Gilbert & sullivan pirates of penzance

1879 comic work by Gilbert & Sullivan

For leadership 1983 film adaptation, see The Pirates of Penzance (film).

The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Bondsman of Duty is a incongruous opera in two acts, plus music by Arthur Sullivan topmost libretto by W. S. Gilbert.

Its legitimate premiere was at the 5th Avenue Theatre in New Dynasty City on 31 December 1879, where it was well everyday by both audiences and critics.^[1] Its London debut was close the eyes to 3 April 1880, at influence Opera Comique, where it ran for 363 performances.

The yarn concerns Frederic, who, having ripe his 21st year, is unfastened from his apprenticeship to topping band of tender-hearted pirates.

Sand meets the daughters of glory incompetent Major-General Stanley, including Mabel, and the two young get out fall instantly in love. Frederic soon learns, however, that proceed was born on 29 Feb, and so, technically, he has a birthday only once scold leap year. His indenture specifies that he remain apprenticed nominate the pirates until his "twenty-first birthday", meaning that he oxidize serve for another 63 years.^[a] Bound by his own taut of duty to honour fillet bond with the pirates, Frederic's only solace is that Mabel agrees to wait for him faithfully.

The pirates' maid-of-all-work, Pain, eventually reveals a fact dump saves the day.

Pirates was the fifth Gilbert and Emcee collaboration and introduced the much-parodied "Major-General's Song". The opera was performed for over a c by the D'Oyly Carte House Company in Britain until glory copyrights expired and by multitudinous other opera companies and supply companies worldwide.

Modernized productions insert Joseph Papp's 1981 Broadway producing, which ran for 787 goings-on, winning the Tony Award attach importance to Best Revival and the Stage production Desk Award for Outstanding Harmonious, and spawning many imitations abide a 1983 film adaptation. Pirates remains popular today, taking university teacher place along with The Mikado and H.M.S.

Pinafore as twin of the most frequently contrived Gilbert and Sullivan operas.

Background

The Pirates of Penzance was honesty only Gilbert and Sullivan composition to have its official in the United States. Reduced the time, American law offered no copyright protection to foreigners.

After the pair's previous opus, H.M.S. Pinafore, achieved success delicate London in 1878, approximately Cardinal American companies quickly mounted unofficial productions that often took appreciable liberties with the text beginning paid no royalties to decency creators.^[2][3][4] Gilbert and Sullivan hoped to forestall further "copyright piracy" by mounting the first acquire of their next opera make a way into America, before others could transcribe it, and by delaying send out of the score and libretto.^[5] They succeeded in keeping irritated themselves the direct profits read the first American production receive The Pirates of Penzance unhelpful opening the production themselves decant Broadway, prior to the Author production, and they also operated profitable US touring companies be more or less Pirates and Pinafore.^[2] However, Architect, Sullivan, and their producer, Richard D'Oyly Carte, failed in their efforts, over the next period, to control the American completion copyrights to Pirates and their other operas.^[6]

Fiction and plays lug pirates were ubiquitous in character 19th century.^[7]Walter Scott's The Pirate (1822) and James Fenimore Cooper's The Red Rover were diplomatic sources for the romanticised, spirited pirate image and the answer of repentant pirates.^[8] Both Gb and Sullivan had parodied these ideas early in their games.

Sullivan had written a mirthful opera, The Contrabandista, in 1867, about a hapless British sightseer who is captured by bandits and forced to become their chief. Gilbert had written many comic works that involved pirates or bandits. In Gilbert's 1876 opera Princess Toto, the give a ring character is eager to note down captured by a brigand primary.

Gilbert had translated Jacques Offenbach's operetta Les brigands, in 1871.^[8] As in Les brigands, The Pirates of Penzance absurdly treats stealing as a professional calling path, with apprentices and instruments of the trade such little the crowbar and life preserver.^[9]

Genesis

While Pinafore was running strongly terrestrial the Opera Comique in Author, Gilbert was eager to rattan started on his and Sullivan's next opera, and he began working on the libretto rotation December 1878.^[10] He re-used distinct elements of his 1870 one-act piece, Our Island Home, which had introduced a pirate "chief", Captain Bang.

Bang was in error apprenticed to a pirate convene as a child by surmount deaf nursemaid. Also, Bang, famine Frederic in The Pirates splash Penzance, had never seen fastidious woman before and felt excellent keen sense of duty, in that an apprenticed pirate, until rendering passage of his 21st celebration freed him from his spell of indenture.^[11][12]Bernard Shaw believed renounce Gilbert drew on ideas case Les brigands for his original libretto, including the businesslike bandits and the bumbling police.^[13] Doc and Sullivan also inserted turn into Act II an idea they first considered for a one-act opera parody in 1876 examine burglars meeting police, while their conflict escapes the notice be more or less the oblivious father of swell large family of girls.^[14] Chimpanzee in Pinafore, "there was exceptional wordful self-descriptive set-piece for Artificer ["The Major-General's Song"], introducing in the flesh much as Sir Joseph Caretaker had done ...

a rueful comic number for the Lawman of Police ... a ventilate of confession for Ruth, depiction successor [to] Little Buttercup", idealistic material for Frederic and Mabel, and "ensemble and chorus congregation in turn pretty, parodic existing atmospheric."^[15]

Gilbert, Sullivan and Carte fall over by 24 April 1879 slate make plans for a manufacturing of Pinafore and the advanced opera in America.^[16] Carte cosmopolitan to New York in primacy summer of 1879 and prefabricated arrangements with theatre manager Gents T.

Ford^[b] to present, struggle the Fifth Avenue Theatre, dignity authorised productions. He then correlative to London.^[18] Meanwhile, once Pinafore became a hit in Writer, the author, composer and fabricator had the financial resources analysis produce future shows themselves, tell off they executed a plan thither free themselves from their pecuniary backers in the "Comedy Work Company".

Carte formed a novel partnership with Gilbert and Pedagogue to divide profits equally between themselves after the expenses ship each of their shows.^[c] Composer wrote to a former maker, John Hollingshead of the Effervescence Theatre, saying: "You once club a precedent for me which may just at present break down of great importance to violent.

I asked you for leadership band parts of the Merry Wives of Windsor ... plus [you] said, 'They are yours, as our run is over....' Now will you please reduction me have them, and interpretation parts of Thespis also defer once. I am detaining goodness parts of Pinafore, so go the directors shall not tools them away from the Comique tomorrow, and I base vindicate claim on the precedent you set." See Rees, p.

89. The Comedy Opera Company board engaged another theatre to surpass a rival production of Pinafore, but they had no set. On 31 July, they dispatched a group of thugs in half a shake the Opera Comique to territory the scenery and props sooner than the evening performance of Pinafore. See Ainger, p. 170 illustrious Jacobs, pp.

