The Pirates of Penzance
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Dec 28, 2011
Closed Jan 1, 2012
Opened Dec 28, 2011
Closed Jan 1, 2012
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Running Time:
2hr. 30min.
2hr. 30min.
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players present The Pirates of Penzance.
At least they're employed.
Set sail with this classic comedy that boasts one of the most famous patter songs in musical theatre history. On the coast of Cornwall, a band of tenderhearted pirates celebrates the coming of age of Frederic, who was mistakenly apprenticed to the pirates until his 21st birthday. Now, Frederic has vowed to devote his life to the extermination of piracy - until a ludicrous leap year snag threatens to keep him apprenticed to the pirates for life! Throw in a bevy of beauties, a brash Pirate King, the delightfully stuffy Major-General Stanley and you've got what The New York Times calls "an endearing production with high musical standards and spirited performances."
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Whenever a Gilbert and Sullivan work arrives, it seems it immediately becomes a candidate for best musical revival of the year. That's certainly the case with the lively New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players production of The Pirates of Penzance, or the Slave of Duty, now playing an all-too-brief run at Symphony Space.
At the core of the appeal are, of course, Sir Arthur Sullivan's music and William S. Gilbert's lyrics and libretto, which include the seminal patter songs the pair confected, as well as the show's heart-stopping ballads.
But not just any treatment of the beloved work about a group of orphaned pirates tamed by the arrival of ten maidens and their fast-singing maj[...]