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| Rapunzel [Verse] by Peter Bond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One character is optional and silent. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short verse play (probably, but not necessarily for kids). |
| Synopsis | A couple offend a witch and hand over their daughter, Rapunzel, to her by way of recompense. Rapunzel is locked-up in a tower, accessible only by a window - with the aid of her hair as a climbing rope. She stays there until she is visited by a handsome prince and the audience is visited by an unexpected plot twist! |
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| Rapunzel [Version 2] by Luke Reilly |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 92 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions are included in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length family show. |
| Synopsis | In a departure from the original story, the evil Dr Grimm imprisons Rapunzel in a tower, so as to make use of the magical by-product of her hair - to hypnotise the villagers to do her bidding. Needless to say, she is eventually thwarted by the powers of good. |
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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 has a Bad Hair Day by Jonathan Goodson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. There are 8 speaking roles for juniors, which could be played by 4 actors. The chorus could be the juniors plus the ensemble of principals or could be augmented by additional non-speaking actors. |
| Run Time | Around 102 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes the score for one original song and suggestions for 8 other songs. |
| Style | Full-length British pantomime. The original story, the characters, the jokes, and the resolution all come together to make a very satisfying script. |
| Synopsis | The earthquake-prone village of Little Thicket has a legend that, under the right circumstances, ancient buried gold will burst from the earth. Escaping her own earthquake, Rapunzel has fled to the village, followed by her wicked guardian. |
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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
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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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... |
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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 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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| The Ratcatcher's Lament 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 | Short rhyming monologue. No set requirements.
Also available as part of the Diamond Jubilee 2012 collection. |
| Synopsis | What happens when the bottom drops out of the rat catching market! |
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| The Raven by George Douglas Lee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy play for teenagers, inspired by (rather than based on) the poem by Edgar Allen Poe. Single set. |
| Synopsis | A comedic swipe at the world of sorcery, pitting the not-quite-so-brilliant Phoebus and his apprentice Bulbo, against the evil Dr Sarcophagus in a mage battle to decide the fates of many. |
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| Raw Materials by John Chambers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama for a cast of two. Simple set - essentially a desk and a pile of rags! |
| Synopsis | John Brown speaks of his troubles trying to get his memoirs of Robert Blincoe, a boy who worked in the cotton mills, published. Robert tells his own story and explains what happened to John Brown himself after three years of failure.
A window onto the industrial revolution. |
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