The Pirates of Penzance Livestream Recordings

This listing is for the recordings of the livestreams of The Pirates of Penzance from April 9 and April 10, 2022. 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 seperate 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 June 1, 2022.

This show has two casts to choose from: the Sullivan cast was recorded on April 9, and the Gilbert cast was recorded on April 10. You will be able to select the cast you would like to view (GILBERT or SULLIVAN) when purchasing your ticket. Please note: the Sullivan cast recording contains full subtitles for lyrics and dialogue, while the Gilbert cast recording contains subtitles for lyrics only.

SULLIVAN double-cast roles: 
Major-General Stanley: Franklin Mosley
Samuel: Joshua W. Berkey
Frederic: Ben Nadler
Sergeant of Police: Eric Schaffer
Ruth: Michele Gray-Schaffer
Mabel: Emily Gallagher
Edith: Brady Collins
Kate: Julia Polisoto
Isabel: Lisa Dunlap

GILBERT double-cast roles: 
Major-General Stanley: Andy Hickly
Samuel: Don Neuhaus
Frederic: Paul Yeater
Sergeant of Police: Sean Lenhart
Ruth: Sally Denmead
Mabel: Alexandra Aks
Edith: Kate Manuel
Kate: Savannah Simeone
Isabel: Constance Morin

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Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance is a rollicking, delightfully funny tale of a band of soft-tempered pirates. Mistakenly apprenticed to a band of pirates by his nursemaid Ruth at the age of eight, the handsome Frederic is now twenty-one and, though quite fond of the group of joyous and fun-loving pirates, virtuously chooses to abandon his profession, dedicating himself instead to their eradication. Shortly after leaving them, he encounters a gaggle of beautiful maidens (one of whom, Mabel, steals his heart). The whole group has a run-in with the pirates themselves (as well as the girls’ father, the eccentric Major-General), but they are able to escape their clutches on the false premise that the Major-General is an orphan — a fact these tenderhearted pirates simply cannot help but take into account, given the fact that the majority of them are orphans themselves. Later, Frederic leads a band of cowardly policemen to take out the Pirate King and his men once and for all, but a secret is revealed about Frederic that will change his fate forever. Coming on the heels of their first international sensation H.M.S. Pinafore, Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance, or: The Slave of Duty is a delightful farce of a classic that is fun for all ages and beloved since its premiere in 1879.

Sample clips