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| Phantomime by Jonathan Goodson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | There's one suggested song for which a piano and vocal score is provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Full length comedy play in a single set. Despite the panto content, this is a play aimed at an adult cast and audience. The characters are interesting, the situation is novel, the dialogue is snappy and fun, and the conclusion is satisfying. |
| Synopsis | A novel twist on the theme of putting on a play. Bernadette's spirit must haunt the school where she was Headmistress until they put on a performance worthy to be a tribute to the village's war dead. Now she only has ex-pupil Tiffany the janitor to help her pull together the perfect panto. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Vocal Demo and rehearsal track (piano with vocal line played on another instrument) for 'Crystal Shallows', the original song from 'Phantomime' by Jonathan Goodson.
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| Phone Blackmail by David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch |
| Synopsis | While searching for his lost dog, owner Ben receives a sinister phone call. |
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| Phone for Dinner by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch. A modern comedy of telephone manners. |
| Synopsis | Terry has invited three of his old school friends over for a reunion dinner, but the evening is interrupted when each of the friends receives a phone call. |
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| The Picture of Dorian Gray by Charlie Cook adapted from Oscar Wilde |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel. A period piece (1890 and 1908), with fabulously Wildean dialogue. |
| Synopsis | Dorian Gray is a young man of unmatched charm and natural beauty. On seeing a portrait of himself, he declares he would give anything for the picture to age instead of him. Thereafter, guided and misguided by the philosophies of his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he embarks on a life of sin and decadence - during which he does not age a day, but the image in the portrait becomes crooked, aged and depraved. |
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| Pie Eyed by Barry Lambert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Dr Dorris Boffin talks a strange, clipped form of English. This is deliberate. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy. Single set - a police operations room with a single entrance (which need not be a practical door). |
| Synopsis | The rest of Detective Inspector Whalley's team put aside their differences and combine their various investigative skills to save Constable Hitchcock's career when he appears to have committed gross misconduct.
'Pie Eyed' is available with two other episodes in Inspector Whalley's Casebook. |
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| The Pied Piper [Version 5] by Steve Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Variable chorus size at Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 120 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. |
| Synopsis | A new look at the traditional story, with pantomime action and songs. The Piper weaves his magic to thwart the sneaky Town Treasurer and get the girl of his dreams. |
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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 Pied Piper [Version 6] by Sharon Hulm |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 23. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 118 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 14 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British pantomime. (Contains genuinely cheesy jokes featuring genuine cheese!) |
| Synopsis | The town of Hamelin has a problem. A plague of rascally rodents are stealing gold and sausages and with only a scaredy-cat available to deal with them there is only one thing to do - accept the offer of the Pied Piper to get rid of the rats. But there’s a snag, the Piper wants a bag of gold as payment and there just isn't any gold left in the town and he won’t accept an I.O.U. |
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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 Pied Piper and the Tail of the Rat King by Peter Nuttall |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. The usual pantomime juxtapositions apply. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's script includes the music of an original song, together with a brief reprise. Other songs may be added at the discretion of the production team. |
| Style | Pantomime treatment of the Pied Piper (although, to fit with the constraints of panto, a lot of the story has changed!) |
| Synopsis | A new twist on an old tail...sorry, tale. The Pied Piper leads all the rats away to a secret cave so that he can become Mayor of the town, but he soon reveals himself to be greedier and more of a pest than the rats ever were. Brave Rattles the rat has to try to free the rats and the town! |
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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 Pied Piper of Hamelin - A Question of Rats by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Very flexible numbers. Whilst the mayor is addressed as 'Mr Mayor', there is no other reason for that role or any other to be of specific gender. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids. |
| Synopsis | The Mayor of Hamelin needs a plan to rid the town of a gang of disagreeable rats. He decides to offer a reward for their removal and the challenge is successfully taken up by a mysterious pipe-playing stranger. However the Mayor's popularity among the celebrating townsfolk takes a downturn when he refuses to pay the stranger and the town's children go the way of the rats. Is there another plan? Apparently not. |
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| The Pied Piper of Hamelin [Version 2] by Hilary Mackelden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Most of the characters are written male, but this is panto and nobody will mind if genders are switched! Chorus of rats, dogs and cats is intended to be played by children, |
| Run Time | Around 140 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The script contains places for fourteen songs, suggestions for most of which are included in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime. A full-length show, with very simple sets, so easy to stage in a non-standard environment. |
| Synopsis | The classic tale of the Pied Piper told in panto style with a happy ending!
Hamelin's greedy mayor is up for re-election, and when the town is invaded by rats, he hires a piper to get rid of them, but then he won't pay up. |
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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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