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28th Festival Season - 2007

The Pirates of Penzance

Show Photographs
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
ConductorJ. Lynn Thompson
DirectorFrederick Reeder
ChoreographerCarol Hageman
Set DesignerKirk Domer
Costume DesignerCharlene Gross
Lighting DesignerShannon Schweitzer
Assistant ConductorNathaniel Motta
Cast
Major-General StanleyFrederick Reeder
The Pirate KingBoyd Mackus
Gary Moss
Samuel, His LieutenantDavid Kelleher-Flight
Frederic, The Pirate ApprenticeTodd Strange
Josh Kohl
Sergeant of PolicePaul Hindemith
Major-General Stanley’s Daughters
MabelSarah Asmar
Amanda Kingston
EdithCecily Ellis
KateLaura Riggs
IsabelKathryn McCreary
 
Ruth, Pirate Maid-of-all-workStina Eberhardt
Carissa Kett