Sheffield Teachers’ Operatic Society made a swashbuckling return to the Lyceum Theatre following their critically acclaimed production of THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK with a fresh take on Gilbert & Sullivan’s forever popular buccaneer adventure.
All hands were on deck for this updated version of THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE, which tells a sea story of sentimental pirates, bumbling policemen, dim witted young lovers and an eccentric modern Major-General.
A new version of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance
Book by Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
Music by Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan
Musical Adaptation by William Elliott
Directed by Susan McCormick; Musical Director Anna Wright; Choreography by Claire Harriott.
As presented on Broadway by the New York Shakespeare Festival, Joseph Papp, Producer. Directed by Wilford Leach, Choreography by Graciela Daniele.
This amateur production was presented by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Ltd on behalf of Music Theater International of New York.
The Pirates of Penzance Show Crits
Sheffield Telegraph - Nov 24 2006
"Joseph Papp's Broadway version of the fourth Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration (fifth, counting Thespis) has been tweaked a little by Sheffield Teachers Operatic Society to ring more laughs out of it.
Most of the cast in the production could have got away singing the original, in the case of Mabel, Alison Robertson, wiht spectacular results.