Gilbert & sullivan pirates of penzance
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The Pirates of Penzance:
THEATRE ROYAL WINCHESTER
8th - 12th October
Mon - Sat pm
Wed & Fri pm / Sat pm
CAMBRIDGE ARTS THEATRE
14th - 19th October
Mon - Sat pm
Thu & Sat pm
Wilton’s Music Hall, London
29th October - 23rd November
Mon - Sat pm
Thu & Sat pm
THEATRE ROYAL BATH
2nd -7th December
Mon - Sat pm
Wed & Sat pm
From its humble beginnings playing to 50 people under a railway arch in Southwark, The Pirates are preparing for their voyage across the sea. Ahoy boys!
Sasha's All-Male Pirates started a 4-week run at The Union Theatre back in The seater venue she established back in , set under a railway arch in Southwark, had been growing from strength to strength. Pirates received rave reviews "pure joy," "an irresistible delight," "as brilliant and heretical as Matthew Bourne's vision of Swan Lake."
In the spring of the production moved to the oldest surviving music hall in the world, the magnificent seater Wilton's Music Hall where it ran to full houses for six weeks. Suddenly there was a huge amount of interest in this innovative production. We were invited, off the back of Wiltons, to play the seater Rose Theatre in Kingston for a fortni
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Much of The Pirates of Penzance () was written in New York City, and this opera has always had a special place in the Gilbert and Sullivan canon for Americans. One night before Pirates opened in New York, one of Carte’s British touring Pinafore companies gave a single rough first performance, securing the copyright in England. The New York opening was well received and Carte launched four separate American touring companies to capitalize on profits. Gilbert and Sullivan returned to London, where four months after the New York opening, The Pirates of Penzance was finally seen at the Opera Comique, sustaining audiences there for a year. During the Christmas season of , Carte organized a children’s company to revive the opera. |
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Run time: 2 hours essential 40 minutes