The Pirates of Penzance

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• Genre(s): Comedy, Family, Musical
• Language(s): English
• Director(s): Norman Campbell, Brian Macdonald, Anne Wootten
• Cast(s): Jeff Hyslop, Brent Carver, Wendy Abbott, Caralyn Tomlin, Douglas Chamberlain See all Cast & Crew

• Duration: 2h 4min
• Music: Berthold Carriere
• Similar To: Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 4: Dawn of the Vampires, Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
• Story:
  Brent Carver stars as the swashbuckling Pirate King in the famous Stratford Festival's rollicking production of the Gilbert & Sullivan classic that pits British bobbles against unlikely pirates on the Cornish coast. Sullivan regarded this operetta - a hit ever since its first production in New York in 1879 - as the best comedy he composed. He even said of his collaborator, "The libretto is ingenious, clever, wonderfully fun in parts and sometimes brilliant in dialogue - beautifully written for music, as is all Gilbert does." Indeed, audiences will find the music every bit a match for the lyrics, with the genius of the score lying in its parody of grand opera. Filmed in 1985 at the world-famous Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario.
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