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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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| Dick Whittington and His Cat [Adult Version] by Rob Thorn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Twelve principals plus chorus. (In this incarnation, both Whittington and Sarah, the cook need to be played by men. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An Adult Pantomime - British panto format, but a lot of innuendo and adult jokes. Not specifically musical, but there is scope for adding songs. |
| Synopsis | A rip-roaring 'in-your-face' side-splitting gallop through the Dick Whittington story full of innuendo and double entendre. Not for the faint hearted, this panto is full of pace, hilarity and fun for audience and cast alike. |
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| Dick Whittington's New Tail by Sally Brown |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. It's a panto - as usual, there's lots of flexibility in assigning gender to character! |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggestions for 10 songs are included in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime with a novel take on the character and actions of Dick Whittington. |
| Synopsis | To pass Fairy Apprentice and gain her wings, Fairy Mary must rid the town of King Rat. She takes the form of a cat and helps young Dick put things to rights in the Glam Gaff club, though there are a few snags along the way. |
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| The Dieter's Lament by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One song suggestion is included with this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A comedy monologue, with a simple (table and chair) setting. |
| Synopsis | Amy has been dieting on and off for almost a year but has only lost a few pounds. As she attempts to eat yet another salad, she relates her difficulties. |
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| A Different League by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy on three simple sets. This is the sequel to Three Nil Down At Half Time, also published by Lazy Bee Scripts. The two can be performed individually or together. |
| Synopsis | A football team are looking forward to the new season when disaster strikes and the girls' league they are due to play in is disbanded. Fortunately (although much to the consternation of several parents), the team receive an unexpected invitation to play in a boy's league. |
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| Difficult People by Anton Chekhov, adapted Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two parents and their student son. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen minute play, single set, simple props, adapted from a short story by Anton Chekhov. |
| Synopsis | A family disagreement over how the money should be spent - or is it? |
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