The Pirates of Penzance Revival 2006 - Articles Page 7

Ages: 8+
Opened: November 1, 2006
Closing: December 17, 2006

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No Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera boasts as many walk-away tunes as The Pirates of Penzance, the only collaboration of the pair to premiere on Broadway, and not in England. Building on the success of the previous year’s H.M.S. Pinafore, but trading—as their principal “serious” focus—the rigors of naval discipline for the obligations of duty, G&S manage to burlesque their normal share of popular institutions, including the army, the police, and operatic sopranos. Pirate apprentice Frederic, at age 21, has faithfully served out his indentures and, replete with a sense of duty, joins the police force, determined to exterminate his old mates. He falls in love with Mabel, the first girl he sees, but the daughter of Major-General Stanley, who himself is the target of a pirate revenge plot. Plans go awry when it is revealed that, thanks to a leap-day birth, Frederic is really only five and one-quarter years old. The engaging musical score includes some of the catchiest music in the G&S canon: Mabel’s pyrotechnic “Poor, wandering one;” the tongue-twisting patter song “I am the very model of a modern major-general;” “A policeman’s lot;” “Climbing over rocky mountain”—a survivor from Thespis, G&S’s lost first stage work; and “With catlike tread,” which, more than a quarter-century later, was given new words as “Hail, hail, the gang’s all here.” At The Egyptian Theatre.


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by BWW News Desk - Jul 22, 2014


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by BWW News Desk - Jun 21, 2014


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by Nicole Rosky - Apr 28, 2014


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by BWW News Desk - Jan 7, 2014


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by Tyler Peterson - Jun 20, 2013


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1900   Broadway Unknown
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1933   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1934   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1934   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1935   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1936   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1936   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1939   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1940   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1942   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1944   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1946   Broadway Unknown
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1948   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1949   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1951   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1952   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1955   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1961   Off-Broadway Off-Broadway Revival
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1976   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1977   Off-Broadway Off-Broadway Revival
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1979   Off-Broadway LOOM Revival
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1981   Broadway Broadway Transfer
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1981   US Tour National Tour
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1985   Off-Off-Broadway Off-Off-Broadway Revival
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2006   Off-Broadway Off-Broadway Revival
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