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Puss In Boots
Author Limelight Scripts

Roles 16 principals, some of which are smaller roles. Plus several minor speaking roles.

Run time Approximately 120 minutes (not including the interval) and assuming that you use the full number of suggested songs and music pieces. But obviously the runtime is very dependent on your own production.

Music All of Limelight Scripts own titles come with a full, suggested songs and music cues list.

Style Great characters, including an Ogre and Goblins, a love interest, strong Dame, terrific comedy scenes throughout, slapstick, panto donkey.

Synopsis Fairy Feline comes to help young Tom claim his inheritance. But she has to do battle to an evil Demon who loves to cause trouble for the sake of it. In the meantime, Tom's brothers have been forced to sell the mill after the Demon opens a hyper-mill and forces them out of business. He then cons them into selling the mill to himself. Tom returns home from a life at sea to discover he has inherited the princely sum of one golden Guinea and a cat. He then falls in love with a visiting Princess whose parents refuse to let her have anything to do with any boy who isn't fabulously rich. So Tom sets out to gain his fortune and marry her. It then turns out that the cat has been placed there by Fairy Feline, and becomes the key to Tom's sucess or failure. A traditional tale with plenty of great comedy.

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Robinson Crusoe Author Limelight Scripts

Roles 12 principals 3 or 4 minor speaking parts plus a chorus.

Run time Approximately 120 minutes (not including the interval) and assuming that you use the full number of suggested songs and music pieces. But obviously the runtime is very dependent on your own production.

Music All of Limelight Scripts own titles come with a full, suggested songs and music cues list.

Style Traditional pantomime adventure, full of pirates, cannibals, slapstick, big comedy scenes, plus Glady's the man-eating giant stinkwort.

Synopsis Jolly japes on the high seas. Robinson Crusoe likes everyone to know that he is a ‘world famous explorer’ the only problem is that no one seems to have heard of him. Join him and his mother as he set’s sail on his latest ‘adventure’ and she sets sail in search of duty free. The ship’s crew includes Captain Codpiece who has yet to navigate a ship out of the dock without it hitting the harbour wall and sinking. Dr Mudd who is supposed to be a botanist searching for the man-eating giant stinkwort, but is really secret agent Daniel Defoe. Throw in comic baddies Swash and Buckle who are agents for Blackbeard the pirate, who is really ginger. Pirates, cannibals and Man Friday who is a vegetarian cannibal, and you have the plot for a rollicking fun filled panto.

Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Robin Hood
(ver 1) Author Limelight Scripts

Roles 16 principals 4 minor speaking parts plus a chorus.

Run time Approximately 120 minutes (not including the interval) and assuming that you use the full number of suggested songs and music pieces. But obviously the runtime is very dependent on your own production.

Music All of Limelight Scripts own titles come with a full, suggested songs and music cues list.

Style Packed with jokes, comedy, traditional dame, comic villains, and slapstick routines.

Synopsis Shenanigans in Sherwood, sees Robin Hood and his hapless band of misfits pit themselves against the wicked Sheriff of Nottingham and Prince John, who are assisted by two clueless sidekicks, Smash and Grab. When Friar Tuck is kidnapped the merry men enlist the help of the mercenary Wise Woman, only to find they can't afford her prices. Wonder at the suicidal bravery of Little John, and join in his latest fire fighting routine. Witness the slapstick (optional extra scene) trial of Friar Tuck, and scratch your head in bewilderment at the stupid guard's sketch. And get ready to enjoy a musical treat from the Alan-A-Dale collection of single tune songs. Meet Dame Courgette, who worries in case she has a bear behind. And hair therapist Will Scarlet, who worries about everything. Add to this Friar Tuck's infamous turnip stew, plus a manic jailer with a taste for rats. And you have a recipe for laughter, sure to be reported by the constantly appearing CNN news reporter.

Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Robin Hood
(ver 2) Author Graham J. Evans

Roles 13 principals several minor speaking parts plus a chorus.

Run time Approximately 120 minutes (not including the interval) and assuming that you use the full number of suggested songs and music pieces. But obviously the runtime is very dependent on your own production.

Music Suggested throughout script.

