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28th Festival Season - 2007
The Pirates of Penzance
By: Gilbert and Sullivan
Premiere: Fifth Avenue Theater, New York, 31 December 1879
Because his hard-of-hearing nursemaid Ruth misunderstood his father's request that his son become an apprentice to a pilot, Frederic has spent his childhood years as apprentice to a pirate. He will soon come of age and, although he dearly loves his shipmates, finds their profession atrocious and will devote his adult life to their extermination. Although he has never seen a woman other than Ruth, he has a hard time believing that he couldn't do better with someone thirty years younger. He finds that someone in Mabel, the daughter of Major General Stanley. Just as Frederic is about to lead a mission to bring down the pirates, it is revealed that, because he was born on February 29, he is really only five years old and must remain loyal to the pirates, much to the dismay of Mabel, whose father is under siege by the pirate crew. Only when the local police request that the pirates yield in the name of Queen Victoria do we learn the true background of the swashbucklers.
The Pirates of Penzance pokes fun at the exaggerated Victorian sense of duty. It contains some of Gilbert and Sullivan's most beloved tunes, including Stanley's patter song I am the very model of a modern major-general, Mabel's mock-operatic Poor wandering one, and the pirate chorus With cat-like tread, whose melody was later used for the song Hail, hail, the gang's all here.
Production Team | |
Conductor | J. Lynn Thompson |
Director | Frederick Reeder |
Choreographer | Carol Hageman |
Set Designer | Kirk Domer |
Costume Designer | Charlene Gross |
Lighting Designer | Shannon Schweitzer |
Assistant Conductor | Nathaniel Motta |
Cast | |
Major-General Stanley | Frederick Reeder |
The Pirate King | Boyd Mackus Gary Moss |
Samuel, His Lieutenant | David Kelleher-Flight |
Frederic, The Pirate Apprentice | Todd Strange Josh Kohl |
Sergeant of Police | Paul Hindemith |
Major-General Stanley’s Daughters | |
Mabel | Sarah Asmar Amanda Kingston |
Edith | Cecily Ellis |
Kate | Laura Riggs |
Isabel | Kathryn McCreary |
Ruth, Pirate Maid-of-all-work | Stina Eberhardt Carissa Kett |