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Sherlock's Excellent Adventure by James Barry
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for four original songs provided with the Producer's Copy of the Script. |
| Style | Parody of Sherlock Holmes stories, visual jokes, theatrical jokes, wordplay. Not strictly a pantomime, but has some of the elements (including Mrs. Hudson as a pantomime dame) and could fit in a slot in the panto season. |
| Synopsis | Lucy Matravers engages Holmes and Watson to resolve a dispute over a family will, bringing conflict with Holmes's arch enemy, Moriarty. |
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| Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [Play] by Dave Jeanes |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. The chorus is optional. The dwarves are all written male but have not been included in the count of definitely male characters. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full length play (with the option of music if a production wishes to add it!) This is not a British Pantomime version of the story, but fits much the same purpose - entertainment for a family audience. |
| Synopsis | The fairytale of the princess driven out by her wicked stepmother, finding refuge with a company of miners. |
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Three Musketeers by James Barry
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The Three Musketeers, the Cardinal, the Cardinal's servant, the Queen and Milady are played by the same three actors! |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for three original songs provided with the Producer's Copy of the Script. |
| Style | Hilarious adventure with the Three Musketeers. Visual jokes, physical comedy, theatrical jokes, wordplay. (Not strictly pantomime, but contains many panto elements, so would be at home in a panto season or at any other time!) |
| Synopsis | Cardinal Richelieu is trying to usurp the throne of France by stealing the crown jewels. In desperation, the Queen turns to the Athos, Porthos and Aramis. In retaliation, the Cardinal turns to his servant, Brie (played by an actor who turned up for a performance of Treasure Island) and the seductive Milady. Deception, mayhem, sword fights and hilarity ensue. |
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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
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| The Three Musketeers [Play] by Karen Letts |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy play in two acts. This is not a British Pantomime version of the story, but fits much the same purpose - entertainment for a family audience |
| Synopsis | A comic retelling of Dumas' classic tale, containing all the original elements but reconstructed in a manner that's a little... unorthodox.
D'Artagnan and the musketeers battle the wicked Cardinal Richelieu and his accomplice, Milady de Winter. |
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Who Framed the Easter Bunny? by Warren McWilliams
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. A long list of characters, but with plenty of cameos and chorus roles, so plenty of opportunities for doubling or for participation of a large company. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] Timing allows for 10 songs. |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 10 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full-length family play (with songs) with interactive quiz elements. |
| Synopsis | There's trouble brewing in Happy Kingdom. The Easter Bunny stands accused of stealing all the chocolate in the land by the wicked Halloween Queen, who wants to make Halloween last forever. The Easter Bunny needs your help before it's too late.
Follow along, help find the clues, and prove the Easter Bunny's innocence. |
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** Graphic image which might be used to form the nucleus of a flyer or poster for a production of 'Who Framed The Easter Bunny' by Warren McWilliams
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| The Wicked Witch & The Magic Shop by William Arnold Ashbrook |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. The cast includes cats and gremlins. Gladys could be played as a pantomime dame. |
| Run Time | Around 97 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script comes with the scores for 11 original songs (plus five reprises). |
| Style | A musical family show with opportunities for audience participation (therefore occupying a theatrical space close to British Pantomime). |
| Synopsis | Graveling, the evil witch, has turned a number of good people into life size dolls and cats. The young heroes, enlist the help of the owners of the Magic Shop and Marlin the decrepit magician, and together they manage to defeat the witch and her gremlin helpers. |
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| Wind in the Willows - Or A Toad in a Hole by Lee Baddock & Chris Kirby |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. Whilst most of the characters are nominally male, they are mostly animals, so you can make your own mind up as to who plays what! |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 9 songs and further pieces of incidental music. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Staging of the Kenneth Grahame story, with some elements of British pantomime. |
| Synopsis | The classic tale retold panto-style, complete with Toad's caravan, the stealing of a motor car and the battle for Toad Hall, but with a few new faces along the way. |
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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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| Windy Hollow by Ian McCutcheon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. Twelve Principals plus chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 115 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for seven songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Family show, designed to fill a similar slot to a British panto (but not sharing all the features of panto). 'Windy Hollow' is a show for all the family and for companies of all abilities with lots of opportunities for adults and children. |
| Synopsis | A wonderfully enchanting tale of woodland folk who allow us humans a glimpse into their world. This is a special gift as humans in the shape of supermarket developers are intent on destroying their habitat with their plans for a new superstore. Will Enoki's magic potions and Puffball's fairy charms frustrate these evil humans or will the woodland folk need human assistance in the form of the beautiful Chanterelle? Even the villainous Stinkhorn and her inept stooges Blewitt and Blusher have to put aside their wicked mischief to join the fight against the humans so that everyone can live happily ever after. |
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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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| Winter Tails by Jackie Carreira |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 66 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A family comedy show with entertainment working at different levels - balancing a series of fables with comedy about the actors presenting them.
Structured in two acts, but with a run-time at the boundary between one-act fplay and a full-length show. |
| Synopsis | Two out-of-work actors and a reality TV star with thespian ambitions are employed to 'improvise' a selection of animal fables, read by a magical storyteller going through the menopause. |
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| The Wizard of Oz by James Barry |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. The chorus is assumed to include a number of children (playing the Munchkins). |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for songs and dances. Please note that this is not the MGM musical of the Wizard of Oz, and the music from that version can only be used with the MGM script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Family show, with songs, visual jokes, physical comedy, wordplay. (Not strictly a British pantomime, but contains many panto elements, so would be at home in a panto season or at any other time!) |
| Synopsis | A tornado sends the farmhouse occupied by Dorothy Gale on an impromptu flight to the land of Oz, where she encounters Munchkins, witches, a scarecrow, a tin man and a lion in her quest to find the Wizard of Oz and return to her home in Kansas. |
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