The Pirates of Penzance

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    One of Musical Theatre’s most loved productions, Pirates of Penzance, has delighted and enthralled audiences all around the world since its first production in 1879. In Opera Australia’s 2006 performance of this Gilbert and Sullivan classic they showed that even after a century, this production was timeless, a true testament to the genius of her creators. Pirates of Penzance is about a young man named Frederic (David Hobson) who has been wrongly apprenticed to a band of pirates, led by the Pirate King (Anthony Warlow), since a young age. He has finally reached an age at which he can go off into the world and live as a free man. However his troubles follow him in the form of his nurse old Ruth (Suzanne Johnston) who had been the reason for his accidental apprenticeship in the…

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    Pirates Of Penzance Essay

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    The Pirates of Penzance, written by W. S. Gilbert and music by Arthur Sullivan, is a story involving the following characters: Mabel, Frederic, Pirate King, Ruth, the Daughters, the Pirates, the Major General, and the Policemen. It's starts with Frederic being close to becoming 21 and being able to leave the “pirate gang”. Ruth, his maid when he was younger, tells Frederic that he shouldn't have been a pirate in the first place, he should've been a pilot but she had made a mistake. Frederic…

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    Last Thursday night, I attended Indiana Wesleyan University’s production of The Pirates of Penzance. This is a romantic comedy that is performed as an opera. This show was first created during the Victorian Age and intends to bring you back to this time period. The show was written by Sir WS Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan in the year of 1879. The Pirates of Penzance was first produced in the Fifth Avenue Theater in New York City on December 31, 1879. The show portrays the theme of moral duty.…

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    On October 30 at 7:30 p.m., I attended an opera workshop of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Pirates of Penzance”. “The Pirates of Penzance” or “The Slave of Duty” was written by W.S. Gilbert and composed by Arthur Sullivan in 1879. The play is a comic opera which consist of two acts accompany by orchestra music. The performance was held at the Preforming Arts Center at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi in Corpus Christi, Texas. The play was directed by Cassi Torres McNabb, the Stage Manager was…

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    Sitting under dark blue sky getting the whiff of freshly mowed grass was enchanting looking back trying to figure out where I went wrong ‘Why did he do this to me? How could I be so naive? He knew from the beginning that all I ever wanted was the truth’. My palace under the stars was almost like I could reach up and grab them, it hypnotized me. I was talking to one of my really good friends, Miriam, late at night just sitting on the queen size bed in my room. We were talking about my latest…

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    Loss Of An Eye Patch

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    Are we to assume that every pirate with an eye patch had an eye problem? Perhaps they all somehow lost one eye. However the loss of an eye had nothing to do with it. It has been proven in a study that when eyes go from darkness to light it can take up to 25 minutes for them to adjust to going from total darkness to brightness and the other way around. Since pirates often had to go from above deck to below deck where there was practically no light the smart pirates wore eye patches. So that one…

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    Today this song is often seen as creepy because the main character has a very strong desire for the one he loves. “Les Berceaux” is a French song by Gabriel Faure. This song is a lullaby about the candle light of ships, swinging off into the horizon like a mother rocking her child. Many composers write songs about the spring, but Ivor Gurney adds the sounds of birds to his song “Spring”. Some of the bird sounds that are found in this song are cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo. The lively and…

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    She learned IPA from a young age while studying there and numerous other musical techniques like reading music and languages like Italian and French. While she was there she participated in many shows including The Mikado (The Mikado), Pirates of Penzance (Ensemble), and Godspell (Ensemble). She has participated in OMEA All-State Choir for the last two years where she has sung with talented other teenagers with esteemed guest conductors. She would like to thank her wonderful and supportive…

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    encouraging these behaviors. When students are being reduced to such low standard, education is pushed out of their agenda and in come the self-loathing aspect of it. The song Another Brick in the Wall, is not just a cleverly rock song that everyone should enjoy, but it is a song that people should really understand and listen to and ask themselves, why did Pink Floyd decide to make a song out of this? Another song that reflects on today’s environment of school is none other than The Element…

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    Early on in the play Laura tells her mother that she liked a boy in high school. She tells her mother everything she remembers about him and the nickname he used to call her. Laura says to her mother, “Yes. His name was Jim. (Laura lifts the heavy annual from the clawfoot table.) Here is in The Pirates of Penzance,” (Williams 1662). Laura has almost the exact same conversation later in the play with Jim when they are talking about their time together in high school. Jim and Laura even have a…

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