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| The Princess and the Pea [Version 2] by Peter Bond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 89 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of this script contains suggestions for ten songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length pantomime adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale. |
| Synopsis | Princess Zabaglioni went missing as a baby, but Fairy Fettucine is sure she still lives as a peasant and will one day become a Princess again. Just as Prince Tiramisu of Trattoria is looking for a bride, as it happens! Meanwhile, the evil wizard Vermicelli persuades the Queen to outlaw chocolate. We also meet three soldiers called Here, There and Everywhere, an abominable snowman, and a rabbit called Frog. |
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| The Princess and the Pea by Luke Reilly |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 23. Chorus. The chorus play the roles of Attendants, Party Guests, Courtiers, Animals, Ghosts and, unusually, Shrubbery. |
| Run Time | Around 114 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 17 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British pantomime, taking the Hans Christian Andersen story as its starting point. |
| Synopsis | Every year, Queen Green holds a competition so that she might find a suitor for her son, Prince Pea. But her meticulous, and often impossible, challenges have (quite deliberately) left him a bachelor. So when the mischievous Mandarin Orange kidnaps the original fairy tale Princess, Cinderella, to train his two daughters, will Prince Pea finally be wed? Or will the unique charms of the boisterous Raspberry Sorbet win his mother over? And in a land where fruit and vegetables walk and talk, what exactly will be hidden beneath that famous mattress? |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| The Snow Queen [Version 2] by Tina & Robert Burbidge |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Strong female cast. Whilst 'Granny' might be played by a male as a pantomime dame, this is not essential to the part. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A list of suggested songs is provided in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Hans Christian Andersen's tale of 'The Snow Queen' delivered as an English pantomime - with jokes, songs, and the occasional accident with a large pie. |
| Synopsis | The wicked Snow Queen captures a boy, Kay, and takes him to her ice palace. Kay's friend Gerda sets out to rescue him, with the (unexpected) help of her grandmother, Annie, the village handiwoman and Summer, the Snow Queen's good sister. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| The Snow Queen [Version 3] by IgLou Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. It's a panto - make up your own mind as to who does what. The chorus includes a number of speaking roles. (The number is nominally 12, but these could easily be reassigned to as few as three.) |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for three original songs are supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. All other songs are at the discretion of the producer. |
| Style | Short British pantomime, very loosely based on the Hans Christian Andersen story. [Oriiginal edition published 2009. This edition published 2011.] |
| Synopsis | Just as Rufus comes of age and is about to take his throne and marry his peasant girl love, the Snow Queen swoops, freezes his heart and persuades him to marry her instead. The lovely Sophia must rescue him, aided by her fearsome mother and the courtly Rene. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| The Snow Queen [Version 4] by Hilary Mackelden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 28. Minimum total without doubling = 40. Chorus. Variable chorus size at Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | In two acts, this is a new look at the Hans Christian Andersen tale. |
| Synopsis | When the Snow Queen breaks her magic mirror, shards fly out into the world. She'll only see herself as ugly in every mirror, unless she retrieves every last shard from the hearts and eyes of men... Kay has the last two shards and the Snow Queen takes him prisoner, so Gerda must rescue her love from the queen. |
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| The Snow Queen [Version 5] by Andrew O'Leary |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Includes penguins and the Wild Boys who are yeti look-alikes. (This assumes that you know what a yeti looks like.) |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 10 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length pantomime riffing on the Hans Christian Andersen story. |
| Synopsis | The evil Snow Queen needs more children to work in her snow mine to fulfil her plan to dominate the world by turning it into a land of ice. Her bumbling henchmen, led by Jack Frost, set out to kidnap all the children but their plans are thwarted by Dame Rosie ably assisted by escaped penguins Pete and Percy. |
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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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| The Snow Queen [Version 6] by Mary Portalska |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. 11 principals, chorus with various cameo roles and a non-speaking bear. The chorus has a peak of 8 speaking roles, but these could be reassigned amongst a smaller chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 122 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 | Original full-length pantomime treatment of Hans Christian Andersen's icy fairytale. |
| Synopsis | Though it's summer, the Snow Queen has caused an unexpected snowy spell. Her influence even extends to fooling young Knut into giving her his brother as a servant. Now Greta sets out to save Peter, her true love, and maybe restore summer. |
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| Twelve Odd Passengers by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. The characters are nominally nine men and five women, but in the context the genders do not really matter! |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play for children. A single setting (nominally a guardroom, but only requires furniture, and not much of that). |
| Synopsis | Adapted from Hans Christian Andersen's The Mail Coach Passengers the months of the year introduce themselves with descriptions of their attributes. |
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| The Ugly Duckling by Peter Bond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. The chorus is described as 'more ducks'. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 10 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Strong original plot riffing on the Andersen story. Good takes on traditional panto scenes and a good range of characters. |
| Synopsis | Ornithologist Hans Andersen is on the trail of the very rare Cackling Duckling. With a crew of friends, including Olly Pifflewaffle, his dog Poodle Maps, and housekeepers Miss Adventure and Miss Hap, Hans sets sail for Australia. By a failure of navigation, they find themselves at Loch Ness, where they are harassed by aggressive ducks intent on taking over the world. |
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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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