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2020 Pied Piper by Stuart Ardern
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. Some of the characters are written with a particular gender in mind, but that doesn't really matter. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Not so much a rhyming pantomime as a raging satire. Minimal sets, few props. |
| Synopsis | There's a plague of rats about to fall on Hamelin, and the Mayor has gone on holiday. Even when he gets back, his trap and trace scheme is failing. Enter the Pied Piper with a scheme for which the mayor is more than happy to take credit, but not so eager to pay... |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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Absolute Pantomonium! by Jon Monie
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Seven roles, but intended to be played by a cast of four. Whilst some of the roles are nominally male or female, it's a pantomime, so it's up to you how you sort this out. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 9 songs (and a reprise), with some panto-specific lyrics. All songs are at the discretion of the production. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act British pantomime with an original story written for a cast of four. |
| Synopsis | When the beloved Fairy Tales is kidnapped by the villainous Killjoy, a young unnamed girl from the village of Ensemble must locate the Magical Book of Pantomimes and embark on a journey that will change her life forever. Along for the ride are the handsome Prince Charmless and the hapless Tilly and Billy Topps from the local Panto Emporium. |
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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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Aladdin [Short Version] by Geoff Bamber
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. There is a lot of flexibility available in the casting: it would be possible, for example, to play Aladdin as a pantomime principal boy (played by F) and Widow Twankey as a Dame (played by M). |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short pantomime (generally, but not exclusively, intended to be played by children). Single set (as simple or complex as you wish). Few props. |
| Synopsis | The Emperor has arranged the marriage of his daughter, Yasmin, to the son of the Grand Vizier. However, Princess Yasmin, Aladdin and the Genie of the Lamp have other ideas. |
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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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Aladdin [Small Cast, Short Version] by tlc Creative
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Designed for a small (or very small) cast (with alternative sections to cover the maximum doubling). Jasmine intended female (optionally doubling with the slave of the ring), Abanaza male (doubling with genie), for the rest, make your own mind up! |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act British pantomime for a small cast. |
| Synopsis | Penniless wastrel Aladdin falls for Princess Jasmine. To win her, he needs a fortune, and quickly! Enter the evil Abanaza with a scheme involving a lamp, a cave and the odd genie or two... |
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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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| Aladdina and Somebody's Magic Lamp by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Various characters written with a specific gender, but it's a pantomime so they can be switched wherever you like. |
| Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Rhyming pantomime with multiple locations but no specific set requirements. |
| Synopsis | A novel twist on the tale of Aladdin, with a female lead and a story line that moves well away from the original plot, whilst keeping lamp, genie and (the British panto setting of) Widow Twankey's laundry. |
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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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| Alderman Whittington's Cat by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. Some characters are written as male and some as female, but gender isn't important in casting. |
| Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | There are spaces for song and dance routines to be added into the script, at the producer's discretion. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Pantomime in rhyming quadrameters (and a rap). No set required, but you might go to town on the props. |
| Synopsis | He went to London penniless
And found the town in a mess.
He solved the problems with such flair
He rose to be the city's mayor.
This is the story of his climb
Dick Whittington - a play in rhyme! |
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| All at Sea by Peter Ayre |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. As with all such pantomimes, there's a lot of flexibility in the casting - two of the female parts could be played by males as pantomime dames, the hero could be played by a female - the traditional pantomime principal boy. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Four songs suggested in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-Act British Pantomime - visual jokes, verbal jokes and a little vulgarity. Fairly complex sets for a short piece (but this is pantomime and the sets are flexible too!) |
| Synopsis | Sinbad the Sailor sets out to thwart the designs of Blackbeard the pirate and win the hand of the lovely Charlotte. (All this and a fairy too.) |
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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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Another Cat, Another Hat by Stuart Ardern
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. As presented on the web site, the script requires a minimum cast of 15, but the Producer's Copy provides a number of variations to the text which can reduce the cast size to 10 (with doubling).
It's panto so gender is flexible. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] (Variations cutting characters and dances would bring the time down to around 20 minutes.) |
| Music | The script has several places for songs and dances at the producer's discretion. The score for one song is provided (it's not essential, but it happens to fit.) |
| Style | One-act rhyming pantomime version of Puss in Boots, designed for minimal sets but requiring a few portable items. |
| Synopsis | The miller's son, to his distress
Is poor and can't court the princess
That's something which his cat disputes -
A talking cat, it's Puss in Boots! |
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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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Babes in the Wood [Short Version] by Geoff Bamber
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 22. Chorus. The chorus (Captain Sprague's crew) is optional. There are nominally four police constables, but these could be increased or decreased in number. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | There are opportunities for songs and dances, but no specific songs suggested in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act comedy (somewhere near an English pantomime, but not exactly that!) for kids. Nominally 5 locations, but no set requirements, so could be performed without set changes. |
| Synopsis | When prosperous businessman Edwin Merryweather is mysteriously lost at sea together with his wife, Constance, their two children, Lizzie and Tizzy, are placed in the care of their Aunt Lydia and her new husband, Lemuel Viper.
Viper has his sights set on the Merryweather fortune but he cannot get his hands on that while Lizzie and Tizzy are alive. He hatches a plot to have the girls done to death in Spooky Wood but the ineptitude of the hired killers, the interference of a posse of belligerent elves and the appearance a rather sinister old lady ensure that his plans do not run smoothly. |
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Bo Peep Gets Shut In by Jonathan Goodson
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 57 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Small-cast pantomime, structurally in two acts, but of one-act length. Simple to stage (one set representing two locations), original and very funny. (Contains one rude word which might be replaced in a polite production.) |
| Synopsis | Bo Peep and her mother are shut in their cottage thanks to an unexpected plague of wolves hounding the village. Unknown to them, the cause of the plague is actually the wicked Lupina, who has designs on Bo's magical crook. |
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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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