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The Guild is proud to announce a special winter presentation of a reimagined
classic! The box office opens starting on January 20, 2010 on Wednesdays
through Saturdays from 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM and 1 hour prior to curtain.
All tickets are $15 in a Festival seating arrangement (no assigned seats).
The box office number is (304) 342-9312. |
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Time |
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Friday, January 29, 2010 |
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7:30 PM |
| Saturday, January 30, 2010 |
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7:30 PM |
| Sunday, January 31, 2010 |
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3:00 PM |
| Friday, February 5, 2010 |
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7:30 PM |
| Saturday, February 6, 2010 |
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7:30 PM |
| Sunday, February 7, 2010 |
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3:00 PM |
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Overview
 A fresh take on one of Gilbert and Sullivan’s most popular
comic operas, this updated version of “The Pirates of
Penzance” took New York by storm when it premiered in
Central Park in 1980 as rethought by Joseph Papp at the New
York Shakespeare Festival and led to a subsequent smash-hit
Broadway run. This take on Pirates” earned several
Tony Awards, including a Tony Award for Best Revival and the
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical.
Compared to traditional productions of the operetta, Papp’s
“Pirates” features a more swashbuckling Pirate King and
Frederic, and a broader, more musical comedy style of humor.
It also features an adapted orchestration and a number of
key changes.
Wacky, irreverent and as entertaining today as it was when
it first opened in 1879, “The Pirates of Penzance” spins a
hilarious farce of sentimental pirates, bumbling policemen,
dim lovers, dewy-eyed daughters and an eccentric
Major-General, all morally bound to the ridiculous dictates
of honor and duty. The operetta recounts the story of
Frederic, apprenticed as a child to a band of tenderhearted,
orphaned pirates by his nurse who, being hard of hearing,
had mistaken her master’s instructions to apprentice the boy
to a pilot. He will fulfill his indentues on his 21st
birthday and be released from the band of pirates. Frederic
meets Mabel, the daughter of Major-General Stanley and they
fall in love. He finds out, however, that he was born on
February 29 and so, technically, he only has a birthday each
leap year and so he must serve another 63 years. Mabel
agrees to wait for him faithfully.
The Charleston Light Opera Guild performed this version of
the show in the fall of 1982. |
Characters
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Description |
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Casting Notes |
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Pirate King
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Swashbuckling Errol Flynn type |
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Gary Brown |
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Frederic
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A manly, genuine, and innocent
sidekick (21-ish) |
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Mark Hornbaker |
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Mabel
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Young
woman of the 19th century depicted like a silent
movie star |
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Marina Jurica |
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Ruth
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A proper English nanny who has raised
her young charge, Frederic, “properly” to be a gentleman.
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Carole Carter |
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Major-General Stanley |
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He is a
kind of male Queen Victoria in his sensibilities and respectability
but is quirky and believable. |
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Alan Pennington |
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Samuel
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The Pirate King’s right hand man but not awfully bright. |
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Mark Felton |
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The Sergeant
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Gangly
police Captain, stiff yet agile. |
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Roger Wolfe |
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Edith
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Mabel’s sister, proper, young, and snappy. |
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Toni Pilato |
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Isabel
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Mabel's
sister, who is proper, young and snappy. |
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Jessica Cooper |
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Kate
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Mabels' sister, who is proper, pleasant, and bright. |
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Courtney Flint |
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Ladies |
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Individual and vivid
young ladies who must have vocal power to compete with the
larger number of Pirates and Police. They are Mabel’s
sisters and Major General Stanley’s daughters.
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Caroline Chamness
Johanna Miesner
Archana Narasimhan
Hope Snodgrass |
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Pirates
and Police |
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Evan Buck
Doug Cheatham
Greg Garner
Richie Robb
Tim Whitener |
Production
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Original Broadway
Production: Book and Lyrics by Sir William Gilbert; Music by
Sir Arthur Sullivan; Reinterpretation by Joseph Papp.
For the Guild:
Direction by Nina Pasinetti; Musical Direction by Mary Ellen
Logsdon.
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