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| Aladdin and Abanazar by Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. A nucleus of 11 principals plus chorus (with occasional lines). Aladdin is assumed to be a principal boy (i.e. played by Female), Widow Twankey a pantomime dame (i.e. played by Male). |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for up to 16 songs. ['Up to' because use of all 16 in full might make it a long show!] Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | English pantomime - comedy, physical, visual and verbal humour. Originally published 2006,updated 2018. |
| Synopsis | Sultan Abanaza, wicked but bored, finds a magic ring which leads him on a quest for an even more valuable magic lamp. He needs the help of Aladdin, a Peking washerwoman's son and would-be suitor of the beautiful princess. Mayhem and magic ensue! |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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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 |
| 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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