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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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| Behind You! by Sharon Hulm |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 53. No chorus. Maximum cast of 53, minimum of 12 |
| Run Time | Around 68 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggestions for eleven songs are included with the producer's copy of this script: Ten interlude songs, and one intended for performance. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A pantomime revue (a comedy sketch show with a pantomime theme) |
| Synopsis | A collection of 18 panto-themed sketches, including three witches, an interview with a genie, and Robin Hood-themed speed dating. |
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| A Boy and His Cat by Susan Vesey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. Lots of pantomime juxtapositions possible, plus cat, dog, rats, woodland creatures and the appearance (possibly the first) of the pantomime octopus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 8 songs, including some original lyrics. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British pantomime. |
| Synopsis | The story of Dick Whittington re-told in Panto style with a dog, a cat and numerous rats.
A novel (science fiction!) twist on the story, in which Dick is tricked into a body exchange and has to clear his name and regain his own body in time to marry his true love. |
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| The Complete Short Pants by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 80. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Collection of seven short rhyming pantomime scripts (ten to 15 minutes each) |
| Synopsis | The tales of Cinderella, A Christmas Carol, Snow White, Jack and the Beanstalk, Whittington and his Crazy Cat, Ali Baba and Mother Goose told in rhyme. |
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| Dick Whittington - Eighties-Style by Mark Jack |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Variable chorus size at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 139 minutes. [Estimated!] Experiential run time (first production) 1 hours 50 minutes. |
| Music | Song suggestions for 11 songs are provided with the Producer's copy. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A pantomime set in the 1980s, with the usual ingredients and multiple sets. |
| Synopsis | Young Dick takes on the forces of King Rat to save good old London Town (and mostly Alice Fitzwaterman) from the dreadful rodent infestation. Aided by his trusty cat Tommy and the Fairy of Bow Bells, Dick is bound to save the day - in 80's style. |
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Dick Whittington [Version 10] by Julie Petrucci and Chris Shinn
Performance of Dick Whittington won Best Pantomime 2015 in NODA East District 4 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 101 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 | A full length pantomime with various settings. |
| Synopsis | Dick and his cat, Tommy assist the people of London Town with the rat problem led by the evil King Rat. The search for the rats takes them to the island of Mycoco where they and the gang led by Dame Sarah land up after their ship sinks. Fortunately Dick manages to defeat King Rat and all is well in the end. |
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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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| Dick Whittington [Version 2] by Bob Heather |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Twelve major roles plus chorus (including several cameo roles). It's a pantomime - make your own mind up as to who plays what! |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Lyrics for one song included in the script, all other 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 | Penniless Dick Whittington is given a job by Alderman Fitzwarren and falls for the Alderman's daughter. With the aid of Fairy Bow-Bells, Dick has to conquer the evil King Rat in order to win her hand. |
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Dick Whittington [Version 3] by tlc Creative
Best Seller Production by Watson Players won the NODA best pantomime award for East Midlands region Derby for 2019. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 32. Chorus. Hero assumed to be played by female (panto principal boy), dame assumed played by male. Includes a cat and numerous rats. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Nine songs suggested in the Producer's copy of the script, with new/additional lyrics for six of them. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Conventional large-cast pantomime, with slapstick, puns, anachronisms, magic and opportunities for spectacle. |
| Synopsis | King Rat is threatening to take over London. Only the penniless but brave Dick Whittington and his trusty feline sidekick, Tiddles, can stop the rodent's quest for domination! Aided by the magic of a very cockney Spirit of London, the more down to earth and questionable 'help' of his mother, Dame Sarah, and his loyal but brainless pal, 'Barrow Boy' Billy, Dick's adventure takes him from the East End of London to distant tropical shores before the final showdown with the villainous King Rat and his henchrats, Nip and Tuck! |
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| Dick Whittington [Version 4] by Richard Thompson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 22. Chorus. One of the characters, is, of course, a cat. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A list of song suggestions is included in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | English Pantomime, with all that entails! |
| Synopsis | Dick Whittington and his Cat Halle, are encouraged by a strange voice to go to London to seek their fortune. There they rescue a Lord and his daughter from villains and are rewarded by being given lodgings for the night. During the night they almost manage to thwart a robbery but are wrongly accused of being the culprits and have to flee. Can Dick and Halle solve the crime and win back their place in society? |
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