Style Traditional panto full of comedy.

Synopsis Fun and games in Sherwood with Robin and the Merry Men, whose antics are overseen by the magical Wood Nymphs. Includes numbskull Normans who help, or should that be 'hinder' the nasty Sheriff of Nottingham. Also features an archery contest starring the miopic Friar Tuck. A super panto, that's really worth a look.

Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Scrooge Author Limelight Scripts

Roles 14 principals 5 smaller speaking roles. Plus several cameo roles. Plenty of scope for actors to play 2 or even 3 roles, so less people required than might first appear.

Run time Approximately 120 minutes (not including the interval) and assuming that you use the full number of suggested songs and music pieces. But obviously the runtime is very dependent on your own production.

Music All of Limelight Scripts own titles come with a full, suggested songs and music cues list.

Style Traditional panto, involving music, comedy, drama and slapstick.

Synopsis The famous Charles Dickens characterisation of the old miser Ebeneezer Scrooge is given the panto treatment in this version of A Christmas Carol. The story is set in Scrooges' Chocolate Factory and follows the miserable behaviour of Scrooge towards his downtrodden workers led by Bob Cratchit. It is Christmas Eve and Scrooge is being his usual miserly self, he rages at his workers for having putting up decorations and is equally mean to the factory cook, Jan Butty. Scrooge's kind and forgiving Nephew Fred, invites Scrooge to Christmas lunch but his offer is summarily dismissed by his Uncle. But things are about to change for Scrooge. Strange things begin to happen in the factory, and Scrooge is then visited by three ghosts of Christmas. They show him his past and future life based on his miserly behaviour, and eventually Scrooge sees the error of his ways in an emotional finale.

Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Sinbad Author Limelight Scripts

Roles 9 principals 7 minor roles, plus a chorus and a camel (if you have problems sourcing a camel outfit, you can substitute a horse and alter any references to Humpy the camel)

Run time Approximately 120 minutes (not including the interval) and assuming that you use the full number of suggested songs and music pieces. But obviously the runtime is very dependent on your own production.

Music All of Limelight Scripts own titles come with a full, suggested songs and music cues list.

Style Comedy, adventure, drama, love interst and a slapstick wallpapering scene,

Synopsis Sinbad returns home from his latest seafaring adventure, and his poor mother is expecting to help keep her from being evicted by her landlord and is gobsmacked when Sinbad informs her that he has swopped all the treasure he had collected for a 'magic sword'. Sinbad can't show them any magic and his mother resigns herself to the fact that she will be evicted from her home. However Sinbad is convinced that the 'magic sword' will eventually lead him to untold wealth. In order to placate his mother, Sinbad goes to the bazaar to buy her a present. There he meets the Princess Yasmin and they fall in love. But the palace Vizier has designs on the princess and her father's throne and frames Sinbad for 'stealing a jewel from the princesses palanquin. Sinbad escapes capture and sets off to the Island of Loadsawonga, unaware that Yasmin and her handmaiden, plus his mother and brother have secretly joined the ship. On the Island they meet a devious native High Priest who has convinced the Islanders that a cave houses a terrible dragon that must be appeased by daily offerings of gold and jewels. The dragon dosen't exist, and the High Priest intends to take the gold for himself and escape to South America. The Vizier follows Sinbad to the Island, and the outcome is not what either he or the High Priest had hoped for.

Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Sleeping Beauty (ver 1) Author Limelight Scripts

Roles 14 principals 4 minor speaking parts plus a chorus.

Run time Approximately 120 minutes (not including the interval) and assuming that you use the full number of suggested songs and music pieces. But obviously the runtime is very dependent on your own production.

Music All of Limelight Scripts own titles come with a full, suggested songs and music cues list.

Style The traditional story with some added twists, involving a strong dame, village idiot, evil witch, comic villains, slapstick, and audience participation in a running gag.