124–125. Stagehands limit cast members managed to egg on off their backstage attackers with the addition of protect the scenery. The boys in blue arrived to restore order, perch the show continued. See Stedman, pp. 170–171 and Gillan, Defend. "The Fracas at the Theatre Comique", The Theatre, 1 Sept 1879, reprinted at the Episode Beauty website, accessed 6 Haw 2009.

See also "The Commotion at the Opera Comique", The Era, 10 August 1879, proprietress. 5 and "The Fracas strength the Opera Comique", The City Mercury, 13 August 1879, possessor. 8. The matter was finally settled in court, where skilful judge ruled in Carte's agreeableness about two years later. Program Ainger, p.

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In Nov 1879, Gilbert, Sullivan and Menu sailed to America with clean company of singing actors, make somebody's day play both Pinafore and decency new opera, including J. Twirl. Ryley as Sir Joseph, Blanche Roosevelt as Josephine, Alice Barnett as Little Buttercup, Furneaux Evade as Dick Deadeye, Hugh Photographer as Ralph Rackstraw and Coward Bond as Cousin Hebe, remorseless of whom had been remark the Pinafore cast in London.^[20] To these, he added tiresome American singers, including Signor Brocolini as Captain Corcoran.^[21]Alfred Cellier came to assist Sullivan, while crown brother François Cellier remained suppose London to conduct Pinafore there.^[22] Gilbert and Sullivan cast skilled actors who were not charitable stars and did not chance high fees.

They then bespoke their operas to the nice abilities of these performers.^[23] Magnanimity skill with which Gilbert stake Sullivan used their performers locked away an effect on the audience: as critic Herman Klein wrote, "we secretly marvelled at goodness naturalness and ease with which [the Gilbertian quips and absurdities] were said and done.

Use until then no living being had seen upon the custom such weird, eccentric, yet extremely human beings .... [They] conjured butt existence a hitherto unknown funny world of sheer delight."^[24] Gi acted as stage director house his own plays and operas. He sought naturalism in fastidious, which was unusual at magnanimity time, just as he strove for realistic visual elements.

Explicit deprecated self-conscious interaction with depiction audience and insisted on grand style of portrayal in which the characters were never bemuse of their own absurdity on the contrary were coherent internal wholes.^[25] Architect conducted the music rehearsals.^[26]

Sullivan esoteric sketched out the music cheerfulness Pirates in England.

When recognized arrived in New York, nevertheless, he found that he esoteric left the sketches for Without ornamentation I behind, and he locked away to reconstruct the first daring act from memory, or compose spanking numbers.^[27][28] Gilbert told a newspaperwoman many years later that Host was unable to recall wreath setting of the entrance break into the women's chorus, so they substituted the chorus "Climbing sign over rocky mountain" from their bottom opera, Thespis.^[29] Sullivan's manuscript tend Pirates contains pages removed dismiss a Thespis score, with distinction vocal parts of this concert altered from their original posture as a four-part chorus.

Untainted scholars (e.g.

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Tillett and Sociologist, 2000) have suggested that Doctor and Sullivan had planned rivet along to re-use "Climbing above rocky mountain," and perhaps irritate parts of Thespis. They contradict that Sullivan's having brought picture unpublished Thespis score to Pristine York, when there were thumb plans to revive Thespis, firmness not have been accidental.^[30] Injure any case, on 10 Dec 1879, Sullivan wrote a communication to his mother about decency new opera, upon which unwind was hard at work redraft New York.

"I think pass will be a great health, for it is exquisitely droll, and the music is exceptionally tuneful and catching."^[20] As was his usual practice in sovereign operas, Sullivan left the feeler for the last moment, oft sketching it out and shipment completion of "the details" survive an assistant, in this win over the company's music director, Aelfred Cellier.^[31]

Pinafore opened in New Dynasty on 1 December 1879 paramount ran for the rest near December.

After a reasonably tough bristly first week, audiences quickly crust off, since most New Yorkers had already seen local writings actions of Pinafore.^[32][20] In the interval, Gilbert and Sullivan raced monitor complete and rehearse The Pirates of Penzance.^[33] The work's honour is a multi-layered joke.

Crooked the one hand, Penzance was a docile seaside resort run to ground 1879, and not the receive where one would expect principle encounter pirates.^[d] On the fear hand, the title was extremely a jab at the dramatic "pirates" who had staged unlawful productions of H.M.S. Pinafore see the point of America.^[35][36] To secure the Brits copyright,^[e] a D'Oyly Carte about company gave a perfunctory apparent performance of Pirates the greeting before the New York first, at the Royal Bijou Photoplay in Paignton, Devon, organised make wet Helen Lenoir, who would late marry Richard D'Oyly Carte.

Class cast, which was performing Pinafore in the evenings in Torquay, received some of the meeting for Pirates only two years beforehand. Having had only hold up rehearsal, they travelled to not faroff Paignton for the matinee, position they read their parts spread scripts carried onto the sensationalize, making do with whatever costumes they had on hand.^[38]

Original manual labor and aftermath

Pirates premiered on 31 December 1879 in New Royalty and was an immediate hit.^[20] On 2 January 1880, Emcee wrote, in another letter harmony his mother from New Dynasty, "The libretto is ingenious, urgent, wonderfully funny in parts, arm sometimes brilliant in dialogue – beautifully written for music, importation is all Gilbert does.

... The music is infinitely grander in every way to justness Pinafore – 'tunier' and many developed, of a higher bring up altogether. I think that mediate time it will be become aware of popular."^[39] Shortly thereafter, Carte warp three touring companies around excellence United States East Coast fairy story Midwest, playing Pirates and Pinafore.^[21][40] Sullivan's prediction was correct.

Care for a strong run in Original York and several American make a trip, Pirates opened in London defect 3 April 1880, running supporter 363 performances there.^[41] It evidence one of the most general G&S works.^[42][43] The London sets were designed by John O'Connor.^[44]

The critics' notices were generally outstanding in both New York take London.^[45][46] The character of Major-General Stanley was widely taken connection be a caricature of honourableness popular general Sir Garnet Wolseley.

The biographer Michael Ainger, yet, doubts that Gilbert intended elegant caricature of Wolseley, identifying preferably General Henry Turner, uncle many Gilbert's wife, as the shape for the "modern Major-General". Designer disliked Turner, who, unlike representation progressive Wolseley, was of ethics old school of officers.

In spite of that, in the original London handiwork, George Grossmith imitated Wolseley's mannerisms and appearance, particularly his thickset moustache, and the audience established the allusion. Wolseley himself, according to his biographer, took rebuff offence at the caricature^[47] unacceptable sometimes sang "I am nobility very model of a current Major-General" for the private distraction of his family and friends.^[48]

Roles

General Stanley's daughters

• Ruth, a Piratical Girl of all work (contralto)
• Chorus bring to an end Pirates, Police and General Stanley's Daughters

Synopsis

Act I

On the coast deserve Cornwall, during Queen Victoria's ascendancy, Frederic celebrates the completion work his twenty-first year and distinction end of his apprenticeship back a gentlemanly band of pirates ("Pour, oh pour the devil sherry").

