H.M.S. Pinafore Livestream Recordings

PLEASE NOTE: This listing is for the recordings of the livestreams of H.M.S. Pinafore from March 16 and 23, 2025. If you previously purchased a livestream ticket, there is no need to purchase this ticket; it is still valid and will now point to the recordings. After purchasing your ticket, you will be emailed a link from tickets@pittsburghsavoyards.org to view the stream to the email you used to register for Showclix. This email is separate from your Showclix receipt. Please be patient; this process may take up to 5 minutes to complete. If you have still not received your email after 10 minutes, please check your spam/junk mail folder. If you are still having trouble, please contact information@pittsburghsavoyards.org and we will be happy to assist you.

These archive recordings of the performance will be available to view at any time until May 17, 2025.

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In Gilbert and Sullivan’s commercially and critically acclaimed operetta, the British ship H.M.S. Pinafore is currently docked at Portsmouth as the ship’s merry crew of proud English sailors attends to their usual duties. One sailor, the handsome Ralph Rackstraw, reveals to his shipmates that he is in love with Josephine, the daughter of Captain Corcoran, the captain of their ship, despite the problem that society prevents him from marrying someone above his station. Unbeknownst to Rackstraw, Josephine suffers from the society’s issue, wishing to marry Ralph instead of Joseph Porter, the pretentious “ruler of the Queen’s Navy.” Even after loud opposition from fellow sailor Dick Deadeye, the crew supports Ralph and Josephine’s forbidden union, sneaking around in the dead of night to escape notice from Corcoran and Porter while Corcoran experiences his own forbidden love interest budding between him and Little Buttercup, a hearty lower-class woman guarding some secrets of her own. In the end, the power of love triumphs over societal rank in life, fulfilling the promise of a happy and hilarious ending.

Music Director Guy Russo.  Stage Director Melissa Grande.