something happens to him. There has been a plane crash, and Albert's valedictory address is watched by his grieving son, daughter and sister, who learn a few surprising things, but are in for an even bigger surprise... |
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Albert and His Women by Richard Hills |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The youngest character is aged 52. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play. Single domestic set. Contains one mild swearword (the play, not the set). |
Synopsis | Albert's doing his best to set his 52 year old son Tom up with a female friend. Tom thinks it's to compensate for his lack of ability with women, since he never knew his mother, but actually Albert has other motives... |
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Albert and More Women by Richard Hills |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play, single (London flat) set. (This uses the same characters and setting as 'Albert and His Women', but functions as an intependent play - thus they could be used together or separately.) Contains minor swearing. |
Synopsis | Albert and his son Tom continue their search for women - Tom by taking Albert's tips and Albert by getting Tom out of the flat. But tonight they both get much more than they bargained for! |
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Albert in the 21st Century by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy monologue, in the style of - and referring to - Marriott Edgar's 'Albert and the Lion' (made famous by Stanley Holloway). |
Synopsis | You've heard how young Albert Ramsbottom At a zoo, for a lion, was chow Now here's a lament from Ray Lawrence Saying things like that don't happen now! |
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Alderman Whittington's Cat by Stuart Ardern Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. Some characters are written as male and some as female, but gender isn't important in casting. |
Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | There are spaces for song and dance routines to be added into the script, at the producer's discretion. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Pantomime in rhyming quadrameters (and a rap). No set required, but you might go to town on the props. |
Synopsis | He went to London penniless And found the town in a mess. He solved the problems with such flair He rose to be the city's mayor. This is the story of his climb Dick Whittington - a play in rhyme! |
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Alekhine's Greatest Defeat by Vithal Rajan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. Chorus. The characters include Ramanujan Varadachary, an old Indian story-teller - a sutradhari, as he is called in Indian drama tradition and his younger self in the 1920s. The (non-speaking) chorus comprises student chess players in 1920s Paris. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A combination of Indian storytelling and chess! Split-stage set, simple props, but needs a means of displaying the chess moves to the audience. |
Synopsis | Game One in the Varadachary Chess Cycle. Varadachary, the story teller, relates how he witnessed Russian Grand Master Alexander Alekhine fall in love whilst losing a chess match in Paris to a beautiful student. |
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Alessandro - Renaissance Don Juan by Nicholas Conti Finalist in the 'Dawn:-Lights Up' contest, Cuneen Arts Center. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. The Narrator is intended to double as The Count. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act romp set in 1682. Written in a style somewhere between Melodrama and Restoration Comedy! (American English.) |
Synopsis | The tale of Alessandro Stradella, musical lover. (That's musical lover as in 'musician and lothario', not as in 'fan of Rogers and Hammerstein'.) His affair with his pupil, Contessa Maria Cortese, sparks the wrath of her husband - just one of the enraged cuckolds Alessandro has left in his wake. |
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