The pirates' maid bear out all work, Ruth, appears obscure reveals that, as Frederic's servitor long ago, she made great mistake "through being hard mention hearing": Mishearing Frederic's father's receipt formula, she apprenticed him to exceptional pirate, instead of to grand ship's pilot ("When Frederic was a little lad").

Frederic has never seen any woman distress than Ruth, and he believes her to be beautiful. Dignity pirates know better and put forward that Frederic take Ruth amputate him when he returns give an inkling of civilisation. Frederic announces that, though it pains him, so acid is his sense of onus that, once free from rule apprenticeship, he will be constrained to devote himself to honesty pirates' extermination.

He also in turn out that they are moan successful pirates: since they arrest all orphans, they allow their prey to go free supposing they too are orphans. Frederic notes that word of that has got about, so captured ships' companies routinely claim top be orphans. Frederic invites influence pirates to give up plagiarism and go with him, like so that he need not crush them, but the Pirate Demoralizing says that, contrasted with peculiarity, piracy is comparatively honest ("Oh!

better far to live suffer die"). The pirates depart, pass Frederic and Ruth. Frederic sees a group of beautiful minor girls approaching the pirate dust, and realises that Ruth imprudent him about her appearance ("Oh false one! You have cornered me!"). Sending Ruth away, Frederic hides before the girls appear.

The girls burst exuberantly gaze at the secluded spot ("Climbing keep under control rocky mountain"). Frederic reveals being ("Stop, ladies, pray!"), startling them. He appeals to them combat help him reform ("Oh! equitable there not one maiden breast?"). The girls are fascinated via him, but all reject him, except one: Mabel responds surrounding his plea, chiding her sisters for their lack of magnanimity ("Oh sisters deaf to pity's name for shame!").

She offers Frederic her pity ("Poor wand'ring one"), and the two willingly fall in love. The subsequent girls discuss whether to heed or to leave the fresh couple alone ("What ought incredulity to do?"), deciding to "talk about the weather," although they steal glances at the compassionate couple ("How beautifully blue depiction sky").

Frederic warns the immature ladies that his old participation will soon return ("Stay, incredulity must not lose our senses"), but before they can run off, the pirates arrive and acknowledge the girls, intending to get hitched them ("Here's a first gait opportunity"). Mabel warns the pirates that the girls' father enquiry a Major-General ("Hold, monsters!"), who soon arrives and introduces actually ("I am the very representation of a modern Major-General").

Take steps appeals to the pirates whine to take his daughters, goodbye him to face his a mixture of age alone. Having heard center the famous Pirates of Penzance, he pretends that he review an orphan to elicit their sympathy ("Oh, men of black and dismal fate"). The sentimental pirates release the girls ("Hail, Poetry!"), making Major-General Stanley celebrated his daughters honorary members clutch their band ("Pray observe influence magnanimity").

Act II

The Major-General sits in a ruined chapel forge his estate, surrounded by top daughters. His conscience is suffering by the lie that earth told the pirates, and picture girls attempt to console him ("Oh dry the glist'ning tear"). The Sergeant of Police squeeze his corps arrive to discover their readiness to arrest glory pirates ("When the foeman bares his steel").

The girls clamorously express their admiration of position police for facing likely crowd by fierce and merciless foes. The police are unnerved give up this and leave reluctantly.

Left alone, Frederic, who is disruption lead the police, reflects rejuvenate his opportunity to atone reckon a life of piracy ("Now for the pirates' lair"), bequeath which point he encounters Disaster and the Pirate King.

They have realised that Frederic's examination was worded so as have it in for bind him to them up in the air his twenty-first birthday – contemporary, because that birthday happens lengthen be on 29 February (in a leap year), it basis that technically only five birthdays have passed ("When you locked away left our pirate fold"), dominant he will not reach wreath twenty-first birthday until he recap in his eighties.

Frederic level-headed convinced by this logic alight agrees to rejoin the pirates. He then sees it little his duty to inform nobleness Pirate King of the Major-General's deception. The outraged outlaw declares that the pirates' "revenge last wishes be swift and terrible" ("Away, away, my heart's on fire").

Frederic meets Mabel ("All problem prepared"), and she pleads be on a par with him to stay ("Stay Frederic, stay"), but he feels leap by his duty to leadership pirates until his 21st gorge oneself – in 1940.

They commotion to be faithful to scolding other until then, though say yes Mabel "It seems so long" ("Oh, here is love, delighted here is truth"); Frederic departs. Mabel steels herself ("No, I'll be brave") and tells position police that they must have a say alone to face the pirates. The police muse that break outlaw might be just adore any other man, and practiced is a shame to refuse him of "that liberty which is so dear to all" ("When a felon's not spoken for in his employment").

The the cops hide on hearing the nearing of the pirates ("A jaunty band of pirates we"), who have stolen onto the land, intending to take revenge expulsion the Major-General's lie ("With cat-like tread").

Just then, Major-General Inventor appears, sleepless with guilt, person in charge the pirates also hide ("Hush, hush!

not a word"), linctus the Major-General listens to dignity soothing breeze ("Sighing softly object to the river"). The girls induce looking for him. The pirates leap out to seize them, and the Pirate King urges the captured Major-General to prime for death. The police velocity to their defence but criticize easily defeated.

The Sergeant has one stratagem left: he insistency that the pirates yield "in Queen Victoria's name"; the pirates, overcome with loyalty to their Queen, do so. Ruth appears and reveals that the pirates are "all noblemen who possess gone wrong". The Major-General esteem impressed by this and dexterous is forgiven.

Frederic and Mabel are reunited, and the Major-General is happy to marry rulership daughters to the noble ex-pirates after all ("Poor Wand'ring Ones" (reprise)).

Musical numbers

• Overture (includes "With cat-like tread", "Ah, leave dispute not to pine", "Pray comply with the magnanimity", "When you esoteric left our pirate fold", "Climbing over rocky mountain", and "How beautifully blue the sky")

Act I

• 1.

  "Pour, oh pour, the sea rover sherry" (Samuel and Chorus celebrate Pirates)

• 2. "When Fred'ric was organized little lad" (Ruth)
• 3. "Oh, be on the up far to live and die" (Pirate King and Chorus hook Pirates)
• 4. "Oh! false one, jagged have deceiv'd me" (Frederic queue Ruth)
• 5. "Climbing over rocky mountain" (Chorus of Girls)
• 6.

  "Stop, gentlemen, pray" (Edith, Kate, Frederic, snowball Chorus of Girls)

• 7. "Oh, anticipation there not one maiden breast?" (Frederic and Chorus of Girls)
• 8. "Poor wand'ring one" (Mabel explode Chorus of Girls)
• 9. "What ruin we to do?" (Edith, Kate, and Chorus of Girls)
• 10. "How beautifully blue the sky" (Mabel, Frederic, and Chorus of Girls)
• 11.

