Watch Full The Pirates of Penzance (1985) : Movies 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. | ||
| Release Date | : | Jun 21, 1985 |
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| Genres | : | Comedy, Family, Music |
| Production Company | : | CBC, Stratford Festival |
| Production Countries | : | Canada |
| Casts | : | Jeff Hyslop, Brent Carver, Caralyn Tomlin, Douglas Chamberlain, Pat Galloway, Jim White, Stephen Beamish, Karen Skidmore, Karen Wood, Alison Grant, Wendy Abbott |
| Plot Keywords | : | pirate |