Synopsis Dame Thyme's family has hit on hard times, and she and her son Justin have been surviving on a diet of beetroot for months. Justin is sent off to the village to pawn his mother’s wedding ring, and there he meets Princess Nightingale the beautiful daughter of the toffee nosed king Rolo. Who is masquerading as a villager in order to escape the attentions of the evil witch Zendora. Later the action heats up with the preparations for the royal ball, and we meet the feuding royal cooks Salt and Pepper. Who play out a vigorous slapstick kitchen scene with comic villains Sage and Onion, in a hilarious send up of the `Can't cook won't cook' TV programme refereed by the foppish royal Valet. This panto has plenty of comedy, and great scope for audience participation. Plus a village idiot who wanders through scenes for no apparent reason carrying an ever present cardboard box, the contents of which keeps everyone guessing and involves the audience in the `What's in the box Walter' routine. And not forgetting the climax when Dame Thyme’s dark secret is finally revealed.

Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Sleeping Beauty (ver 2) Author Bob Marden

Roles 12 principals plus a chorus.

Run time Approximately 120 minutes (not including the interval) and assuming that you use the full number of suggested songs and music pieces. But obviously the runtime is very dependent on your own production.

Music Songs suggested throughout the script.

Style Traditional panto, with slapstick, comedy and magic.

Synopsis Fun and frolics in this version of Sleeping Beauty, with hobgoblins, and a typical over the top Dame character.

Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Sleeping Beauty (ver 3) Author Graham J. Evans

Roles 15 principals, plus several minor roles and a chorust.

Run time Approximately 100 minutes (not including the interval) and assuming that you use the full number of suggested songs and music pieces. But obviously the runtime is very dependent on your own production.

Music Suggested throughout the script.

Style Traditional panto.

Synopsis A very funny version of the Sleeping Beauty story.

Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Sleeping Beauty (ver 4) Author Ian Bettridge

Roles 12 principals, plus chorus and a Ghost.

Run time Approximately 100 minutes (not including the interval) and assuming that you use the full number of suggested songs and music pieces. But obviously the runtime is very dependent on your own production.

Music Musical numbers placement suggested throughout the script - songs left to your own choice.

Style Traditional panto.

Synopsis Another excellent version of the Sleeping Beauty story.

Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

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Puss In Boots	Author	Limelight Scripts
	Roles	16 principals, some of which are smaller roles. Plus several minor speaking roles.
	Run time	Approximately 120 minutes (not including the interval) and assuming that you use the full number of suggested songs and music pieces. But obviously the runtime is very dependent on your own production.
	Music	All of Limelight Scripts own titles come with a full, suggested songs and music cues list.
	Style	Great characters, including an Ogre and Goblins, a love interest, strong Dame, terrific comedy scenes throughout, slapstick, panto donkey.
	Synopsis	Fairy Feline comes to help young Tom claim his inheritance. But she has to do battle to an evil Demon who loves to cause trouble for the sake of it. In the meantime, Tom's brothers have been forced to sell the mill after the Demon opens a hyper-mill and forces them out of business. He then cons them into selling the mill to himself. Tom returns home from a life at sea to discover he has inherited the princely sum of one golden Guinea and a cat. He then falls in love with a visiting Princess whose parents refuse to let her have anything to do with any boy who isn't fabulously rich. So Tom sets out to gain his fortune and marry her. It then turns out that the cat has been placed there by Fairy Feline, and becomes the key to Tom's sucess or failure. A traditional tale with plenty of great comedy.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.


Robinson Crusoe	Author	Limelight Scripts
	Roles	12 principals 3 or 4 minor speaking parts plus a chorus.
	Run time	Approximately 120 minutes (not including the interval) and assuming that you use the full number of suggested songs and music pieces. But obviously the runtime is very dependent on your own production.
	Music	All of Limelight Scripts own titles come with a full, suggested songs and music cues list.
	Style	Traditional pantomime adventure, full of pirates, cannibals, slapstick, big comedy scenes, plus Glady's the man-eating giant stinkwort.
	Synopsis	Jolly japes on the high seas. Robinson Crusoe likes everyone to know that he is a ‘world famous explorer’ the only problem is that no one seems to have heard of him. Join him and his mother as he set’s sail on his latest ‘adventure’ and she sets sail in search of duty free. The ship’s crew includes Captain Codpiece who has yet to navigate a ship out of the dock without it hitting the harbour wall and sinking. Dr Mudd who is supposed to be a botanist searching for the man-eating giant stinkwort, but is really secret agent Daniel Defoe. Throw in comic baddies Swash and Buckle who are agents for Blackbeard the pirate, who is really ginger. Pirates, cannibals and Man Friday who is a vegetarian cannibal, and you have the plot for a rollicking fun filled panto.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.


