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Jack and the Beanstalk [A Deadpan Panto] by Stuart Ardern
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. It's a pantomime. Make your own mind up as to who plays what. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Originally written for an unrehearsed reading at a Christmas party, so no set, simple lines, minimal action (if any) and a good deal of silliness. |
| Synopsis | With the aid of his mother, their cow, a fairy and some magic beans, Jack Trott rescues a princess and a hen from a giant and thwarts the greedy landlord. |
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| Jack and the Beanstalk [Version 2] by Bob Heather |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. Dame assumed to be played by Male, Principal Boy by Female. (Characters include a pantomime cow.) |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | All songs at the discretion of the producer. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British Pantomime with traditional pantomime characters - dame, village idiot, goodies and baddies, magic, slapstick and comedy.
Originally published in 2005, revised 2011. |
| Synopsis | Jack keeps dreaming of the missing Princess Lima, meanwhile Granny Bean is falling into debt to the villainous Squire. Jack sells their cow for a handful of beans, but the resulting beanstalk takes him to the realm of Hugh Mungus, the giant, where he rescues the missing princess. |
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| Jack and the Beanstalk [Version 3] by Steve Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. The usual pantomime juxtapositions apply! (In this version, the Giant remains offstage throughout - heard but not seen.) |
| Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script includes a list of suggested songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length English pantomime. |
| Synopsis | In a failed attempt at poverty eradication, Jack exchanges Daisy the cow for a bag of beans. In a failed attempt at recycling, his mother throws the beans out of the window. Mysteriously, a giant beanstalk grows and, on climbing it, Jack gets to fight a giant Giant, rescue the heroine and live happily ever after. (A traditional pantomime story of success through idiocy!) |
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| Jack and the Beanstalk [Version 4] by James Barry |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. This is a British pantomime. The usual juxtapositions of gender are possible! The characters include a giant and a pantomime cow. |
| Run Time | Around 110 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 | British pantomime. Song, dance, spectacle and all manner of comedy. |
| Synopsis | The kingdom is in thrall to Giant Plunder (an evil Ogre) and his wife. Poor Dame Trott and her sons Jack and Silly Billy are too poor to pay the rent. Forced to sell their family cow, Jack and Bill manage to exchange it for a mere handful of beans. A giant beanstalk ensues, and a raid on the Ogre's castle in the sky. Heroism and silliness abound! |
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| Jack and the Beanstalk [Version 5] by Jilly McNeil |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Unusually for Jack and the Beanstalk, it includes a cameo for Robin Hood and interruptions from four brownies. It also has the usual suspects, including buttercup the cow. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script contains suggestions for 15 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British Pantomime. |
| Synopsis | While the Brothers Grimm prowl the village looking for another story to add to their collection, Jack goes to sell the family cow so he can pay Baron Tightfist's new taxes. Having swapped Buttercup for beans and grown a magic beanstalk, can he find fortune enough to marry? |
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| Jack and the Beanstalk [Version 6] by James Teacher |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. It's a pantomime. Make your own mind up as to which plays what. Includes a cow and a ghost. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for four songs (with new lyrics for two of them). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime. (Structurally in three acts.) |
| Synopsis | A new look at an old favourite, with some highly entertaining and surprising twists. All of the much loved characters are here along with, of course, the beanstalk which Jack climbs twice, encountering some unexpected friends in the ogres who are not quite what they seem. Lots of hilarity, comedy business and audience participation runs through the fast paced plot. With not one but two evil villains, in Ivor Lotacash and Aster La Vista along with their inept assistants Flip and Flop, plotting to evict his mum, Dame Potts, Jack has his work cut out. With the support of his true love Bella, Jack enlists the help of the ogres to thwart the baddies and all live happily ever after. |
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| Jack and the Beanstalk [Version 7] by Luke Reilly |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions 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 | This is not the usual 'Jack and the Beanstalk' - but all the pantomime essentials are here. This version has a narrator and there is a cow and also multiple chickens - joining in all the fun, as the female giant is converted to love and the evil Baron Avarice is defeated. |
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| Jack and the Beanstalk [Version 8] by Julie Petrucci and Chris Shinn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 22. Chorus. Characters include a pantomime cow and a chicken called Henny. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] Timing assumes 12 two-minute songs. |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for eleven songs plus a reprise. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime |
| Synopsis | The time-honoured tale of boy meets beans given a few added twists, not least from the local policeman, Constable Dunstable and a Trainee Community Police Officer (TCPO) and a pair of thieves. |
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Jack and the Beantin by Peter Bond
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Characters include the ubiquitous pantomime cow. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Three songs are suggested in the producer's copy of the script, with lyrics supplied for two of them (fitting well-known melodies). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Short British pantomimes. A cut-down version of the classic tale that includes a cut-down version of a giant! |
| Synopsis | When well-meaning Jack swaps the family cow for a tin of magic beans, he has no idea it'll lead to fortune and a family reunion! |
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| Jack and the Giant by Peter Nuttall |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Twenty-minute play for kids. |
| Synopsis | A brief telling of the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. Jack gets tricked into exchanging all his mother's weath for a handful of magic beans. The beans grow into a giant beanstalk which enables Jack to climb to the clouds and meet Giant Biggins...
One of Peter Nuttall's Grimm Tales (for Little Horrors) |
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