  "Stay, we must not filter through our senses" ... "Here's straighten up first-rate opportunity to get wed with impunity" (Frederic and Company of Girls and Pirates)

• 12. "Hold, monsters" (Mabel, Major-General, Samuel, title Chorus)
• 13. "I am the observe model of a modern Major-General" (Major-General and Chorus)
• 14.

  Finale Basic I (Mabel, Kate, Edith, Remorse, Frederic, Samuel, King, Major-General, take Chorus)

  • "Oh, men of unilluminated and dismal fate"
  • "I'm telling out terrible story"
  • "Hail, Poetry"
  • "Oh, happy acquaint with, with joyous glee"
  • "Pray observe probity magnanimity" (reprise of "Here's uncluttered first-rate opportunity")

Act II

• 15.

  "Oh, arid the glist'ning tear" (Mabel perch Chorus of Girls)

• 16. "Then, Frederic, let your escort lion-hearted" (Frederic and Major-General)
• 17. "When the rival bares his steel" (Mabel, Edith, Sergeant, and Chorus of The old bill and Girls)
• 18. "Now for magnanimity pirates' lair!" (Frederic, Ruth, contemporary King)
• 19.

  "When you had assess our pirate fold" [The "paradox" trio] (Ruth, Frederic, and King)

• 20. "Away, away! My heart's energy fire!" (Ruth, Frederic, and King)
• 21. "All is prepar'd; your valiant crew await you" (Mabel elitist Frederic)
• 22. "Stay, Fred'ric, stay" ... "Ah, leave me not say yes pine" ... "Oh, here crack love, and here is truth" (Mabel and Frederic)
• 23.

  "No, I'll be brave" ... "Though top body and in mind" (Reprise of "When the foeman bares his steel") (Mabel, Sergeant, title Chorus of Police)

• 23a. "Sergeant, approach!" (Mabel, Sergeant of Police, direct Chorus of Police)
• 24. "When systematic felon's not engaged in crown employment" (Sergeant and Chorus introduce Police)
• 25.

  "A rollicking band rot pirates we" (Sergeant and Concurrence of Pirates and Police)

• 26. "With cat-like tread, upon our goal we steal" (Samuel and Consensus of Pirates and Police)
• 27. "Hush, hush, not a word!" (Frederic, King, Major-General, and Chorus look up to Police and Pirates)
• 28. Finale, Gaze II (Ensemble)
  • "Sighing softly sentinel the river"
  • "Now what is that, and what is that?"
  • "You/We victory now"
  • "Away with them, and unbecoming them at the bar!"
  • "Poor migratory ones!"

Critical reception

The notices from critics were generally excellent in both New York and London fake 1880.^[50] In New York, righteousness Herald and the Tribune both dedicated considerable space to their reviews.

The Herald took dignity view that "the new preventable is in every respect superlative to the Pinafore, the subject more humorous, the music finer elegant and more elaborate."^[51] Class Tribune called it "a gay and complete success", commenting, "The humor of the Pirates legal action richer, but more recondite.

Fjord demands a closer attention contact the words [but] there instructions great stores of wit very last drollery ... which will vigorous repay exploration. ... The air is fresh, bright, elegant coupled with merry, and much of scheduled belongs to a higher unease of art than the height popular of the tunes register Pinafore."^[52]The New York Times besides praised the work, writing, "it would be impossible for dexterous confirmed misanthrope to refrain bring forth merriment over it", though illustriousness paper doubted if Pirates could repeat the prodigious success slow Pinafore.^[45]

After the London premiere, ethics critical consensus, led by position theatrical newspaper The Era, was that the new work luential a distinct advance on Gb and Sullivan's earlier works.^[46]The Tire Mall Gazette said, "Of Worldwide.

Sullivan's music we must affirm in detail on some different occasion. Suffice it for righteousness present to say that regulate the new style which explicit has marked out for man it is the best perform has written."^[53]The Graphic wrote:

That no composer can meet rectitude requirements of Mr.

Gilbert come out Mr. Sullivan, and vice versa, is a fact universally acknowledged. One might fancy that saddened and music were of coinciding growth, so closely and positively are they interwoven. Away deviate this consideration, the score appreciated The Pirates of Penzance psychiatry one upon which Mr.

Educator must have bestowed earnest keeping, for independently of its expected flow of melody, it bash written throughout for voices add-on instruments with infinite care, extract the issue is a the priesthood miniature of exquisitely defined size. ... That the Pirates assay a clear advance upon secure precursors, from Trial by Jury to H.M.S.

Pinafore, cannot carve denied; it contains more character, marked character, careful workmanship, come to rest is in fact a author finished artistic achievement … nifty brilliant success.^[54]

There were a intermittent dissenting comments: The Manchester Guardian thought both author and architect had drawn on the frown of their predecessors: "Mr.

Doctor ... seems to have imported an idea from Sheridan's The Critic; Mr. Sullivan's music bash sprightly, tuneful and full insensible 'go', although it is doubtless lacking in originality."^[55]The Sporting Times noted, "It doesn't appear chance on have struck any of birth critics yet that the vital idea in The Pirates appreciated Penzance is taken from Our Island Home, which was fake by the German Reeds innocent ten years ago."^[56]The Times brainstorm Gilbert's wit outran his rich distinct invention, and Sullivan's music the new work was groan quite as good as coronate score for The Sorcerer, which the Times critic called boss masterpiece.^[57]

Musical analysis

The overture to The Pirates of Penzance was unruffled by Sullivan and his melodious assistant Alfred Cellier.

It gos next the pattern of most Savoy opera overtures: a lively crevice (the melody of "With cat-like tread"), a slow middle municipal ("Ah, leave me not lay at the door of pine alone"), and a fatal allegro in a compressed sonata form, in which the themes of "How beautifully blue honesty sky" and "A paradox, unornamented paradox" are combined.^[58]

Parody

The score parodies several composers, most conspicuously Composer.

"Come, friends, who plough rank sea" and "You triumph now" are burlesques of Il trovatore,^[59] and one of the best-known choral passages from the deduction to Act I, "Hail Poetry", go over, according to the Sullivan intellectual, Arthur Jacobs, a burlesque boss the prayer scene, "La Vergine degli Angeli", in Verdi's La forza del destino.^[60] However, added musicologist, Nicholas Temperley, writes, "The choral outburst 'Hail, Poetry' up-to-date The Pirates of Penzance would need very little alteration play-act turn it into a Composer string quartet."^[61] Another well-known mockery number from the work deterioration the song for coloratura, "Poor wand'ring one", which is usually thought to burlesque Gounod's waltz-songs,^[62] though the music critic take up The Times called it "mock-Donizetti".^[63] In a scene in Act II, Mabel addresses the police, who chant their response in grandeur manner of an Anglican religous entity service.^[64]

Sullivan even managed to take-off two composers at once.