Robin Hood (ver 1)	Author	Limelight Scripts
	Roles	16 principals 4 minor speaking parts plus a chorus.
	Run time	Approximately 120 minutes (not including the interval) and assuming that you use the full number of suggested songs and music pieces. But obviously the runtime is very dependent on your own production.
	Music	All of Limelight Scripts own titles come with a full, suggested songs and music cues list.
	Style	Packed with jokes, comedy, traditional dame, comic villains, and slapstick routines.
	Synopsis	Shenanigans in Sherwood, sees Robin Hood and his hapless band of misfits pit themselves against the wicked Sheriff of Nottingham and Prince John, who are assisted by two clueless sidekicks, Smash and Grab. When Friar Tuck is kidnapped the merry men enlist the help of the mercenary Wise Woman, only to find they can't afford her prices. Wonder at the suicidal bravery of Little John, and join in his latest fire fighting routine. Witness the slapstick (optional extra scene) trial of Friar Tuck, and scratch your head in bewilderment at the stupid guard's sketch. And get ready to enjoy a musical treat from the Alan-A-Dale collection of single tune songs. Meet Dame Courgette, who worries in case she has a bear behind. And hair therapist Will Scarlet, who worries about everything. Add to this Friar Tuck's infamous turnip stew, plus a manic jailer with a taste for rats. And you have a recipe for laughter, sure to be reported by the constantly appearing CNN news reporter.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.


Robin Hood (ver 2)	Author	Graham J. Evans
	Roles	13 principals several minor speaking parts plus a chorus.
	Run time	Approximately 120 minutes (not including the interval) and assuming that you use the full number of suggested songs and music pieces. But obviously the runtime is very dependent on your own production.
	Music	Suggested throughout script.
	Style	Traditional panto full of comedy.
	Synopsis	Fun and games in Sherwood with Robin and the Merry Men, whose antics are overseen by the magical Wood Nymphs. Includes numbskull Normans who help, or should that be 'hinder' the nasty Sheriff of Nottingham. Also features an archery contest starring the miopic Friar Tuck. A super panto, that's really worth a look.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.


Scrooge	Author	Limelight Scripts
	Roles	14 principals 5 smaller speaking roles. Plus several cameo roles. Plenty of scope for actors to play 2 or even 3 roles, so less people required than might first appear.
	Run time	Approximately 120 minutes (not including the interval) and assuming that you use the full number of suggested songs and music pieces. But obviously the runtime is very dependent on your own production.
	Music	All of Limelight Scripts own titles come with a full, suggested songs and music cues list.
	Style	Traditional panto, involving music, comedy, drama and slapstick.
	Synopsis	The famous Charles Dickens characterisation of the old miser Ebeneezer Scrooge is given the panto treatment in this version of A Christmas Carol. The story is set in Scrooges' Chocolate Factory and follows the miserable behaviour of Scrooge towards his downtrodden workers led by Bob Cratchit. It is Christmas Eve and Scrooge is being his usual miserly self, he rages at his workers for having putting up decorations and is equally mean to the factory cook, Jan Butty. Scrooge's kind and forgiving Nephew Fred, invites Scrooge to Christmas lunch but his offer is summarily dismissed by his Uncle. But things are about to change for Scrooge. Strange things begin to happen in the factory, and Scrooge is then visited by three ghosts of Christmas. They show him his past and future life based on his miserly behaviour, and eventually Scrooge sees the error of his ways in an emotional finale.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.


