Carl Rosa Opera Company - The Pirates of Penzance
- By:
- Gilbert and Sullivan
- Composer:
- Conductor: Martin Handley
- Management:
- Carl Rosa Opera Company
- Cast:
- Rebecca Knight, Barry Clark, Peter Knapp, Michael Kerry, Darren Fox, Bruce Graham, Victoria Ward, Lesley Cox, Jacqueline Tate, Marilyn Cutts
- Director:
- Peter Mulloy, who also designs
- Lighting:
- Emma Banwell
- Choreography:
- Steve Elias
Production information can change over the run of the show.
Peter Mulloy's authentic revival of the 1880 version, incorporating the original finale to the Broadway premiere of December 1879, will not only please G&S aficionados but also delight theatregoers with its musicality, brilliant wit and sumptuous 'high Victorian' settings. And as Mulloy is proud to point out, his touring show is both 'un-miked and unfunded.'.. October 18, 2006
This lively presentation of the much-loved 127-year-old G&S classic is updated to the Victorian nineties and with new period costumes and settings, has fresh appeal. No time-honoured routines and theatre museum groupings but no irritating gimmickry either. Peter Mulloy's designs and direction of this 1880 version, plus earlier additions, project a sense of light-hearted romp throughout, as the tortuous Gilbertian plot of orphaned pirates, slow-witted Cornish constabulary and the legal problems of being born on February 29, is played out... October 6, 2006
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