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2020 Pied Piper by Stuart Ardern
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. Some of the characters are written with a particular gender in mind, but that doesn't really matter. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Not so much a rhyming pantomime as a raging satire. Minimal sets, few props. |
| Synopsis | There's a plague of rats about to fall on Hamelin, and the Mayor has gone on holiday. Even when he gets back, his trap and trace scheme is failing. Enter the Pied Piper with a scheme for which the mayor is more than happy to take credit, but not so eager to pay... |
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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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| ABC December by Sherrill S. Cannon & Kerry E. Gallagher |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. Chorus. There are no specific characters. The lines are intended to be recited by one or more children. The lines could be spoken by individuals or an ensemble. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for ten songs to accompany the piece. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Performance piece for a nursery school / kindergarten class. |
| Synopsis | A rhyming review of December festivals (with a North American bias - it covers Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and other American celebrations, with a nod to their antecedents in other countries). |
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| The Adventures of Captain Blood by Geoff and Vera Rogers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Variable chorus size possible at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 56 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | There are 7 song suggestions included with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A family show (possibly an alternative to Pantomime) told in verse, structurally in two acts but run time is approximately one hour. |
| Synopsis | In an original comedic rhyming story, a band of treasure-crazy Pirates are caught in a storm... shipping them onto dry land. Unknown to the Pirates, this landfall will result in their meeting three women - determined to make husbands of them, and the disguised love of their press-ganged crewmember. There are opportunities for fun audience interactions and some familiar songs. |
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| Aladdina and Somebody's Magic Lamp by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Various characters written with a specific gender, but it's a pantomime so they can be switched wherever you like. |
| Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Rhyming pantomime with multiple locations but no specific set requirements. |
| Synopsis | A novel twist on the tale of Aladdin, with a female lead and a story line that moves well away from the original plot, whilst keeping lamp, genie and (the British panto setting of) Widow Twankey's laundry. |
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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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| Albert in the 21st Century by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy monologue, in the style of - and referring to - Marriott Edgar's 'Albert and the Lion' (made famous by Stanley Holloway). |
| Synopsis | You've heard how young Albert Ramsbottom
At a zoo, for a lion, was chow
Now here's a lament from Ray Lawrence
Saying things like that don't happen now! |
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Alice in Wonderland by Richard Coleman
Best Seller Production by Dingwall Academy Drama Society won the Best Stage Presentation trophy in the Highland Division of the SCDA festival 2015 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Besides the various principals, there are unspecified numbers of (animal) jurors and (up to) a whole set of chess pieces. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Rhyming fantasia on a theme of Carroll.
A whirlwind tour of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass told as a verse play. |
| Synopsis | Dreaming on a river bank, Alice sees a White Rabbit who is late for an appointment. She follows him down a rabbit hole where a Hatter, a rather decisive Queen, a thieving Knave, a couple of Kings and a host of others await. |
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| Androcles and the Lion by Peter Bond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. The chorus - of soldiers, slaves, Christians and lions - is optional. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming fable for kids. |
| Synopsis | Androcles is a man who loves all living things - he's even reluctant to kill a lamb to feed himself. So when a lion appears, he's less worried about it eating his sheep and more concerned that there's a thorn in it's paw. Helping this lion turns out to be a good move in the long term... |
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Another Cat, Another Hat by Stuart Ardern
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. As presented on the web site, the script requires a minimum cast of 15, but the Producer's Copy provides a number of variations to the text which can reduce the cast size to 10 (with doubling).
It's panto so gender is flexible. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] (Variations cutting characters and dances would bring the time down to around 20 minutes.) |
| Music | The script has several places for songs and dances at the producer's discretion. The score for one song is provided (it's not essential, but it happens to fit.) |
| Style | One-act rhyming pantomime version of Puss in Boots, designed for minimal sets but requiring a few portable items. |
| Synopsis | The miller's son, to his distress
Is poor and can't court the princess
That's something which his cat disputes -
A talking cat, it's Puss in Boots! |
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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 Ant Chant by Michal Y Noah
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Two original songs are included in this script. |
| Style | A short rhyming musical play for children. |
| Synopsis | A day in the life of an ant and their worker companions is told in musical rhyme. Adapted from the childrens' book of the same name. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Zip file containing recordings by Jonny Casto-Ardern of the two songs from 'The Ant Chant' by Michal Y Noah. The recordings come in two forms - simple backing tracks and vocal demos. Additionally, Song 2 has a demo recording of just the chant.
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| Archibald Page by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Rhyming comedy monologue |
| Synopsis | Archibald Page is an aspiring actor whose can't get any work because his face doesn't fit. He visits a plastic surgeon and subsequently has a run-in with a punch-line! |
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