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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 Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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Rhyming Jack and the Beanstalk by Richard Coleman
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Opportunity for non-speaking chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Jack and the Beanstalk told in rhyme by a narrator and small cast. Minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Through a combination of poverty and gormlessness, Jack sells the family cow for a handful of magic beans, from which grows a beanstalk reaching to the clouds. Up climbs Jack, with girlfriend Nancy, and at the top they find a giant, a goose, a golden egg and a lot of trouble! |
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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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Strictly Fairytale Come Dancing by Sarah Cowan
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. Wide range of roles, including speaking, non-speaking, dancing and a pantomime donkey. Ugly Sisters and Jack's Mother could be played by boys dressed as pantomime dames for comic effect. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A list of suggested music is provided in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Large cast play for kids, with lots of opportunities for dancing. A comic collision between fairytales and TV Game Shows. |
| Synopsis | Hansel and Gretel need to escape from the clutches of their wicked stepmother. They need a wish from the good fairy - which just happens to be the prize for the competition 'Strictly Fairytale Come Dancing'. |
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Three Characters in Search of a Verdict by Sue Gordon
Production by Newton Stewart Players won The Fullarton Trophy (Best Stage presentation) and the Tom Clement memorial Trophy (Best Moment of theatre) in the Stewartry District of the SCDA festival, 2018. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. Fairytale characters, including a wolf and three bears. Optional Jury (non-speaking, but murmuring occasionally!) |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Courtroom comedy for kids! Single set, simple props. |
| Synopsis | Fairytale characters get their day in court - after an episode involving a beanstalk, Jack's mother is being done for receiving stolen property, whilst Goldilocks has been arrested for criminal damage and a wolf for the attempted murder of Red Riding Hood's Granny. With three pleas of 'not guilty' the courtroom is in for some surprising twists to familiar stories. |
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| Trouble in Pantoland by Sharon Hulm |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. There is a pantomime dame, assumed to be played by a man, and a bunch of heroic princes who could be played by women as 'principal boys'. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | 16 songs suggested in the Producer's copy of the script. Parody lyrics supplied for two songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime, incorporating threads from many stories, but anchored in its own fairy tale. |
| Synopsis | It's the eve of Cinderella's wedding, and the evil wizard ('He Whose Name No-one Can Remember') has designs on taking over the kingdom. Already he's frozen all the heroes. All? Well, all-but-one, but can a humble frog save the day? |
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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 Ups and Downs of Father Jack by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. These are pantomime characters, so Jack could very well be played as a pantomime Principal Boy (so by a girl). The baby is nominally male. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch.
From the Laughter Lines collection. |
| Synopsis | Jack comes down the beanstalk again, and discovers that there have been some changes at home... |
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