![]() The feelings between Ruth, his nursery maid, and him are deep feelings, they care for each other on the most profound level. Top note in the production is Bb5.) Young, handsome, manly, and genuine. ![]() Her naivety and innocence make her a sweet and funny character.įrederic – Tenor (Range is from C3 to C5. She is genuine and utterly sincere as she captures the love of young Frederick. Mabel’s top note in the production is Eb6) Young (17-20) and beautiful, very much a young woman of the 19th century. Mabel – Coloratura soprano (Range is two octaves up from C4, i.e., C4 to C6, but sometimes with extra top notes. He would never really hurt anybody, especially not orphans as he and his band are all orphans themselves “and know what it is.” However, he does become quite angry at the Major General. Also not too bright, his idea of manhandling women is to carry them off to a preacher and ruthlessly marry them on the spot. He wants to be a pirate just to have his shirt open, the wind in his hair, and to stand around like Captain Jack Sparrow. An adventurer and sentimental, romantic fellow. The Pirate King – Baritone (range is from G (G2) an octave and a half below middle C (C4) to G (G4) above middle C in other words, G2 to G4) Swashbuckling, athletic, and handsome leader of The Pirates of Penzance. Then the Pirates are persuaded to yield to the Police Sergeant in Queen Victoria’s name and THEN Ruth reveals that the Pirates are all “noblemen who have gone wrong.” All is forgiven and Frederic and the Pirates can marry the daughters! The constabulary, lead by their bumbling Police Sergeant, try to defend the castle but are easily overcome. So she teams up with the Pirates when they attack Major-General Stanley’s home,Tremorden Castle, after learning Major-General Stanley was never an orphan. Ruth, Frederic’s nursery maid, wants to marry Frederic but he rebuffs her after seeing the younger, more beautiful Mabel. The Major General, the girls’ father, saves them from this fate by claiming he is an orphan and, as the Pirates make it a practice of never “mistreating” an orphan, they are compelled to let him go. There are also other subplots at work: the Pirates, upon seeing Mabel’s sisters at play, decide to capture them, so that they may then take them to the nearest clergyman and marry them on the spot. Bound by his own sense of duty, Frederic’s only solace is that Mabel agrees to wait for him faithfully. His apprenticeship indentures state that he remains apprenticed to the pirates until his 21st birthday, and so he must serve for another 63 years. Frederic finds out however, that he was born in Leap Year, the 29th of February and so, technically, he only has a birthday every four years, each Leap Year on February 29th. He meets Mabel, the daughter of Major-General Stanley, and the two young people fall instantly in love. The story concerns Frederic who, having completed his 21st year, is released from his apprenticeship to a band of tender-hearted pirates. The official premiere was in New York on December 31st, 1879. This show is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W.S. “The Pirates of Penzance” (or “The Slave of Duty”) (G&S, or Rogers & Hammerstein, Bernstein) ![]() 60 – 90 seconds of classical musical theater rep.All auditioners MUST be vaccinated for Covid 19 and show proof of vaccination at auditions.
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