The Pirates of Penzance
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 7, 2005
Closed Jan 23, 2005
Opened Jan 7, 2005
Closed Jan 23, 2005
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America's foremost Gilbert & Sullivan repertory ensemble, the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players, presents acclaimed Broadway and television star Hal Linden in the gala 125th anniversary production of The Pirates of Penzance. Set on the rocky coast of Cornwall, England, the show centers on a band of tenderhearted pirates celebrating the coming of age of their apprentice, Frederic. Although Frederic's apprenticing to pirates was the mistake of his nurse maid Ruth, he has dutifully served, but he now announces his plan to devote his life to the extermination of piracy. The naïve young man meets a group of beautiful girls, their father, the delightfully dotty Major General Stanley (Hal Linden), and enlists the help of some bumbling and diffident policemen. But Ruth and the Pirate King tell Frederic that his apprentice papers state that he won't be of age until his 21st birthday, which won't occur until the distant date of 1940 because Frederic was born in leap year on the 29th of February.
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Albert Bergeret is credited as stage director (and musical director and conductor) of the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players production of The Pirates of Penzance, but one would swear that there's a personnel change during the intermission. For most of the first act, the staging and playing of this G&S classic are dutiful and mostly by the numbers. The pirate crew swaggers about on Lou Anne Gilleland's papier-mâchè-looking set without much freshness or individuality. Angela Smith as Ruth, the piratical maid-of-all-work, rolls her Rs ostentatiously and hits the right contralto notes without ever making the part truly her own. Ross David Crutchlow as the Pirate King does nothing [...]