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Rhyming Christmas Carol by Richard Coleman
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children, assumed to be played by children. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A simple, humorous rendition of Dickens' A Christmas Carol in rhyme, minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | On Christmas eve, miserly Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his old business partner and three other ghosts. Being shown the error of his ways, he then sets out to make Christmas happy for others. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Rhyming Christmas Gift by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. All characters are adults. (Except the elves.) Opportunity for a chorus as a choir of carol singers. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A simple verse play. Assumed to be done with minimal set - imagination substituting for scenery. Simple props. |
| Synopsis | A liberal adaptation (updated and versified) of the O. Henry story 'The Gift of the Magi'. An arguing couple demonstrate their love through Christmas gifts. |
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Rhyming Cinderella by Richard Coleman
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A simple, humorous rendition of the Cinderella story in rhyme, minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Cinderella is banned from the ball - a point at which a fairy godmother, a pumpkin and mice really come in handy... |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| The Rhyming Diary Of Mrs Pepys by Carolyn Kain |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 52 minutes. [Estimated!] Original production ran to 70 minutes with suggested music. |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for seven intermission pieces. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A rhyming historical comedy (lots of period detail and lots of laughs). Structurally in two acts, but possible to stage as a one-act in the sense of half an evening's entertainment. |
| Synopsis | Mrs Pepys takes her husband’s famous diary and reveals the legacy of King Charles II's womanising. The rivalries of his numerous mistresses are depicted with historical accuracy. |
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| Rhyming Goldilocks by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Whilst critters abound, Goldilocks gets the lion's share of the dialogue (as well as the bears' share of the porridge). |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming drama for kids. Single set, complete with collapsing chair. |
| Synopsis | The time-honoured tale of burgling blonde meets ursine breakfast! |
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| Rhyming Hansel and Gretel by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 21. No chorus. Characters include humans, birds, rodents, dogs and four wheels! |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A modern version of the Grimm Brothers' Hansel and Gretel told as a verse play. Simple props, no specific set requirements. |
| Synopsis | In an update to the original fable, Hansel and Gretel's parents want to get rid of them, not because the family is poor, but because the parents are selfish. This leads to the encounter with the witch with the confectionary cottage. |
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Rhyming Jack and the Beanstalk by Richard Coleman
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Opportunity for non-speaking chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Jack and the Beanstalk told in rhyme by a narrator and small cast. Minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Through a combination of poverty and gormlessness, Jack sells the family cow for a handful of magic beans, from which grows a beanstalk reaching to the clouds. Up climbs Jack, with girlfriend Nancy, and at the top they find a giant, a goose, a golden egg and a lot of trouble! |
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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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| Rhyming Macbeth by Jeremy Tyburn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 40. No chorus. There are 22 Non-speaking roles, but Narrators 1 and 2 could be further divided at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A rhyming, modern language version, one act length - written originally as a Readers' Theatre piece. |
| Synopsis | A shortened adaptation of Macbeth in rhyming form, which could be performed with a very simple set, or no set. |
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| Rhyming Magic Goose by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The score for the fairground music is provided with the Producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | Rhyming fairytale (adapted from a Grimm Brothers story) for performance by kids. Simple set and props. |
| Synopsis | The King promises half his riches to anyone who can cause his cursed daughter to laugh. Can humble Peter and his Magic Goose release the Princess from her sadness? |
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| Rhyming Mother Goose by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Mother Goose (the British pantomime version, more-or-less) told in rhyme by a narrator and small cast. Minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | As a favour from a fairy, Mother Goose acquires a bird that lays golden eggs. Unfortunately, it's a second hand goose, and its previous owner wants it back... |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| 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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| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
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