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| Panto in Snowalot by David K Bainbridge & Michael Lucas |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Characters include Australian penguins and a two-headed gatekeeper. |
| Run Time | Around 76 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script lists suggestions for 14 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British Pantomime - traditional in style but with a wholly original story. |
| Synopsis | The evil Sun Queen is determined to destroy the snowy kingdom of Snowalot, so King Belchalot and Queen Laughalot must set a quest - destroy the Sun Queen and win the hand of Princess Sneezalot! But the Princess herself is determined to go on the quest, as is the boy who loves her... |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Panto in the Jungle by David K Bainbridge & Michael Lucas |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 43. Chorus. Twelve principals plus chorus (some of whom are animals.) |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggestions for 15 songs are made in the producer's copy of the script Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomimes (with all that entails) with a jungle setting. (First published February 2010, revised edition published May 2023.) |
| Synopsis | An original panto tale about Prince Mabooboo taking the throne of his tribe, only to be usurped by the evil witch doctor Witchetty Grub. Can Ginger and Nuts, Dame Doris and Cara Loft save the day? Of course they can. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Panto in the Stone Age by David K Bainbridge & Michael Lucas |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Nineteen songs are suggested in 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 various settings. |
| Synopsis | It is the year 10,000 BC and the Mayoress of Sandstone Hills is celebrating her birthday. Granny Granite is baking the perfect birthday cake, but the evil Chief of Police and his two Constables have a scheme to ruin the day. When the Mayoress falls dangerously ill, Granny Granite, her son Flint and their pet dinosaur Rex must find an antidote. |
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| The Panto of the Opera by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. The usual pantomime juxtapositions with a dame played by a man and the principal boy played by a girl. Also includes cameo appearances by Toulouse-Lautrec and a pantomime horse. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music (piano and vocal) for 12 original songs is supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | English pantomime - a fantastic tale (in this case based on the gothic horror story 'The Phantom of the Opera') told with songs, jokes, puns and slapstick. |
| Synopsis | Mysterious goings-on at the Paris Opera house - the new owner discovers that her premises are threatened with closure by villainous English Lord, Frank Lee, that she is under perpetual scrutiny from a Health and Safety inspector and that the Opera House is haunted by the mysterious Phantom, who seems to be giving singing lessons to Christine, a newcomer who has attracted the attention of the wealthy patron, Raoul. Not only that, but the owner is under siege from a stream of composers who want to pitch ideas for new shows to her (some of which might sound a little familiar) and, what's more, a gold statue has gone missing from the roof. Can Raoul save Christine from the Phantom? Can anyone save the Opera House from Frank? |
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** A 'backing track CD' with 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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The Panto Puzzle by Mary Portalska
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. There are 13 named characters, but four are off-stage voices (could be recorded or played by anyone who isn't on stage at the time), one actor is intended to play three on-stage roles and another could play three. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A mixed-up pantomime adventure. (Non-musical, though there would be nothing to stop a production adding songs at appropriate points.) |
| Synopsis | Dame Dolly and Cheeky Charlie turn up at the theatre to find out that the pantomime has been cancelled this year. The caretaker shows them the boxes containing previous pantos, to discover that three things have been stolen from Cinderella's box by the sorceress Evilena. Dolly and Charlie must visit three other pantomimes to get them back. |
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Panto Question Time by Sue Gordon
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The characters are all nominally adults, but could be played by children. Having a pantomime theme, it would be entirely possible to play one or more of the female characters as a pantomime dame (i.e. played by a male) |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute sketch, combining pantomime themes with the format of the TV 'Question Time' panel format. |
| Synopsis | Cinderella's Stepmother, Alice (Mrs. Whittington), the Giant's Wife (from the top of the beanstalk) and Jack's Mother (from the other end) take questions from (planted in!) the audience and might well come to blows... |
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Pantomania by Mike Sparks
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Whilst Cinderella and the fairy are nominally female, this is a pantomime, and it doesn't really matter who plays which gender. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script suggests the use of one (optional) song. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A short rhyming pantomime with no set requirements. |
| Synopsis | There's Cinderella, Jack (of beanstalk fame), a dame, a comedy character, an evil henchman and a fairy. All the ingredients of a pantomime, but which one? |
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| Pantomime Academy by Helen Spencer |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 16. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 52. No chorus. The script as written features 52 speaking roles and 3 non-speaking roles but can easily be adapted to suit larger or smaller groups. Most roles are gender-neutral. |
| Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producers' copy of the script contains suggestions for well-known songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act pantomime ideal for performance by Key Stage 2 students. |
| Synopsis | The Pantomime Academy is putting on a big show to celebrate its centenery, but poor Maurice seems destined to always play the back of the cow. Follow him on his journey to be recognised as someone greater. |
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| Pantostein by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Chorus. Ten principals and a chorus. The chorus is written to be played by two people, but could be played by more. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 4 songs (with original lyrics to three of them). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A panto for a small cast.
Frankenstein as a pantomime? Shelley not! |
| Synopsis | The most gruesome pantomime of them all! Follow Boris and Bertha as they investigate creepy goings on in Cemeteria, a mountain top village in the heart of Transylvania, where dark secrets and mad scientists dwell side by side. Dracula, Dr Frank N Stein and Igor as well as the Werewolf all play their part. All the elements of traditional family entertainment are here - songs, laughter and unspeakable violence. A brand new script full of fun, slapstick and things that go bump in the night! |
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** A 'backing track CD' with 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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| Papa Panov's Special Christmas by James Potter |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Narrator, 9 other on-stage characters (with three easily doubled) and an off-stage voice. |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short festive play. Based on Leo Tolstoy's story, itself an adaptation of the traditional tale Old Pierre's Christmas Visitors. |
| Synopsis | The lonely old shoemaker Papa Panov dreams that he will be visited by Jesus on Christmas Day. Throughout the day, a series of strangers arrive at his door, and Papa Panov helps them with their problems. He realises that Jesus did come after all, in everyone he welcomed. |
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