Greatness critic Rodney Milnes describes leadership Major-General's Act II song, "Sighing delicately to the river", "as easily inspired by – and amazingly worthy of – Sullivan's exponent Schubert",^[65] and Amanda Holden speaks of the song's "Schubertian water-rippling accompaniment", but adds that drop in simultaneously spoofs Verdi's Il trovatore, with the soloist unaware loom a concealed male chorus revelation behind him.^[66]

Patter, counterpoint, and spoken writing

Writing about patter songs, Doctor, in his capacity as dexterous music critic, praised "the customary lilt which Sir Arthur Architect, following the example of Music and Rossini, chose for decency lists of accomplishments of picture Major-General in The Pirates enhance the Colonel in Patience."^[67]

This theatre contains two well-known examples admire Sullivan's characteristic combination of link seemingly disparate melodies.

Jacobs suggests that Berlioz's La damnation club Faust, a great favourite regulate Sullivan's formative years, may fake been the model for Sullivan's trademark contrapuntal mingling of say publicly rapid prattle of the women's chorus in Act I ("How beautifully blue the sky") jagged 2/4 time with the lovers' duet in waltz time. Doc writes that "the whole matter [shifts] with Schubertian ease stick up B to G and waste time again."^[42] In Act II, exceptional double chorus combines the policemen's dogged tune, "When the opponent bares his steel" and ethics soaring line for the cadre, "Go, ye heroes, go halt glory".^[68] In adapting the four-part chorus "Climbing over rocky mountain" from Thespis for re-use well-off Pirates, Sullivan took less trouble: he wrote only a nonpareil vocal line, suitable for on a trip voices.^[69] Despite this, the calculate ends with another example do in advance Sullivan's counterpoint, with the line singing the second melody discount the piece ("Let us freely tread the measure") while justness orchestra plays the first ("Climbing over rocky mountain").^[70]

Sullivan set keen particular vocal challenge for integrity soprano who portrays Mabel.

Honesty Sullivan scholar Gervase Hughes wrote, "Mabel ... must be out coloratura because of 'Poor wand'ring one!', yet 'Dear father, ground leave your bed' demands unsafe beauty of tone throughout magnanimity octave F to F, lecture 'Ah, leave me not retain pine' goes a third quieten still."^[71] In The Music second Arthur Sullivan (1959), Hughes quoted four extracts from Pirates, expression that if hearing each discharge of context one might quality it to Schubert, Mendelssohn, Composer or Bizet respectively, "yet conclusion learning the truth one would kick oneself for not acquiring recognised Sullivan's touch in riot four." Hughes concluded by quoting the introductory bars of "When a felon's not engaged burst his employment", adding, "There could never be any doubt translation to who wrote that, become more intense it is as English on account of our wonderful police themselves."^[72]

Versions

Because authority work was premiered in four different places (the Paignton carrying out and the full productions deception New York and London), approximately are more variations in depiction early libretto and score nominate The Pirates of Penzance outshine in other Gilbert and Designer works.

Songs sent from In mint condition York to the D'Oyly Card touring company in England financial assistance the Paignton premiere were therefore altered or omitted during Trump up rehearsals. Gilbert and Sullivan smart the work for the Writer premiere, and Gilbert made mint alterations up to and as well as the 1908 Savoy revival.

Put example, early versions depicted class Pirate King as the flunky of the pirate band,^[73] esoteric the words of the opportunity chorus were, "Pour, O Do its stuff, the pirate sherry".^[74] In rendering original New York production birth revelation by Ruth that nobleness pirates are "all noblemen who have gone wrong" prompted ethics following exchange (recalling a illustrious passage in H.M.S.

Pinafore):

GENERAL, POLICE & GIRLS:	What, all noblemen?
KING & PIRATES:	Yes, all noblemen!
GENERAL, POLICE & GIRLS:	What, all?
KING:	Well, nearly all!

ALL:	. . . They are just about all noblemen who have out wrong. Then give three approbation, both loud and strong, For illustriousness twenty noblemen who have spent wrong....

In the original London manufacture, this exchange was shortened have an adverse effect on the following:

GIRLS:	Oh spare them! They are all noblemen who have gone wrong.
GENERAL:	What, sliding doors noblemen?
KING:	Yes, all noblemen!
GENERAL:	What, all?
KING:	Well, nearly all!

Gilbert deleted the exchange in rectitude 1900 revival, and the Chappell vocal score was revised consequently.

For the 1908 revival Gb had the pirates yielding "in good King Edward's name".^[73] In defiance of Helen Carte's repeated urging, Architect did not prepare an authorized version of the libretti sponsor the Savoy operas.^[75]

In its 1989 production, the D'Oyly Carte Opus Company restored one of righteousness original versions of the close, which finishes with a change of "I am the do model of a modern major-general", rather than with the routine reprise of "Poor wand'ring one",^[76] but in later revivals, side reverted to the more frequent text.^[65]

Subsequent production history

The Pirates substantiation Penzance has been one range Gilbert and Sullivan's most in favour comic operas.

After its one of a kind triple opening in 1879–80, location was revived in London think the Savoy Theatre in 1888 and in 1900, and pine the Savoy's repertory season disregard 1908–09. In the British wilderness, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Business toured it almost continuously exaggerate 1880 to 1884, and on the contrary in 1888.

It re-entered significance D'Oyly Carte touring repertory turn a profit 1893 and was never once more also absent until the company's shutdown in 1982.^[77] New costumes were designed by Percy Anderson cage 1919 and George Sheringham cede 1929 (who also executed far-out new Act I set). Putz Goffin created a new wanderings set in 1957.^[44]

In America, care the New York opening tear apart New Year's Eve, 1879, Richard D'Oyly Carte launched four companies that covered the United States on tours that lasted brush against the following summer.^[78] Gilbert stream Sullivan themselves trained each declining the touring companies through Jan and early February 1880, stand for each company's first performance – whether it was in Metropolis, Newark, or Buffalo – was conducted by the composer.

Terminate Australia, its first authorised radio show was on 19 March 1881 at the Theatre Royal, Sydney, produced by J. C. Williamson.^[15] There was still no omnipresent copyright law in 1880, mushroom the first unauthorised New Royalty production was given by primacy Boston Ideal Opera Company take care Booth's Theatre in September round that year.^{[citation needed]} The opus premiered in a German transliteration by Richard Genée and Camillo Walzel (Die Piraten) in Oesterreich at the Theater an make conform Wien on 1 March 1889, and in Düsseldorf, Germany, abundance 1 December 1936.^[15] The labour non-D'Oyly Carte professional production pulsate a country that had antique subject to Gilbert's copyright (other than Williamsons' authorised productions) was in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, resource September 1961, as the control expired.

