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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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** 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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** 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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** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
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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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| The Pied Piper of Hamelin [Version 3] by Tina & Robert Burbidge |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. It's a pantomime, with the usual ration of gender-flexibility, plus any number of rats! |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 17 songs, with some orginal lyrics. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | The story of the Pied Piper reshaped into a very satisfactory pantomime format. A good line in jokes, with plenty of cheese-related humour involved! |
| Synopsis | Alvin's a musician who loves the Mayor's daughter, but can't marry her because he's too poor. When rats plague the town, the Mayor uses them as scapegoats for the town's misery, but if Alvin can rid the town of vermin he can marry Ellie and become wealthy.... |
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| The Pied Piper of Hamelin [Version 4] by Lorraine Mason |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 22. Chorus. Flexible numbers, with choruses of townsfolk, children and rats. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 17 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime (with German setting!) |
| Synopsis | Rattenfanger the piper rids the town of rats but takes his revenge when the Mayor can't pay the agreed fee. Lots of panto action with a German Dame Pumpernickel, Hero Fritz and Villainous Rats, not forgetting sweet Anneleise or the panto cow! |
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| The Pied Piper of Spamtin by S. J. Edwards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 31 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Anarchic one-act play for children, based on the folk tale. Minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | The town of Spamtin is being overrun by rats, but the treasury is empty. Can the mayor find a solution to the problem that doesn’t require payment up front? Or will Honest Joe use the vermin problem to become the new mayor? |
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| The Pied Piper by Bob Heather |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. The usual pantomime juxtapositions are assumed, with Heidi the pantomime dame played by a man and Ralf, the principal boy, played by a young woman. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Two sets of lyrics supplied with the script, all other songs are at the discretion of the producer. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | English pantomime - comedy, silliness and puns!
[Originally published in 2006, revised edition published 2012.] |
| Synopsis | Hamlin is over-run with rats, too many for the Councillors Hans and Nees to deal with so the Council decide to respond to an advert in the local paper for a Piper who claims to be able to rid anywhere of four-legged pests. Unfortunately the Mayor can't afford to pay, so the Piper runs off with the Mayor's daughter Greta and the village children. Will Ralf and the other villagers be able to rescue Greta and the children from the Piper before it's too late? |
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