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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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| 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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A Fairy Tale Adventure by Sophia Holder
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 13. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 36. No chorus. Written to be performed by a mixture of (7 to 14) adults and (9 to 22) children. Could be done by a competent kids' group! |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Family show, an alternative to British Pantomime, including some similar elements such as audience interaction. (Either a long one-act play, or a short two-act!) |
| Synopsis | The Wicked Witch has changed the endings to all the Fairy Tales so that evil will triumph, and she's kidnapped the Fairy Queen to stop her reversing the spell. Only Hansel, Gretel and Paddy the Gingerbread man can save the tales. |
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| The Great Gold Dust Conspiracy by David Churchyard |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. In this pantomime various characters may be played M or F |
| Run Time | Around 145 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions provided in the Producer's copy. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length pantomime with one main (shop) set and various sub-sets. |
| Synopsis | The 25 strong cast including panto-land characters Aladdin, Beanstalk Jack, Pied Piper and Goldilocks seek out the magic gold dust which gives them their panto powers. The well drawn characters, along with Dobbin the panto horse, join together in non-stop action, song and dance, lashings of corny jokes and audience participation opportunities. |
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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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| Hamelin Rats - The Musical by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. Flexibility for choruses of children, rats and cats. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for six original songs (plus the piper's tune) supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | Short one-act musical for kids. The story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin told as a simple verse play with six songs. Minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Rats are taking over the rich town of Hamelin, so when an eccentrically dressed stranger offers to drive them away, the Mayor offers to heap him with gold. However, when the rats have disappeared, so has the Mayor's promise, till the stranger reminds the town of his musical prowess. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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| Hijacked Fairytales by Kevin Jannetts |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 34. Minimum total without doubling = 40. Chorus. The main characters were written for kids aged 9 to 15. Some of the chorus roles might easily be played by younger children. Jack talks in Scots, somewhat reminiscent of 'Oor Wullie'. [In our opinion, learning this dialect is well worth the effort!] |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script contains suggestions for 16 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act comedy musical play for kids. |
| Synopsis | Jack's a bit of a lad, and he's eager to seize a chance to get his own social worker, just like his friends have. The trouble is, Geraldine is actually a secret Fairy Godmother, and Jack finds himself in Fairytale land helping folks there to earn his way back home again. |
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| Mixed-Up Cinderella by Karen Doling |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. The usual principal boy (to be played by a girl), two ugly sisters (played by men) and rather a lot of rats and a couple of bounty hunters with the strange names of Ant and Dec. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions (plus some original lyrics) provided in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Cinderella pantomime with a few new twists - such as the arrival of a pied piper. |
| Synopsis | Cinderella is put upon by her ugly sisters and wicked stepmother, but that's not her only problem - there's a pied piper lurking, and he hasn't been paid... |
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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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| Nursery Crimes by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short dramatic pastiche of hard-boiled private eye genre, aimed at young teenagers (but frequently used by older groups). |
| Synopsis | Did he fall or was he pushed? That is the question on everyone's lips! Rumours are rife. The theories are wild and fanciful and no-one is above suspicion! However Bill, the Private Eye is on the case. Can he and Goldie solve the puzzle? |
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| The Pied Piper [Version 5] by Steve Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Variable chorus size at Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions for 15 songs are provided with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length pantomime. |
| Synopsis | A new look at the traditional story, with pantomime action and songs. The Piper weaves his magic to thwart the sneaky Town Treasurer and get the girl of his dreams. |
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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 Pied Piper [Version 6] by Sharon Hulm |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 23. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 118 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 14 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British pantomime. (Contains genuinely cheesy jokes featuring genuine cheese!) |
| Synopsis | The town of Hamelin has a problem. A plague of rascally rodents are stealing gold and sausages and with only a scaredy-cat available to deal with them there is only one thing to do - accept the offer of the Pied Piper to get rid of the rats. But there’s a snag, the Piper wants a bag of gold as payment and there just isn't any gold left in the town and he won’t accept an I.O.U. |
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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 Pied Piper and the Tail of the Rat King by Peter Nuttall |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. The usual pantomime juxtapositions apply. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's script includes the music of an original song, together with a brief reprise. Other songs may be added at the discretion of the production team. |
| Style | Pantomime treatment of the Pied Piper (although, to fit with the constraints of panto, a lot of the story has changed!) |
| Synopsis | A new twist on an old tail...sorry, tale. The Pied Piper leads all the rats away to a secret cave so that he can become Mayor of the town, but he soon reveals himself to be greedier and more of a pest than the rats ever were. Brave Rattles the rat has to try to free the rats and the town! |
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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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