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| Cinderella and the Glass Slipper by Dave Jeanes |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. Assume the typical English Panto juxtapositions, with men playing the ungly sisters and a girl playing the principal boy. The script also assumes that the chorus is divided into various agegroups, though this is not essential. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for up to 21 songs. (Provision for some songs is made in the estimated run time, but length of songs could be a major cause of run-time variability!) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British Pantomime, with all the usual comic ingredients. Designed for a fairly sophisticated staging, with visual gags including a revolving section of the set. |
| Synopsis | Cinderella goes from domestic drudge to pampered princess with the help of her fairy godmother! |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Dracula In Pantoland by Andrew Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Roles include bats, dwarfs and an Igor. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] Timing assumes six two-minute songs. |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for six songs.
Two of them have original lyrics and arrangements for which backing tracks are available. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British pantomime (with Transylvanian touches). |
| Synopsis | Worried about the prospects of finding a suitable wife in Transylvania, Dracula decides to spread his wings and try his luck further afield. Thanks to a glossy brochure for 'Pantoland' theme park, he is convinced that Snow White is the girl for him. Refusing to believe she is not real, he ups sticks, together with his dysfunctional household and heads west. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| The Emperor's New Clothes by Philippa Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 39. Chorus. Designed for a mixed cast of adults and children. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 19 songs, with new lyrics for several of them. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Traditional pantomime. Simple sets, with scene changes created by the cast (largely using a set of posts!) |
| Synopsis | Vain Emperor Montague Preen is obsessed with clothes, and he's set up a competition to furnish his next set. Conman Fabulo Fetuccini sets out to humiliate the Emperor and to relieve him of his fortune. To the rescue comes Dame Nellie Nimby, her daughter Amelia and Clover, the pantomime cow. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Frankenstein - The Pantomime by Martin Hailey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Ten or eleven principals backed by a chorus of villagers (sometimes waving pitchforks and flaming torches). |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Nine songs are suggested in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Monstrous British pantomime |
| Synopsis | Panto reworking of the classic 'mad scientist makes monster' story.
Mary Shelley will be turning in her grave - if she hasn't already been dug up and used for spare parts. No, on second thoughts, forget I ever said that. |
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| Jack and the Beanstalk [Version 4] by James Barry |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. This is a British pantomime. The usual juxtapositions of gender are possible! The characters include a giant and a pantomime cow. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 11 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime. Song, dance, spectacle and all manner of comedy. |
| Synopsis | The kingdom is in thrall to Giant Plunder (an evil Ogre) and his wife. Poor Dame Trott and her sons Jack and Silly Billy are too poor to pay the rent. Forced to sell their family cow, Jack and Bill manage to exchange it for a mere handful of beans. A giant beanstalk ensues, and a raid on the Ogre's castle in the sky. Heroism and silliness abound! |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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Mother Goose by Bob Heather & Roger Lamb
** WINNER ** Best Pantomime - Southern Echo Curtain Call Awards 2006 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. One of the characters is a goose! |
| Run Time | Around 110 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 | Traditional pantomime characters - dame, village idiot, goodies and baddies, magic, slapstick and comedy.
Published in 2005, this revised version published 2011. |
| Synopsis | Mother Goose and her family become very rich, thanks to Candy the magic goose, but Mother Goose is old and ugly, and would give anything to become young and beautiful again. Vanity, the bad fairy, makes a pact with her to turn her ugliness into beauty in exchange for the magic goose. Mother Goose's silly son Billy, with the help of his sister Jill, her fiancée Jack, and Virtue, the fairy Queen, set out to get Candy back and put things right. All ends happily ever after in the best pantomime tradition. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Old King Cole by Peter Bond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 23. Chorus. It's a panto - normal pantomime gender confusion applies! We also have the ever-popular pantomime pirates. (Say Aar!) And we have some rather unusual pantomime creatures. (Yes, all panto animals are unusual, but these are more unusual than that.) |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Producer's copy includes original lyrics to fifteen suggested songs. (Other songs may be substituted at the discretion of the production.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime - songs, dances, jokes, mayhem. |
| Synopsis | The hero has gone missing - or, at least, the King, and Old King Cole ought to be some sort of hero. Anyway, he's done a runner, and since then, everything at the court has turned sour. The princess has turned into a talking encyclopaedia and the Queen can barely speak. A doctor proposes a remedy - the Queen needs to laugh, but nobody seems to be able to make her so much as smile, least of all Gooseberry, the jester. Fairy Crackers sends Gooseberry on a mission - to bring back the world's funniest joke! But even if he finds it, will the Queen regain her sense of humour? |
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| Percy and The Holy Grail by Sharon Hulm |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Variable chorus size at Producer's discretion |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions are provided with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A pantomime with a good take on the Arthurian storyline. |
| Synopsis | When King Arthur is poisoned by his evil half-sister Morgana, only a drink from the fabled Holy Grail will save him. With all the knights proving unequal to the task, can young Percy master his urge to ask questions, find the Grail and win his girl? |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| The Pied Piper by Bob Heather |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. The usual pantomime juxtapositions are assumed, with Heidi the pantomime dame played by a man and Ralf, the principal boy, played by a young woman. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Two sets of lyrics supplied with the script, all other songs are at the discretion of the producer. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | English pantomime - comedy, silliness and puns!
[Originally published in 2006, revised edition published 2012.] |
| Synopsis | Hamlin is over-run with rats, too many for the Councillors Hans and Nees to deal with so the Council decide to respond to an advert in the local paper for a Piper who claims to be able to rid anywhere of four-legged pests. Unfortunately the Mayor can't afford to pay, so the Piper runs off with the Mayor's daughter Greta and the village children. Will Ralf and the other villagers be able to rescue Greta and the children from the Piper before it's too late? |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Robinson Crusoe: Pirates and the Caribbean Queen by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | 16 songs are suggested in the producer's copy of the script, 9 of which have suggested lyric changes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full-length pantomime with a variety of settings, which can be simplified if necessary to suit small venues. |
| Synopsis | There are plenty of swashbuckling hijinks on the high seas as Clementine Crusoe sets sail to find her treasure-seeking son, Robinson. Squire Rich, unaware that Captain Kipper and his crew are really pirates, is more interested in finding the treasure. With Davy Jones intent on scuppering the lot of them, the Unsinkable III finally runs aground on a Caribbean island. Their troubles are not over yet, though, as Queen Creole’s daughter has been kidnapped by the evil witch Wicklow. Throw a monster rat and evil Jumbie spirits into the mix and their Caribbean adventure is one to remember. |
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