April 25, 2025

Pirates! Is the Very Model of a Modern Major Debacle

  Photo: Joan Marcus The exclamation mark really is the giveaway. In the making of Pirates! The Penzance Musical, an exquisitely funny, meticulously concocted theatrical pavlova—the 1879 operetta The Pirates of Penzance by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan—has been whacked with a mallet. Musical nuance and lyrical wit have become, in most cases, broadfaced …

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