The Pirates of Penzance
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Opened Mar 7, 2007
Closed Mar 31, 2007

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

This traditional production presents The Pirates of Penzance in all its swashbuckling glory. With direction by Lillian Groag (Girl of the Golden West) and picture-perfect period costumes and sets, this Gilbert & Sullivan favorite both satirizes and pays homage to the Victorian era and 19th-century grand opera. The show features Marc Kudisch as the Pirate King.

Pirates lavishes musical riches upon inspired silliness, boasting the most famous patter song in all of G&S: "I am the very model of a modern Major General." Also included in the show are parodies of French waltzes, Italian opera scenas, and even Verdi's famous "Anvil Chorus."

Do to variations in the weekly performance schedule, please visit New York City Opera for a complete listing of show dates and times.

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WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

Should one read Lillian Groag's director's note before the curtain rises on the New York City Opera's new production of The Pirates of Penzance -- in which she states, "I see the whimsical wit and outrageous fun of Gilbert and Sullivan as 'book-ended' by the humor of Lewis Carroll and that of Monty Python" -- one may actually be prepared for the cardboard cutout of an eye patch-wearing Alice or the oversized, Python-like cardboard representation of British literary figures that pop up here and there on the stage of the New York State Theater.

But nothing in Groag's four-paragraph treatise can fully prepare the audience or adequately explain the mind-numbing amount of excessively jokey and [...]

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Reviewed by Brian Scott Lipton on Mar 8, 2007