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Cinderella pantomime script

CINDERELLA PANTOMIME SCRIPT (Version 1)

This award-winning Cinderella pantomime script packs in big laughs from the very start.

 

Unique and crazy routines abound, including ‘The Frontal Enhancer’ in the Ugly Sisters’ bedroom and the friskily amorous tree in the Wild Wood. (Excerpt below!)

 

There’s pathos too, as Buttons’ doomed love for Cinderella remains touching and sincere.

 

The Chorus are kept extremely busy – when they’re not fending off the Ugly Sisters, of course, who are a riot from start to finish in this hilarious Cinderella pantomime script!

 

All this and a loveable pantomime (race) horse, Devon Dumpling - but customise his name to help give your panto a real local feel!

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​CAST SIZE: 11 Characters, plus 2-person Pantomime Horse, plus Chorus.

RUN TIME: 2 hrs plus Interval

"Thank you, thank you, thank you! Your script is brilliant, the audience loved it. So many compliments on the writing! I knew it was a winner, just pleased the audience thought so too."

Karen Dawson, The Secret Panto Society, Pibrac, France

CINDERELLA PANTO SCRIPT (VERSION 1) EXCERPT

The Ugly Sisters are lost and have been chased by huge spiders in the Wood. Fortunately, the have now found Buttons, who has a large map. There is a simple cut-out tree piece on stage…

BUTTONS:

OK, OK, it’s not so dark now and the horrible spiders won’t want to come out. Now, just let go of me and grab hold of the map. Then we can check the route.

BERYL:

(Relinquishing his arm and taking hold of the map.) Alright then, but I never realised you had such big arm muscles.

CHERYL:

(Also relinquishing his arm and taking hold of the other side of the map.) Me neither, like a gorilla!

BUTTONS:

Thank you. Now, we’re here.

BOTH:

Here.

BUTTONS:

And we need to follow the permitted public path.

BOTH:

The permitted public path!

BUTTONS:

Which is the pretty primrose path, past the pair of prickly pines, the plain planes and the pleasing poplars.

BERYL:

What if we go the other way instead?

BUTTONS:

No, we need to take the permitted public path.

CHERYL:

The pretty primrose path!

BUTTONS:

Exactly. The pretty primrose path, past the pair of prickly pines, the plain planes –

ALL:

And the pleasing poplars!

BERYL:

And what then?

BUTTONS:

​We pass by the precipice peering into the perilous pit and peel off at the plishy plashy puddles by the Piddle.

BERYL:

BUTTONS:

CHERYL:

BUTTONS:

The Piddle?

It’s a river.

You’ve lost me.

Look, it’s simple.

 

(Whilst BUTTONS speaks the R arm (bough) of the tree, flexes and strokes CHERYL’S shoulder. She preens delightedly.)

 

The permitted public path is the pretty primrose path, past the pair of prickly pines, the plain planes and the pleasing poplars – passing by the precipice peering into the perilous pit and peeling off at the plishy plashy puddles by the Piddle!

CHERYL:

Oh, Buttons – you naughty, naughty boy!

BUTTONS:

Eh?

BERYL:

Can you just take us through that again?

BUTTONS:

Very well.

 

(The L arm of the tree flexes and strokes BERYL’S shoulder. She purrs delightedly into BUTTONS’ face.)

 

The permitted public path is the pretty primrose path, past the pair of prickly pines, the plain planes and the pleasing poplars – passing by the precipice peering into the perilous pit - what are you doing?

BERYL:

BUTTONS:

CHERYL:

BERYL:

BUTTONS:

BERYL:

Oh, Buttons – you’re almost too naughty to mention!

Look, can we please just concentrate on the map!

(Happily) Yes, of course.

Anything!

Thank you.

Lover boy!

 

(R arm of tree flexes and walks its fingers across CHERYL’S shoulder. She nestles into what she believes to be BUTTON’S arm.)

BUTTONS:

CHERYL:

BUTTONS:

CHERYL:

I’ve forgotten where we are now.

(throatily) Just there.

Right.

By the pretty, pretty primroses. Oh, Buttons! (She puts her head on his shoulder.)

BUTTONS:

CHERYL:

BUTTONS:

Stop it, will you!

Don’t worry, Buttons, a nod’s as good as a wink to me!

Look, both of you. Let’s just concentrate. We’re all clear that this is the permitted public path!

 

(L arm flexes and walks its fingers along BERYL’S shoulder. Her purring becomes demented.)

 

It’s the pretty primrose path, past the pair of –

BERYL:

Oh, Buttons, you ANIMAL! Is there a permitted private path?!

LIST OF CHARACTERS

  • ​Fairy Godmother

  • Dandini (The Prince’s Valet)

  • Prince Charming (Principal Boy)

  • Buttons (Loveable and great comedy character)

  • Baron Hardup (Cinderella’s father)

  • Dumpling (An unlikely racehorse)

  • Lady Devilia Hardup (The Wicked Stepmother)

  • Cinderella (Principal Girl)

  • Snitch (Broker’s Man)

  • Snatch (Broker’s Man)

  • Cheryl (Ugly sister)

  • Beryl (Ugly sister)

  • Major Domo

  • Chorus of Villagers, Animals, Palace Guests, Spiders Etc.
     

cinderella pantomime script
Cinderella Version 1 Panto Script, Ben Crocker Pantomimes

LIST OF SCENES

ACT 1
PROLOGUE
SCENE 1.     The Village 
SCENE 2.     The Hall at Hardup Hall
SCENE 3.      Beryl and Cheryl’s Bedroom
SCENE 4.     Outside the Palace
SCENE 5.     The Kitchen at Hardup Hall

ACT 2
SCENE 6.     The Palace Ballroom
SCENE 7.     The Wild Wood
SCENE 8.     Still in the Wild Wood
SCENE. 9.     The Kitchen at Hardup Hall
SCENE 10.     Song Time 
SCENE 11.    The Royal Wedding

 

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