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Dick Whittington [Version 11] by James Barry
Best Seller Nominated for Best Script in the Great British Panto Awards 2020 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. It's a pantomime. Make your own mind up as to who plays what. Some doubling is essential - a running visual joke. |
| Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 15 songs & dances. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length panto for a small cast (or small group of principals and non-speaking chorus). |
| Synopsis | Dick Whittington falls for Alice Fitzwarren and becomes a proxy in Fairy Bow Bells' war with King Rat. Having met with a cat and some success working for Alderman Fitzwarren, Dick is taken on a sea voyage with Captain Horatio Barnacle (who bears a striking resemblance to Alderman Fitzwarren) and, after a shipwreck, meets the Sultan of Morocco (who bears a striking resemblance to Alderman Fitzwarren). |
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| Dick Whittington [Version 2] by Bob Heather |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Twelve major roles plus chorus (including several cameo roles). It's a pantomime - make your own mind up as to who plays what! |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Lyrics for one song included in the script, all other songs at the discretion of the producer. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British Pantomime with traditional pantomime characters - dame, village idiot, goodies and baddies, magic, slapstick and comedy.
Originally published in 2005, revised 2011. |
| Synopsis | Penniless Dick Whittington is given a job by Alderman Fitzwarren and falls for the Alderman's daughter. With the aid of Fairy Bow-Bells, Dick has to conquer the evil King Rat in order to win her hand. |
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Dick Whittington [Version 3] by tlc Creative
Best Seller Production by Watson Players won the NODA best pantomime award for East Midlands region Derby for 2019. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 32. Chorus. Hero assumed to be played by female (panto principal boy), dame assumed played by male. Includes a cat and numerous rats. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Nine songs suggested in the Producer's copy of the script, with new/additional lyrics for six of them. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Conventional large-cast pantomime, with slapstick, puns, anachronisms, magic and opportunities for spectacle. |
| Synopsis | King Rat is threatening to take over London. Only the penniless but brave Dick Whittington and his trusty feline sidekick, Tiddles, can stop the rodent's quest for domination! Aided by the magic of a very cockney Spirit of London, the more down to earth and questionable 'help' of his mother, Dame Sarah, and his loyal but brainless pal, 'Barrow Boy' Billy, Dick's adventure takes him from the East End of London to distant tropical shores before the final showdown with the villainous King Rat and his henchrats, Nip and Tuck! |
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| Dick Whittington [Version 4] by Richard Thompson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 22. Chorus. One of the characters, is, of course, a cat. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A list of song suggestions is included in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | English Pantomime, with all that entails! |
| Synopsis | Dick Whittington and his Cat Halle, are encouraged by a strange voice to go to London to seek their fortune. There they rescue a Lord and his daughter from villains and are rewarded by being given lodgings for the night. During the night they almost manage to thwart a robbery but are wrongly accused of being the culprits and have to flee. Can Dick and Halle solve the crime and win back their place in society? |
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| Dick Whittington [Version 5] by Sean Gilbert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. This is pantomime so the usual liberties with character gender are expected. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for 6 original songs is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script |
| Style | British pantomime. |
| Synopsis | Penniless traveller Dick has reached London in search of golden pavements. Falling for Alice Fitzwarren, he resolves to become rich enough to win her. He's adopted by some talking cats and takes on the Evil Ming and his minion who are determined to take over London. |
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| Dick Whittington [Version 6] by Gareth Preston and Pamela Hope |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. It's a British pantomime, so make your mind up as to who does what. Includes a cat and a chorus of kittens. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 8 songs to accompany the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime - jokes, slapstick, that sort of thing. |
| Synopsis | Penniless Dick is seeking his fortune. Taken on by Alderman Fitzwarren, all looks good until Dick is set up by the henchmen of wicked Baroness Bedknobs. Can he restore his good name, win his fortune and the hand of his love? |
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Dick Whittington [Version 7] by Cheryl Barrett
Production by Angles Theatre won the NODA East, District Four Regional Award for Excellence, 2011 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. The characters include a cat, a camel and a rat pack. |
| Run Time | Around 125 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The script indicates places for 15 songs. The choice of songs is left to the discretion of the producer, but suggestions are made in the prodution notes (part of the Producer's Copy of the script). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime - magic, mayhem and corny jokes.
[Originally published in 2011, revised in 2013] |
| Synopsis | The classic story of Boy meets Cat, meets girl, meets rats and becomes Lord Mayor, told in a panto style. This version stars the incomparable Frankie Binatra and his Rat Pack as the villains. |
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| Dick Whittington [Version 8] by Bob Hammond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Fourteen principals (including principal cats and rats!) plus chorus of rats and sailors. |
| Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Whilst the script contains placeholders for twelve songs, all songs are left to the discretiion of the production team. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British pantomime - comedy, variety, mayhem. A new look at an old favourite, with all the ingredients and characters necessary for a feast of panto fun. |
| Synopsis | King Rat has left, and there's a truce between the Cats and Rats of old London town - so much so that there's a romance developing between Rosamund the rat and Bruiser the cat! In the human world, Alice and Dick's eyes meet and it's love at first sight. Things go awry as Dick is wrongly accused of stealing a bag of gold and, to make it worse, King Rat returns having learnt the art of hypnotism. Trouble ensues but good prevails and, as Shakespeare the cat says, All's well that ends well. Hmm, he thinks that phrase could be useful for him... |
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| Dick Whittington [Version 9] by Warren McWilliams |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Variable chorus size at Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 86 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions for 13 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 various settings. |
| Synopsis | A re-working of the traditional story in pantomime, retaining all the usual characters - but Tommy the cat is not all he seems... |
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| Dick Whittington and His Cat by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 22. Chorus. Dame assumed to be played by Male, Principal Boy by Female. Cast includes cat, rats, camel and a cameo appearance of a pantomime horse. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for 9 original songs supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | British Pantomime. Strong characters, tons of jokes, puns, parody, and a dancing cat |
| Synopsis | Enlisting the help of a cat, a camel and an uncannily familiar bard, Dick Whittington battles rats and pirates, survives a shipwreck and an encounter with an unusual smuggler to win the hand of the Lord Mayor's daughter. |
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