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Pirates of Penzance Has a Suntan in Goodspeed's Tropical Retelling

By Kenneth Jones
Playbill
01 Nov 2006


Andrew Varela plays The Pirate King at Goodspeed's Pirates of Penzance.
photo by Diane Sobolewski

Goodspeed Musicals infuses a "Pirates of the Caribbean" flavor to Gilbert & Sullivan for its new production of the comic operetta Pirates of Penzance, opening Nov. 1 at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, CT.

Gordon Greenberg directs the new adaptation, billed as a "swashbuckling musical comedy featuring pirates, parrots and perilous curses," wherein "swords clash, ladies swoon and policemen sing in a spectacular event for all ages."
The new musical arrangements by John McDaniel give a hint of the tropics. The work is set in the Caribbean in the 19th century. The show coincides with the popular Disney film franchise, "Pirates of the Caribbean," but is not directly related to the movies. (A third film in the series is due out in the next year.)

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