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| Aladdin (Small Cast) by James Barry |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Songs at the producer's discretion. A few suggestions made in the Production Notes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British Panto with traditional pantomime, with jokes, slapstick and magic. |
| Synopsis | Aladdin falls for Princess Jasmine, but needs to find a fortune to convince her father of the match. He strikes lucky, with a lamp and a genie, but he has to contend with the wicked Abanaza. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Beauty and The Beast [Version 2] by James Barry |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Characters include a pantomime horse. The pantomime dame's role is that of Beauty's sister. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 11 songs and 3 dances. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | English pantomime in two acts. |
| Synopsis | A prince transformed into the Beast and a dual between the Good Fairy and her evil counterpart. Can Belle save the day? And how come Dobbin the horse is so bright? |
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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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| Cinderella [Version 4] by James Barry |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. Nine principals plus (non-speaking but singing and dancing) chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Ten songs are suggested (others may be used at the discretion of the production). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British pantomime - comedy, magic and mayhem. |
| Synopsis | The classic rags-to-riches (kitchen to palace) story brought to the stage for a sweet-natured heroine, a prince, two ugly sisters, a fairy godmother and the occasional glass slipper. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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Dick Whittington [Version 11] by James Barry
Best Seller Nominated for Best Script in the Great British Panto Awards 2020 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. It's a pantomime. Make your own mind up as to who plays what. Some doubling is essential - a running visual joke. |
| Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 15 songs & dances. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length panto for a small cast (or small group of principals and non-speaking chorus). |
| Synopsis | Dick Whittington falls for Alice Fitzwarren and becomes a proxy in Fairy Bow Bells' war with King Rat. Having met with a cat and some success working for Alderman Fitzwarren, Dick is taken on a sea voyage with Captain Horatio Barnacle (who bears a striking resemblance to Alderman Fitzwarren) and, after a shipwreck, meets the Sultan of Morocco (who bears a striking resemblance to Alderman Fitzwarren). |
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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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| Peter Pan (The Panto) by James Barry |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 23. Chorus. Characters include pirates, redskins, lost boys, mermaids, a rollerskating fairy and, of course, the crocodile. (This being a pantomime, there's a pantomime dame - in this case it's Tiger Lily.) Very flexible numbers, with choruses of various sorts. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 10 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | James Barry's full-length British pantomime treatment of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan. Whilst it's done in a modern panto style, the story remains faithful to the original. Includes flying sequences. |
| Synopsis | Peter Pan and Tinkerbell the fairy lead Wendy Darling and her brothers on an adventure to Neverland, leading to the final showdown with Peter's enemy, Captain Hook (and Hook's enemy, the crocodile).
Note that as with all adaptations of Peter Pan, we pay half the author's royalties to Great Ormond Street Hospital. |
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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
** DVD containing two animated flying sequences by Edward Haversham (to go with 'Peter Pan - the Panto' script by James Barry). The animations should be projected onto a gauze with the actors flown behind it. The animations are silent.
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| Puss in Boots (Small Cast) by James Barry |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. King can double as the Ogre. We assume that Harry (the hero) is played by a man and puss is played by a woman. (But this is pantomime, so make your own mind up!) |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One original song score provided with the Producer's Copy of the Script. Other song spots listed in the script, to be used at the discretion of the producer. |
| Style | Traditional pantomime, with jokes, slapstick and magic. |
| Synopsis | Harry, the miller's youngest son, inherits the magical talking cat (who refuses to answer to 'Tiddles'). Harry falls for the princess, but to win her hand, he has to confront the ogre in a battle of magical transformations. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Robinson Crusoe - The Truth by James Barry |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. We assume that Robinson (the hero) is played by a Female as a principle boy and that Robinson's mother is played a Male as a pantomime dame. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for four original songs are provided with the Producer's Copy of the Script. (Other songs to be used at the discretion of the producer.) |
| Style | Traditional British pantomime, with jokes, slapstick and plenty of opportunities for physical clowning. |
| Synopsis | Robinson Crusoe takes a job on a ship, not realising that the captain is a wicked pirate, seeking treasure. Inevitably, they are shipwrecked, but just when Robinson thinks he's alone on a desert island, his mother and sweetheart come to the rescue. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Sleeping Beauty [Version 3] by James Barry |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 122 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 8 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime - lots of verbal and visual jokes. |
| Synopsis | Carabosse, the wicked witch, sentences the young Princess Aurora to death by spinning wheel, but the good Fairy Sweetheart commutes this to a long boring sleep - a sleep from which the Princess can only be woken by a kiss from her true love. Matters are complicated somewhat by the arrival of a fire breathing dragon. |
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** Video and sound animation of a flying, fire-breathing dragon. An optional extra for James Barry's pantomime Sleeping Beauty [Version 3]
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [Version 3] by James Barry
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. The dwarfs are nominally male, but probably played by children. It's a pantomime, so make your own mind up about who plays Prince Valiant and Clarissa the Cook. |
| Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | There are 'slots' for eleven songs in the script, with suggested titles for seven of them in the Producer's copy of the script (the rest being left to the discretion of the production team). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime - with all that entails - including a cracking comedy cookery routine. |
| Synopsis | The time-honoured tale of Princess meets chaps of reduced stature, a poisoned apple and a happy ending.
This version also features a fabulous fairy, the castle cook and her silly son. |
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