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Gilbert & Sullivan: The Pirates Of Penzance (1985)
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Brent Carver stars as the swashbuckling Pirate King in the famous Stratford Festival's rollicking production of the Gilbert & Sullivan classic that pits British bobbies 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.
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