The Pirates of Penzance (1985)

ALL 06/21/1985 (en) Comedy, Family, Music 124 Min
  • Release
    06/21/1985
  • Production
    CBC, Stratford Festival
  • Rotten tomato
    60%
  • Original title
    The Pirates of Penzance
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

Brent Carver stars as the swashbuckling Pirate King in the famous Stratford Festival's rollicking production of the Gilbert & Sullivan classic that pits British bobbles against unlikely pirates on the Cornish coast. Sullivan regarded this operetta - a hit ever since its first production in New York in 1879 - as the best comedy he composed. He even said of his collaborator, "The libretto is ingenious, clever, wonderfully fun in parts and sometimes brilliant in dialogue - beautifully written for music, as is all Gilbert does." Indeed, audiences will find the music every bit a match for the lyrics, with the genius of the score lying in its parody of grand opera. Filmed in 1985 at the world-famous Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario.

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Casts

  1. Jeff Hyslop

    Frederic

  2. Brent Carver

    The Pirate King

  3. Caralyn Tomlin

    Mabel

  4. Douglas Chamberlain

    Maj. Gen. Stanley

  5. Pat Galloway

    Ruth

  6. Jim White

    Samuel

  7. Stephen Beamish

    Sergeant of Police

  8. Karen Skidmore

    Kate

  9. Karen Wood

    Edith

  10. Alison Grant

    Isabel

  11. Wendy Abbott

    Blue Stocking

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 11 , Crews : 8

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The Pirates of Penzance (1985) 124 Min

ALL 06/21/1985 (en)
Comedy, Family, Music
  • Release 06/21/1985
  • Production
    CBC, Stratford Festival
  • Original title The Pirates of Penzance
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

Brent Carver stars as the swashbuckling Pirate King in the famous Stratford Festival's rollicking production of the Gilbert & Sullivan classic that pits British bobbles against unlikely pirates on the Cornish coast. Sullivan regarded this operetta - a hit ever since its first production in New York in 1879 - as the best comedy he composed. He even said of his collaborator, "The libretto is ingenious, clever, wonderfully fun in parts and sometimes brilliant in dialogue - beautifully written for music, as is all Gilbert does." Indeed, audiences will find the music every bit a match for the lyrics, with the genius of the score lying in its parody of grand opera. Filmed in 1985 at the world-famous Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario.

  1. Norman Campbell, Brian Macdonald

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer