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Rapunzel [Version 3] by Warren McWilliams |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Chorus size may be varied at Producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Song suggestions for 15 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 an on-stage tower setting! |
Synopsis | This fairytale is given the full panto treatment - with good defeating evil in the end. There are familiar characters, lots of corny jokes, and a variety of modern songs. |
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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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Rapunzel [Version 4] by Andrew O'Leary |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 111 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 11 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full length panto. |
Synopsis | When the wicked fairy Gothel is stripped of her powers, they are accidentally transferred to the hair of baby princess Rapunzel. Gothel spirits the baby away and years later a brave boy sets out to find her and bring her home. |
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Rapunzel II - Back To The Tower by Sian Nixon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Eleven principles plus chorus. The usual pantomime juxtapositions, plus a pantomime camel. |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 8 songs plus incidental music. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Mid-length British pantomime. A completely different angle on the story of Rapunzel, starting a long way from the tower. |
Synopsis | It's time for Princess Rapunzel to get married, and the Queen has taken the advice of her wicked advisor Willy Advisor that they should interview a dozen candidates. Willy, of course, intends to rig the competition - so that his son will win. But Rapunzel has already fallen for Prince Lufred Now, even if she doesn't know it... |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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 Ratbusters of Hamelin by Philip Bird (music Isabelle Michalakis) |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 21. No chorus. Whilst there is no formal requirement for a chorus, there are opportunities for additional townsfolk and additional children. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano/vocal scores for three original songs are included with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | Musical play for kids, with an interesting variation on the Pied Piper story. (As suits modern tastes, it comes with a happy ending, though the mayor probably wouldn't think so.) |
Synopsis | The people of Hamelin shake their mayor and town council out of their greedy complacency when the town's children are kidnapped by they hypnotic piper - assistant to the unpaid and affronted travelling doctor. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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Red Riding Hood [Version 4] by Stephen Mercer |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Variable chorus size at the Producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 87 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Songs suggestions for 13 songs are provided with the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A pantomime in two acts, with various settings. |
Synopsis | A complete re-working of the traditional fairytale retains a nod to the original, in a fast moving show - with lots of pantomime ingredients! |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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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Redd by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. Some of the characters are written with specific genders which can easily be changed! No formal chorus but the cast includes an unspecified number of dancers and members of a rock group. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play for kids. No set requirements. (A modern and very different take on the story of Red Riding Hood.) |
Synopsis | Redd. No Little, No Riding, No Hood. Just Redd. Brenda Hudd longs to be a 'celebrity' and appear in 'Wow!' magazine. Despite having no discernible talent in any direction, she determines that she will succeed in fulfilling her ambition. She takes advice from a range of questionable role models and finds herself being represented by theatrical agent, Flavius Wolf, who is keen to point out that talent is hardly a qualification in Celebland. Will Brenda, now re-branded as 'Redd' (with two Ds) master any of the skills she attempts or will she have to depend on Reality TV to be her salvation? |
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Rhyming Aladdin by Stuart Ardern |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. This is an English pantomime, so Widow Twankey could well be played as a pantomime dame and Aladdin as a principal boy (so male playing female and female playing male) |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act Rhyming English pantomime. Simple sets, mainly simple props (give or take a laundry basket on wheels). |
Synopsis | Aladdin, a washerwoman's son falls for a beautiful princess. In his urgent need for wealth, he is tricked into accompanying the wicked Abanaza on an expedition to retrieve a magic lamp. Abanaza traps Aladdin in a cave, but with a lot of magical help Aladdin escapes and (after a few twists and turns) love triumphs. |
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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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Rhyming Ali Baba by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | One set of song lyrics included, to the tune of 'Wild Rover'. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A simple version of 'Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves' told in rhyme, minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | Like all pantomime heroes, Ali Baba is broke. On his way to look for work, he witnesses a band of thieves hiding treasure in a secret cave. He overhears their password and helps himself to their treasure. Unfortunately, the thieves find out and track him down by hiding in storage jars. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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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Rhyming Beauty and The Beast by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Characters include a talking horse. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A simple, humorous rendition of the tale of Beauty and the Beast in one-act and in rhyme. |
Synopsis | A merchant goes to trade his wares and bring back gifts for his three daughters. Two of them, greedy and vain, desire jewellery, the other, fair and good-natured, wishes for a rose. But the merchant plucks a rose from the garden of the Beast, and he must pledge the Beast his daughter's hand in marriage to save his own life. |
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Rhyming Captain Hook by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. Chorus. The chorus (of Lost Boys, Indians and Pirates) is optional. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comic, rendition of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan as a rhyming pantomime. Minimal set requirements, but includes a comic cookery scene. |
Synopsis | Captain Hook plots his revenge on Peter Pan, with the help of a crocodile and a poisoned cake. Peter Pan, Tonkerbell (the punk fairy) and the crocodile have other ideas. Note that as with all adaptations of Peter Pan, we pay half the author's royalties to Great Ormond Street Hospital |
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