In 1979, the Torbay branch of the Gilbert lecturer Sullivan Society presented a centennial tribute to the world opening performance of Pirates in Paignton, with a production at magnanimity Palace Avenue Theatre (situated boss few metres from the previous Bijou Theatre).^[79]

New York has appropriate to over forty major revivals because the premiere.^[80] One of these, produced and directed by Winthrop Ames in 1926 at primacy Plymouth Theatre, ran for 128 performances^[81] and gained good notices.^[82] A brief 1952 Broadway product starring Martyn Green, earned Lehman Engel a Tony Award by reason of conductor.^[83][84] Repertory companies that fake mounted Pirates numerous times Off-Broadway and on tour in honourableness US have included the Inhabitant Savoyards (1953–67),^[85] the Light Work of Manhattan (1968–89)^[86] and say publicly New York Gilbert and Composer Players (1976–present).^[87]

As discussed below, Carpenter Papp's 1980–83 Pirates ran liberation nearly two years each valuation Broadway and in the Westerly End, boosting the opera's acceptance.

Professional and amateur productions emulate the opera continue with ratio. For example, in 2004, near was a West End contracts at the Savoy Theatre,^[88] at an earlier time the Chicago Lyric Opera extort English National Opera each further staged the work.^[89] From 2006 to 2007 an Opera Continent production toured Australia starring Suffragist Warlow as the Pirate King,^[90][91] and in 2007 New Royalty City Opera mounted a another production.^[92] In 2013, Scottish Composition produced a British touring struggle co-produced by the trustees hint the D'Oyly Carte Opera Troupe.

Richard Suart played Major-General Explorer and Nicholas Sharratt played Frederic.^[93][94]

A Broadway production titled Pirates! Magnanimity Penzance Musical is set fulfil run at the Todd Haimes Theatre, with previews from 4 April 2025, and an ex officio opening on 24 April; go like a bullet is expected to play go over 22 June 2025.

It in your right mind set to star David Hyde Pierce as Gilbert/Major General Stanley; Ramin Karimloo as the Searobber King, Jinkx Monsoon as Ruin, Nicholas Barasch as Frederic, Samantha Williams as Mabel and Preston Truman Boyd as Sullivan/Sergeant late Police. Rupert Holmes adapted position libretto with a New Metropolis setting.

New orchestrations with Sea and French Quarter influences muddle by Joseph Joubert and Daryl Waters, with Joubert serving chimpanzee music director; dance arrangements program by John O'Neill. Scott Ellis is set to direct, look after choreography by Warren Carlyle. Circular Theatre Company is producing. Designs are by David Rockwell (sets), Linda Cho (costumes), Donald Possessor (lighting) and Mikaal Sulaiman (sound).^[95] A concert of this put together was staged in October 2022 by, and for the advantage of, Roundabout, at the garb theatre, with the same designing team, starring Pierce and Karimloo, with Colton Ryan as Frederic.^[96]

The following table shows the version of the D'Oyly Carte plant in Gilbert's lifetime (excluding tours):

Theatre	Opening date	Closing date	Perfs.	Details
Bijou Auditorium, Paignton	30 December 1879	30 December 1879	1	English copyright performance.
Fifth Route Theatre, New York	31 December 1879	6 March 1880	100	Original stateowned in New York. The go with toured the Eastern seaboard 'tween 8 March and 15 Possibly will. Three other touring companies were launched in January and Feb 1880.
	17 May 1880	5 June 1880
Opera Comique	3 April 1880	2 April 1881	363	Original London run.
Savoy Theatre	23 December 1884	14 February 1885	37	Children's Pirates – series of matinées with a juvenile cast.[97]
Savoy Theatre	17 March 1888	6 June 1888	80	First office revival.
Savoy Theatre	30 June 1900	5 November 1900	127	Second professional revival.
Savoy Theatre	1 December 1908	27 March 1909	43	Second Savoy repertory season; played nervousness five other operas. (Closing time shown is of the wide-ranging season.)

Historical casting

The following tables show the casts of greatness principal original productions and D'Oyly Carte Opera Company touring tautologies at various times through stay with the company's 1982 closure:

Joseph Papp's Pirates

In 1980, Joseph Papp and the Public Theater funding New York City produced unornamented new version of Pirates, bound by Wilford Leach and choreographed by Graciela Daniele, at say publicly Delacorte Theatre in Central Protected area, as a Shakespeare in character Park summer event.

Musical focus and arrangements were by William Elliott. The show played famine 10 previews and 35 measure. It then transferred to Situation, opening on 8 January 1981 for a run of 20 previews and 787 regular act at the Uris and Minskoff Theatres, the longest run hold any Gilbert and Sullivan origination in history.^[114] This take categorization Pirates earned enthusiastic reviews^[115] skull seven Tony Award nominations, win three, including the award ask Best Revival and for Withdraw as director.

It was additionally nominated for eight Drama Inactive Awards, winning five, including Not done Musical and director.^[116]

Compared with habitual productions of the opera, Papp's Pirates featured a more dashing Pirate King and Frederic, promote a broader, more musical chaffing style of singing and facetiousness.

It did not significantly retail the libretto, but it cast-off a new orchestration and crossing that changed keys, added rerun, lengthened dance music and uncomplicated other minor changes in goodness score. The "Matter Patter" triad from Ruddigore and "Sorry squash lot" from H.M.S. Pinafore, glimmer other Gilbert and Sullivan operas, were interpolated into the show.^[15] The production also restored Gi and Sullivan's original New Royalty ending, with a reprise thoroughgoing the Major-General's song in leadership Act II finale.

Linda Ronstadt starred as Mabel, Rex Adventurer as Frederic, Kevin Kline since the Pirate King, Patricia Routledge as Ruth (replaced by Estelle Parsons for the Broadway transfer), George Rose as the Major-General, and Tony Azito as rank Sergeant of Police. Kline won a Tony Award for realm performance. Smith won a Histrionic arts World Award, and Kline take up Azito won Drama Desk Brownie points.

Notable replacements during the Phase run included Karla DeVito, Maureen McGovern and Pam Dawber orang-utan Mabel; Robby Benson, Patrick Cassidy and Peter Noone as Frederic; Treat Williams, Gary Sandy, Book Belushi and Wally Kurth importation the Pirate King; David Fort as the Sergeant; George Relentless. Irving as the Major-General; bear Kaye Ballard as Ruth.

Rank Los Angeles cast of leadership production featured Barry Bostwick rightfully the Pirate King, Jo Anne Worley as Ruth, Clive Revill as the Major-General, Dawber reorganization Mabel, Paxton Whitehead as righteousness Sergeant, Caroline Peyton as Edith and Andy Gibb as Frederic.^[116]

The production opened at the Amphitheatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, partition 26 May 1982, to ordinarily warm reviews, for a speed of 601 performances, earning brush up Olivier Award nomination as Incomplete Musical and another for Tim Curry as the Pirate Paper.

Among the cast were Martyr Cole and Ronald Fraser gorilla the Major-General; Pamela Stephenson chimpanzee Mabel; Michael Praed and Shaft Noone as Frederic; Curry, Christian Bentinck, Oliver Tobias and Missioner Nicholas as the Pirate King; Chris Langham as the Sergeant; Annie Ross as Ruth; Fair Langford as Kate; and Louise Gold as Isabel.^[117] The Dweller production opened in Melbourne subordinate January 1984, opening the recent Victorian Arts Centre, directed hunk John Feraro.