Sinbad	Author	Limelight Scripts
	Roles	9 principals 7 minor roles, plus a chorus and a camel (if you have problems sourcing a camel outfit, you can substitute a horse and alter any references to Humpy the camel)
	Run time	Approximately 120 minutes (not including the interval) and assuming that you use the full number of suggested songs and music pieces. But obviously the runtime is very dependent on your own production.
	Music	All of Limelight Scripts own titles come with a full, suggested songs and music cues list.
	Style	Comedy, adventure, drama, love interst and a slapstick wallpapering scene,
	Synopsis	Sinbad returns home from his latest seafaring adventure, and his poor mother is expecting to help keep her from being evicted by her landlord and is gobsmacked when Sinbad informs her that he has swopped all the treasure he had collected for a 'magic sword'. Sinbad can't show them any magic and his mother resigns herself to the fact that she will be evicted from her home. However Sinbad is convinced that the 'magic sword' will eventually lead him to untold wealth. In order to placate his mother, Sinbad goes to the bazaar to buy her a present. There he meets the Princess Yasmin and they fall in love. But the palace Vizier has designs on the princess and her father's throne and frames Sinbad for 'stealing a jewel from the princesses palanquin. Sinbad escapes capture and sets off to the Island of Loadsawonga, unaware that Yasmin and her handmaiden, plus his mother and brother have secretly joined the ship. On the Island they meet a devious native High Priest who has convinced the Islanders that a cave houses a terrible dragon that must be appeased by daily offerings of gold and jewels. The dragon dosen't exist, and the High Priest intends to take the gold for himself and escape to South America. The Vizier follows Sinbad to the Island, and the outcome is not what either he or the High Priest had hoped for.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.


Sleeping Beauty (ver 1)	Author	Limelight Scripts
	Roles	14 principals 4 minor speaking parts plus a chorus.
	Run time	Approximately 120 minutes (not including the interval) and assuming that you use the full number of suggested songs and music pieces. But obviously the runtime is very dependent on your own production.
	Music	All of Limelight Scripts own titles come with a full, suggested songs and music cues list.
	Style	The traditional story with some added twists, involving a strong dame, village idiot, evil witch, comic villains, slapstick, and audience participation in a running gag.
	Synopsis	Dame Thyme's family has hit on hard times, and she and her son Justin have been surviving on a diet of beetroot for months. Justin is sent off to the village to pawn his mother’s wedding ring, and there he meets Princess Nightingale the beautiful daughter of the toffee nosed king Rolo. Who is masquerading as a villager in order to escape the attentions of the evil witch Zendora. Later the action heats up with the preparations for the royal ball, and we meet the feuding royal cooks Salt and Pepper. Who play out a vigorous slapstick kitchen scene with comic villains Sage and Onion, in a hilarious send up of the `Can't cook won't cook' TV programme refereed by the foppish royal Valet. This panto has plenty of comedy, and great scope for audience participation. Plus a village idiot who wanders through scenes for no apparent reason carrying an ever present cardboard box, the contents of which keeps everyone guessing and involves the audience in the `What's in the box Walter' routine. And not forgetting the climax when Dame Thyme’s dark secret is finally revealed.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.


Sleeping Beauty (ver 2)	Author	Bob Marden
	Roles	12 principals plus a chorus.
	Run time	Approximately 120 minutes (not including the interval) and assuming that you use the full number of suggested songs and music pieces. But obviously the runtime is very dependent on your own production.
	Music	Songs suggested throughout the script.
	Style	Traditional panto, with slapstick, comedy and magic.
	Synopsis	Fun and frolics in this version of Sleeping Beauty, with hobgoblins, and a typical over the top Dame character.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.


Sleeping Beauty (ver 3)	Author	Graham J. Evans
	Roles	15 principals, plus several minor roles and a chorust.
	Run time	Approximately 100 minutes (not including the interval) and assuming that you use the full number of suggested songs and music pieces. But obviously the runtime is very dependent on your own production.
	Music	Suggested throughout the script.
	Style	Traditional panto.
	Synopsis	A very funny version of the Sleeping Beauty story.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.


Sleeping Beauty (ver 4)	Author	Ian Bettridge
	Roles	12 principals, plus chorus and a Ghost.
	Run time	Approximately 100 minutes (not including the interval) and assuming that you use the full number of suggested songs and music pieces. But obviously the runtime is very dependent on your own production.
	Music	Musical numbers placement suggested throughout the script - songs left to your own choice.
	Style	Traditional panto.
	Synopsis	Another excellent version of the Sleeping Beauty story.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.