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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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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! |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| 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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| The Babes in the Wood [Rhyming] by Peter Bond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Whilst the characters all have specific gender, it's a pantomime, so cast it however you like. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes lyrics for one optional song (to the tune of The Grand Old Duke of York). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A fun script which packs a lot of both physical and verbal comedy into its short running time |
| Synopsis | Ben and Lily are travelling through the dangerous Sherwood Forest, but these Babes are not as helpless as expected - they defend themselves with catapults and an assortment of vegetables against the Sheriff, the Nurse, Robin Hood, and even King Richard. |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| 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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| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
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| Beast and Beauty by Peter Bond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script, suggests a closing song, but this isn't essential. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A short verse pantomime in three scenes for a small cast. |
| Synopsis | The Beast is a Prince who had a spell put on him by a witch called Stinkweed. An insensitive Merchant visits his Palace, thinking it is a National Trust property. When the Merchant's daughter comes to stay, she is so obnoxious that the Beast can't wait to be rid of her and ends up marrying Stinkweed. |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| 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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| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
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Cinderella's Missing! by Richard Coleman
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | British pantomime with a twist on the traditional tale. |
| Synopsis | A Christmas pantomime is usually quite straightforward, but what happens when the principal member of the cast can't be found? Cinderella's missing, so Buttons must take her place! |
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| Citronella by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act rhyming pantomime, requiring little in the way of scenery. |
| Synopsis | In a mirror image of the traditional Cinderella set-up, Cintronella is a sour lazy young lady with two attractive sisters, and Prince Charming is plotting a trick with a glass slipper to avoid finding a girl to marry... It's up to the fariy godmother and the narrator to get the story back on the rails. |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| 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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| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
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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. |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| 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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| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
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Goldilocks and the Three Bears [Rhyme] by Peter Bond
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Whilst the bears are nominally male and female, they are, after all, bears, so gender will tend to be disguised! |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming play. This approaches the border of the British pantomime genre. (Make you own mind up on that point!) |
| Synopsis | The tale of the Three Bears and the diminutive housebreaker with a novel twist at the end. |
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| Hansel and Gretel [Verse] by Peter Bond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming play. This approaches the border of the British pantomime genre. (Make you own mind up on that point!) |
| Synopsis | A short rhyming play that preserves the villainous role of the father, but takes extreme liberties with other parts of the original tale, casting Hansel and Gretel in a less-than-favourable light. |
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Little Red Riding Hood [Verse] by Peter Bond
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Characters, of course, include a wolf. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Simple verse play for kids. (A sort of short British pantomime.) |
| Synopsis | Red Riding Hood, her mother, and her brother Robin (who you may know from other pantomimes) live in a cottage in the woods. One winter's day Red's mother asks her to take a Christmas hamper to her Grandma, but a Wolf is on the prowl, and there's no woodcutter in sight... |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| 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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| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
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