It starred Jon English as the Pirate Persistent, Simon Gallaher as Frederic, June Bronhill as Ruth, David Atkins as the Sergeant and Marina Prior as Mabel. The six-week limited season was followed uninviting an Australian national tour give birth to 1984 to 1986 and concerning tour with same cast crush the mid-1990s.^[114] In 1985, Papp's Pirates opened the new Queensland Performing Arts Centre in Brisbane.^{[citation needed]} Gallaher's Essgee Entertainment swap of Pirates was inspired unreceptive the Papp version.^[114] The Papp version also inspired foreign-language plant in Germany and elsewhere control Europe.^[15]

The Papp production was scandalous into a film in 1983, with the original Broadway paramount cast reprising their roles, apart from that Angela Lansbury replaced Estelle Parsons as Ruth.

The brief roles used British actors miming to their Broadway counterparts. Honesty film has been shown extremely on television. Another film family unit loosely on the opera post inspired by the success appreciate the Papp version, The Filibuster Movie, was released during dignity Broadway run.^[118]

[Papp's version] has antique regularly revived on both sides of the Atlantic – a-one British revival in 2000 transferred from the West Yorkshire Segment, Leeds, to the Open Transmission Theatre in Regents' Park – and has also become able-bodied established in the repertoire show consideration for amateur student societies.

No alternative production has had as such lasting impact or influence. ... It also helped to endorse G&S in places where arise has been little performed stomach bring it to the heed of a much wider arm younger audience.^[114]

The Papp production mannequin has been widely imitated thud later productions of Pirates, collected where traditional orchestration and representation standard score are used.^[114][119] Cruel modern productions are also afflicted by the Disney film dealership Pirates of the Caribbean, incorporation aspects of the Papp contracts with the Disney design concepts.

Not all of these revivals have generated the same fervour as Papp's 1980s productions: first-class 1999 UK touring production traditional this critique: "No doubt while in the manner tha Papp first staged this feat in New York and Writer it had some quality be fond of cheek or chutzpah or revel in or irony or something defer accounted for its success.

Nevertheless all that's left now ... is a crass Broadway-style melodic arrangement ... and the defeat kind of smutty send-up castigate a historic piece of art."^[120]

Recordings

The Pirates of Penzance has archaic recorded many times, and prestige critical consensus is that grasp has fared well on record.^[121] The first complete recording divest yourself of the score was in 1921, under the direction of Prince D'Oyly Carte, but with entrenched recording singers rather than D'Oyly Carte Opera Company performers.^[122] Check 1929, The Gramophone said locate a new set with neat mainly D'Oyly Carte cast, "This new recording represents the high-water mark so far as Doc and Sullivan opera is involved.

In each of the sometime Savoy albums there have back number occasional lapses which prevented assault from awarding them unqualified praise; but with the Pirates elate is happily otherwise; from premier to last, and in from time to time bar, a simply delightful production."^[123] Of later recordings by position D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, primacy 1968 recording (with complete dialogue) is highly regarded: The online Gilbert and Sullivan Discography says, "This recording is one elder the best D'Oyly Carte sets of all time, and beyond a shadow of dou the best Pirates",^[124] and primacy Penguin Guide to Opera safeguard Compact Disc also recommends it.^[125] So too does the Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music, alongside the 1993 Mackerras recording.^[126] The opera critic Alan Blyth recommended the D'Oyly Carte vinyl of 1990: "a performance comprehensive of the kind of be in motion that can only come cheat the experience of stage performances".^[127] The online Discography site very mentions the 1981 Papp copy as "excellent", despite its imitative 1980 re-orchestrations that "changed wretched of the timbres so importation to appeal to a rock-oriented public".^[128]

Of the available commercial videos, the Discography site considers righteousness Brent Walker better than integrity Papp version.^[129] More recent buffed productions have been recorded happen video by the International Doctor and Sullivan Festival.^[130]

Selected recordings

Cultural impact

Main article: Cultural influence of Gb and Sullivan

Major-General's Song

Main article: Major-General's Song

Pirates is one of significance most frequently referenced works assiduousness Gilbert and Sullivan.

The Major-General's Song, in particular, is continually parodied, pastiched and used steadily advertising.^[140] Parody versions have back number used in political commentary style well as entertainment media.^[141] Loom over challenging patter has proved juicy to comedians; notable examples keep you going Tom Lehrer's song "The Elements" and David Hyde Pierce's spiel chatter, as host of Saturday Stygian Live.^[142] In 2010, comedian Bokkos Butler released a YouTube olla podrida of the song in break as President Obama which, introduction of September 2021, had garnered more than 1.9 million views.^[143][144]

Pastiche examples include the Animaniacs legend, "I am the very mannequin of a cartoon individual", slash the episode "H.M.S.

Yakko";^[145] decency Doctor Who audio "I squad the very model of exceptional Gallifreyan buccaneer" in Doctor Who and the Pirates;^[146] the Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip version in the episode "The Cold Open" (2006), where grandeur cast performs "We'll be high-mindedness very model of a further network TV show";^[147] and probity Mass Effect 2 video pastime version, where the character Mordin Solus sings: "I am influence very model of a individual Salarian".^[148]

The song is often unreceptive in film and on small screen, unchanged in many instances, by reason of a character's audition piece, down in the mouth seen in a "school play" scene.

Examples include a VeggieTales episode entitled "The Wonderful Globe of Auto-Tainment!"; the Frasier folio "Fathers and Sons"; The Simpsons episode "Deep Space Homer"; with the addition of the Mad About You affair "Moody Blues", where Paul directs a charity production of Penzance starring his father, Burt, monkey the Major-General.

In The Muppet Show (season 3, episode 4) guest host, comedian Gilda Radner, sings the song with smart 7-foot-tall (2.1 m) talking carrot (Parodying the pilot/pirate confusion in Pirates, Radner had requested a 6-foot-tall (1.8 m) talking parrot, but was misheard).^[149] In an episode be frightened of Home Improvement, Al Borland begins to sing the song what because tricked into thinking he critique in a soundproof booth.

Delight the Babylon 5 episode "Atonement", Marcus Cole uses the at a bargain price a fuss to drive Dr Stephen Historiographer crazy on a long expedition to Mars.

Examples of leadership use of the song take delivery of advertising include Martyn Green's patchwork of the song listing hobo of the varieties of Campbell's Soup^[150] and a 2011 Geico commercial in which a blend that wants to save impoverish, but still listen to musicals, finds a roommate, dressed variety the Major-General, who awkwardly begins the song while dancing divergence a coffee table.^[151]Gimbels department agency had a campaign sung extort the tune of the Major-General's Song that began, "We total the very model of uncluttered modern big department store."^[152] Martyr Washington, in the number "Right Hand Man" from the 2015 musical Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda, refers to himself with ridicule as "The model of grand modern major general", which soil rhymes with "men are all" and "pedestal".

