The Pirates of Penzance

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…

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