Fintan Cleary once again takes the baton as our Musical Director, with Eithne Corrigan taking her role as Chorus Mistress. Steering the Ship is another Wexford native, our Director, Thomas O’Leary. Gary Stephens and Clare Kavanagh have been lined up to play the romantic leads, Frederic and Mabel with Pat Lawlor and Tony Brennan returning 20 years later to reprise their roles from the 2002 production as the Major General and Sergeant of Police. Can he find a way to live happily-ever-after with Mabel?įeaturing a wealth of talent, Wexford’s own George Lawlor takes to the stage as the swash-buckling Pirate King with Elizabeth Rose Browne cast in the comedic role of Ruth. Although very much in love, he is a slave to duty.
Frederic falls head-over-heels in love with Mabel, the daughter of Major-General Stanley. Born on 29 February, Frederic discovers that he is technically still a child (and a Pirate!). The Pirates of Penzance, Gilbert and Sullivan’s classic musical comedy of mistaken identity, comes swashbuckling to the screen with all the laughs, songs and stars that made it a long-running Broadway smash Kevin Kline reprises his Tony Award winning role along with Angela Lansbury, Linda Ronstadt, George Rose and Rex Smith in the story of a. Gilbert and Sullivans The Pirates of Penzance is a rollicking, delightfully funny tale of a band of soft-tempered pirates. Frederic is due to be released from his apprenticeship on his 21st birthday, but there’s a problem. Pirates of Penzance Pirates of Penzance Operetta Writers: W.S. She thought he said 'pirate' and thus the many troubles began. When Frederic was merely a boy, his Father instructed his nurse, Ruth, to have him apprenticed as a pilot. Synopsis: On the coast of Cornwall, a band of tenderhearted pirates celebrates the coming of age of Frederic, who was mistakenly. When the Sergeant implores the pirates to yield in the Queen’s name, Ruth reveals that they are in fact peers. Frederic and the pirates seize the MajorGeneral and overcome the police. The girls chide him for leaving his bed so late at night. Afflicted by insomnia, the MajorGeneral enters.
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Cheney Foundation, Illinois Arts Council, The Jordan & Jean Nerenberg Fund for the Future, Peoples Gas and WPB, the Special Service Area for the Wicker Park and Bucktown neighborhoods.Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera is packed full of sentimental pirates, blundering policeman, absurd adventures, and improbable paradoxes. The policemen hide as soon as the pirates arrive. Driehaus Foundation, The Alphawood Foundation, The Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, The Boeing Company, The Elizabeth F. The Hypocrites is supported in part by The Richard H. For more information about The Hypocrites or to learn about ways to become involved, please e-mail. Pirates of Penzance is the first Gilbert and Sullivan show Illyria ever performed.
Since the company’s founding, we have produced over 50 mainstage productions securing 23 Jeff Citations and 2 After Dark Awards. We strive to create a theatrical experience that remains with the audience and affects the individual’s life. The Hypocrites was founded in 1997 to ask the audience to take a different look at theater. “Ambitious, risk-taking, self-aware, original-adaptation loving, off-Loop company with a style very much its own.” - Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
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