Stage Director: James Mills
Music Director: David Weiller
Choreographer: Caitlin Belcik
Stage Manager: Miranda Van Mooy
Thursday Matinee performance led by Associate Conductor and Pianist: Lindsay Miller
Music Director: David Weiller
Choreographer: Caitlin Belcik
Stage Manager: Miranda Van Mooy
Thursday Matinee performance led by Associate Conductor and Pianist: Lindsay Miller
Cast
Major-General Stanley.......................Jeffrey Laughrun
The Pirate King.......................................Brandon Roth
Samuel, His Lieutenant...............................Sam Dubin
Frederic, The Pirate Apprentice.......Orlando Montalvo
Sergeant of Police......................................Alex Poletti
Mabel, General Stanley's Ward.......Sophie Thompson
Edith, General Stanley's Ward.......Gillian Weatherford
Kate, General Stanley's Ward..........Samantha Altman
Isabel, General Stanley's Ward..............Emily Holguin
Ruth, Pirate Maid-of-all-work.................Sabrina Brush
Chorus of Pirates and Police: Ian C. Weber*, Trent Mosty, Teddy Ladley
Chorus of General Stanley's Wards: Carlyn Jade Barenholtz*, Erin Burtchaell, Grace Margaret Craig
*Dance Captains
The Pirate King.......................................Brandon Roth
Samuel, His Lieutenant...............................Sam Dubin
Frederic, The Pirate Apprentice.......Orlando Montalvo
Sergeant of Police......................................Alex Poletti
Mabel, General Stanley's Ward.......Sophie Thompson
Edith, General Stanley's Ward.......Gillian Weatherford
Kate, General Stanley's Ward..........Samantha Altman
Isabel, General Stanley's Ward..............Emily Holguin
Ruth, Pirate Maid-of-all-work.................Sabrina Brush
Chorus of Pirates and Police: Ian C. Weber*, Trent Mosty, Teddy Ladley
Chorus of General Stanley's Wards: Carlyn Jade Barenholtz*, Erin Burtchaell, Grace Margaret Craig
*Dance Captains
Synopsis
Just as H.M.S Pinafore satirized the British Navy, The Pirates of Penzance, its companion piece satirizes the British Army. In it we see the sense of duty, that virtue par excellence of the military, running amuck and attaching itself blindly and uncritically to every situation which confronts the characters.
The first “slave of duty” to be met is Frederic, a young pirate belonging to the dreaded Penzance band which plies its nefarious trade off the coast of Cornwall. Though he shows promise in his profession, Frederic is a reluctant pirate and remains one only because when he was a child, his nurse Ruth, mistaking “pirate” for “pilot”, apprenticed him to the band and not to an honest sea pilot as had been intended. The other pirates are also inhibited by their sense of duty. They must be utterly ruthless in order to make piracy pay, but their sense of duty forces them to spare orphans and they encounter an increasingly high percentage of ships manned exclusively by orphans.
Into this lair of tender-hearted cut-throats wander Major-General Stanley’s daughters, picnic bound. The pirates kidnap them, but quickly release them when the Major-General, arriving on the scene, falsely claims to be an orphan himself. One daughter, Mabel, has however fallen deeply in love with Frederic and hopes to reform his piratical ways, but on learning of his indentures to a pirate, admires him more because his sense of duty sends him back to piracy. Her duty, however, is to effect his capture and to that end she enlists the aid of the Penzance constabulary and its rather reluctant Sergeant. They are easily bested in combat with the pirates and are saved only because the sergeant convinces the scoundrel's to, “yield in Queen Victoria’s name”. Fortunately for the pirates, Ruth at this point makes the revelation that they were all born noblemen. Whereupon the police, equally mindful of duty, give them their liberty and Major-General Stanley gives them his daughters (“for with all their faults they love their House of Peers”), and all is at last well on the rocky coast of Cornwall.
The first “slave of duty” to be met is Frederic, a young pirate belonging to the dreaded Penzance band which plies its nefarious trade off the coast of Cornwall. Though he shows promise in his profession, Frederic is a reluctant pirate and remains one only because when he was a child, his nurse Ruth, mistaking “pirate” for “pilot”, apprenticed him to the band and not to an honest sea pilot as had been intended. The other pirates are also inhibited by their sense of duty. They must be utterly ruthless in order to make piracy pay, but their sense of duty forces them to spare orphans and they encounter an increasingly high percentage of ships manned exclusively by orphans.
Into this lair of tender-hearted cut-throats wander Major-General Stanley’s daughters, picnic bound. The pirates kidnap them, but quickly release them when the Major-General, arriving on the scene, falsely claims to be an orphan himself. One daughter, Mabel, has however fallen deeply in love with Frederic and hopes to reform his piratical ways, but on learning of his indentures to a pirate, admires him more because his sense of duty sends him back to piracy. Her duty, however, is to effect his capture and to that end she enlists the aid of the Penzance constabulary and its rather reluctant Sergeant. They are easily bested in combat with the pirates and are saved only because the sergeant convinces the scoundrel's to, “yield in Queen Victoria’s name”. Fortunately for the pirates, Ruth at this point makes the revelation that they were all born noblemen. Whereupon the police, equally mindful of duty, give them their liberty and Major-General Stanley gives them his daughters (“for with all their faults they love their House of Peers”), and all is at last well on the rocky coast of Cornwall.
