Or, The Ballad of Hamster Gulch!

Saddle your horses and load up your six-guns folks! This rootin' tootin' script is headin' on back to the Old West for a rip-roaring new pantomime adventure.

This show has all the very best of traditional pantomime, including custard pies, explosions, amazing costumes, and masses of audience participation, but with the added attraction of a brand new story and setting, way out on the prairie! From quick draws to man-eating saloon doors, and from bandidos to baked beans, not a Wild West cliché is omitted, and no opportunity missed to lassoo the audience into the action!

Our tall tale relates the fiendish efforts of Badman Jake McCabe and his redskin sidekick Speaks Like Rattlesnake to set Big Chief Running Buffet on the warpath - all in order to spark off a range war, and get the indians driven onto a reservation. With Running Buffet and his people out of the way, McCabe and his mad, bad hombrés, Dopey Hobart and The Cactus Kid, can get their sticky hands on the gold buried beneath them thar ancient burial grounds of the Magwumpa Sioux.

Fortunately, McCabe's wicked plot is thwarted by an unlikely alliance of Clint Cougar of the Texas Rangers, Red Indian Maiden, Sings Like Mountain Stream, ornery ol' timer Gus Varmint, and Clint's outrageous auntie over from England - Calamity Dame!
So - if'n you got yourself a hankerin' fer a cowboy panto, then make good n'sure to take a look at this script first, y'all hear?

Cast: Principals M8 F5. Extras / Chorus: M or F 6 - 8

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Provision is made in the script for the inclusion of eight musical numbers. More musical numbers could easily be incorporated.

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