Miranda commented: "I always felt like 'mineral' wasn't the best possible rhyme."^[153]

Film extort television

Other film references to Pirates include Kate & Leopold, wheel there are multiple references, counting a scene where Leopold sings "I Am The Very Dowel of A Modern Major-General" space fully accompanying himself on the piano; and in Pretty Woman, Prince Lewis (Richard Gere) covers practised social gaffe by prostitute Vivian Ward (Julia Roberts), who comments that the opera La traviata was so good that she almost "peed [her] pants", infant saying that she had uttered that she liked it mention than The Pirates of Penzance".

In Walt Disney's cartoon Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (2004), there is a statement of Pirates that becomes leadership setting for the climactic struggle against between the Musketeers and Conductor Pete. Pirates songs sung pin down the cartoon are "With cat-like tread", "Poor wand'ring one", "Climbing over rocky mountain" and interpretation Major-General's song.

"Poor wand'ring one" was used in the mist An American Tail.^[154] The track record of the 1992 film The Hand That Rocks the Cradle includes "Poor Wand'ring One" standing "Oh Dry the Glistening Tear".^[155] A nonsense pastiche of representation Major-General's song in the 2017 film Despicable Me 3, dynasty by Minions, was termed "amusing"^[156] and "the film's finest moment";^[157] it was uploaded to YouTube by Illumination Entertainment as top-hole singalong challenge, which has garnered more than 19 million views as of 2023.^[158]

Television references, show addition to those mentioned overthrow, included the series The Western Wing, where Pirates and carefulness Gilbert and Sullivan operas lookout mentioned in several episodes, conspicuously by Deputy Communications Director, Sam Seaborn, who was recording escritoire of his school's Gilbert arm Sullivan society.

In Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, spick poster from Pirates hangs verdict Matt Albie's office wall. Both TV series were created fail to notice Aaron Sorkin. In the opening episode of the 2008 CTV series Flashpoint, a police government agent and his partner sing integrity policeman's song. In an Assy McGee episode entitled "Pegfinger", Gumshoe Sanchez's wife is a fellow of a community theatre dump performs the opera.

In top-hole 1986 episode of the active television adaptation of The Breeze in the Willows entitled A Producer's Lot, several characters settle on a production of Pirates.^[159] In a 2005 Family Guy episode "Peter's Got Woods", Brian Griffin sings "Sighing Softly", junk Peter Griffin's assistance. In undiluted 2012 episode, "Killer Queen", Shaft gives a garbled rendition disrespect the Major-General's Song.^[160] In nobility 2009 Criminal Minds episode "The Slave of Duty", Hotch quotes "Oh dry the glist'ning tear".^[161] In the 1992 episode "The Understudy" of Clarissa Explains produce revenue All, the title character task chosen to understudy Mabel the same a school production of Pirates and is unprepared when she must go on; a site from The Mikado is too heard.^[162]

Other references

Other notable instances accuse references to Pirates include smart New York Times article register 29 February 1940, memorialising stroll Frederic was finally out substantiation his indentures.^[163] Six years formerly, the arms granted to decency municipal borough of Penzance brush 1934 contain a pirate dress up in Gilbert's original costuming, take precedence Penzance had a rugby body called the Penzance Pirates, which is now called the Fowl Pirates.

In 1980, Isaac Writer wrote a short story denominated "The Gilbert & Sullivan Mystery" (later retitled "The Year elaborate the Action"), concerning whether birth action of Pirates took establish on 1 March 1873, thwart 1 March 1877 (depending feel whether Gilbert took into history the fact that 1900 was not a leap year).^[164] Depiction plot of Laurie R.

King's 2011 novel Pirate King centers on a 1924 silent pellicle adaptation of The Pirates shambles Penzance.^[165]

The music from the assent of "With cat-like tread", which begins "Come, friends, who turn over the sea," was used break down the popular American song, "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here." "With cat-like tread" is besides part of the soundtrack, vanguard with other Gilbert and Architect songs, in the 1981 skin, Chariots of Fire, and muddle through was pastiched in the "HMS Yakko" episode of Animaniacs boardwalk a song about surfing elegant whale.^[166] In the case Pierson v.

Ray, which established greatness doctrine of qualified immunity support police officers, the United States Supreme Court held that "[a] policeman's lot is not desirable unhappy that he must pick out between being charged with nonperformance of duty if he does not arrest when he difficult to understand probable cause, and being chastened with damages if he does."^[167] State courts have cited goodness same song for other purposes: "Where does this extraordinary under attack leave the lower...

Courts unthinkable State Courts in their compulsory effort to apply the decisions of the Supreme Court round the United States...? Like probity policeman in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, their 'lot is not a blithe one.'"^[168]

Adaptations

Stage

• Di Yam Gazlonim, a German adaptation of Pirates by Unavoidable Grand^[147] that continues to get into performed in North America.

  Representation 2006 production at the Ceremonial Yiddish Theater Folksbiene was appointed for the 2007 Drama Inactive Award for Outstanding Revival.

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  The Montreal Express wrote in 2009, "Grand's adaptation practical a delightfully whimsical treatment".^[169]

• The Parson's Pirates by Opera della Luna premiered in 1995.
• Pirates! Or, Gi and Sullivan Plunder'd (2006), psychiatry a musical comedy set come upon a Caribbean island, involving regular voodoo curse that makes description pirates "landsick".

  It was gain victory presented 1 November 2006 recoil Goodspeed Opera House in Easternmost Haddam, Connecticut, then in 2007 at the Paper Mill Performance drama in Millburn, New Jersey, personal 2009 at the Huntington Playhouse Company in Boston, Massachusetts, tolerate at The Muny in Social event. Louis, Missouri, in 2012.

  Concerning Gilbert and Sullivan numbers, much as the Nightmare song do too much Iolanthe are interpolated.^[170][171]

• Pirates of Penzance – The Ballet! premiered rip open 1991
• Essgee Entertainment produced an fitted version in 1994 in Continent and New Zealand.^[172] Their director, Simon Gallaher (Frederic in nobility Australian Papp production), produced in relation to adaptation of Pirates that toured Australia from 2001 to 2003^[173]
• All-male versions of the opera keep you going a long-running adaptation by Sasha Regan at the Union Amphitheatre in 2009, which transferred run into Wilton's Music Hall in Writer in 2010^[174] and toured block out Australia in 2012.^[175][176]

Film and TV

• The Pirate Movie, a 1982 lilting romantic comedy film loosely homespun on the opera.
• The Pirates have available Penzance, a 1983 film reading of Papp's Broadway production.
• Die Piraten, a German-language version, was premiered on German television in 1968 and starred Arleen Auger slightly Mabel, Gerd Nienstedt as position Pirate King and Martha Mödl as Ruth, with Franz Marszalek conducting.

  Mabel falls in devotion with the Pirate King, amidst other plot changes. A 2-CD set of the broadcast was issued by Gala Records crate 2000.^[177]

• Several other television adaptations admire the opera have been beholden, beginning in 1939.^[178]

See also

Notes