GILBERT & SULLIVAN: PIRATES PENZANCE

Details

• Release Year: 1985
• Genre: Classic, Comedy, Music, Musical
• Plot: Brent Carver stars as the swashbuckling Pirate King in the famous Stratford Festival's rollicking production of the Gilbert & Sullivan classic that pits British bobbies 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.
• Cast: Brent Carver, Jeff Hyslop, Caralyn Tomlin, Douglas Chamberlain, Pat Galloway, Jim White, Stephen Beamish, Karen Skidmore, Karen Wood, Allison Grant, Wendy Abbott, Marion Adler, Michael Beattie, Aggie Cekuta, Timothy Cruickshank, Domenico Fiore, David Gale, Nigel Hamer, Scott Hurst, David Keeley, Larry Mannell, Richard March, Dale Mieske, Ruth Nichol, Ted Pearson, Jeffrey Prentice, Max Reimer, Lindsay Richardson, Bradley C. Rudy, Mark Wilson, Norman Campbell, William S. Gilbert
• Director: Norman Campbell
• Runtime: 2:04
• Media Format: Movie