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| Grimm Tales - For Little Horrors by Peter Nuttall |
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Jack and his Amazing Multi-Coloured Beanstalk by Geoff Bamber
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Though it is not specified in the script, Jack's Mother could be played by a Male (as a pantomime dame) and Jack could be played by a Female (as a panto principal boy). Cast includes a pantomime cow. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Simple English pantomime. Simple sets. Lots of strong characters, lots of comedy. |
| Synopsis | Jack's family are so poor that they must sell their treasured cow. Unfortunately they entrust the job to Jack, whose profit is a handful of beans. The result is a beanstalk and an attempt to rescue the kidnapped princess. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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Jack and the Beanstalk by tlc Creative
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Dame assumed to be played by Male, Principal Boy by Female. |
| Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Production notes list recommended songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British Pantomime. Strong characters, parody, slapstick, visual jokes and mayhem |
| Synopsis | A witch and a giant are ravaging the kingdom. Poverty forces Dame Trott to sell Buttercup the cow - which her son Jack exchanges for a handful of beans. Meanwhile, Princess Rose has been kidnapped by the giant. A bit of magic from Fairy Beansprout, and Jack goes to the rescue, climbing the beanstalk. |
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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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Jack and the Beanstalk [10 Minute Version] by Jonathan Edgington
Best Seller The HAMS actors playing Jack and Jill at the Oxfordshire Drama Network (Virtual) Winter Festival 2021 were winner and runner-up respectively in the 'Rising Star' award category. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Two roles are offstage voices only and could be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Altered lyrics to one well-known song, and a suggestion for a second song, are included in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A short pantomine script with two simply staged sets (living room/top of beanstalk). |
| Synopsis | A fast-moving take on the classic panto story, with all the usual suspects, songs, and lots of jokes. |
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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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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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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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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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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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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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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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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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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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