The Pirates of Penzance Livestream

PLEASE NOTE: This listing is for the online livestream of The Pirates of Penzance. After purchasing your ticket, you will be emailed a link to view the stream to the email you used to register for Showclix. 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.

After the livestream is finished, an archive recording of the performance will be available at the same link for one week.

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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.