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...Pirates of Penzance is one of Gilbert and Sullivan’s most popular comic operettas. Frederick is a duty-bound young man mistakenly apprenticed to a dreaded band of pirates called the Pirates of Penzance. When he turns 21, Frederick decides to leave the band and devote his life to the extermination of the pirates, but dewey-eyed maidens, bungling policemen and soft-hearted pirates thwart his efforts in a hilarious, topsy-turvy plot. Tickets available through the Harvard Box Office, evening shows for $8 and matinees for $6. Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday...
...Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan could have hardly imagined their most beloved operetta The Pirates of Penzance or The Slave of Duty as performed by the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players under the direction of Ashley A.P. Horan ’05. It is a delightful romp of song and dance, with a flamboyant (and let us not forget, glitter-chest) Pirate King who immediately calls to mind images of Captain Jack Sparrow...
...Gilbert and Sullivan’s light-hearted operetta of duty, sentimental orphan pirates, cowardly police and love is brought to a different level of wild comedy with the personal interpretations in characterization, particularly by actors in secondary roles. Ben Engle, a senior at the Boston Conservatory who plays the Pirate King is the most memorable part of the cast. From his entrance, Engle was overwhelmingly significant, in part due to his tall frame and strong stage presence, but more so for his outrageously affected behavior and heavy eye make...
...frequency that the Harvard-Radcliff Gilbert & Sullivan Players stage The Pirates of Penzance (every four to five years) speaks of the wide appeal of the operetta, the sold out audiences speak as loudly to the ability of this particularly gifted cast...
...operetta of action, adventure, comedy and love is ready to take shore at Harvard’s Agassiz Theater. In nine performances spanning from Thursday, Dec. 2 to Saturday, Dec. 11, the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan (G&S) Players hope to pillage, plunder, sing and act their way into the hearts of pirates and fair maidens alike with their latest performance, The Pirates of Penzance...