Our 2025 Spring Teen Musical:
The Pirates of Penzance JR!
For 10-18 year olds
Firebird theatre announces our first ever Spring Teen Musical: THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE JR!
DIRECTOR: SOPHIE SULLIVAN
PRODUCER: JANET HOEHL
FOR ACTORS IN GRADES 7 - 12; Join the crew of this hilarious farce with sentimental pirates, dim-witted young lovers and an eccentric Major-General, based on the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.
Rehearsals: Saturdays 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM and Tuesdays: 6:30 - 8:30 pm music rehearsals
LOCATION: ROYERSFORD BAPTIST CHURCH (RBC)
REHEARSAL DATES: FEBRUARY 22 - MAY 3
Feb 8: Audition workshop to learn how to perform in a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta!@RBC
AUDITIONS: February 15;
CALLBACKS: Tuesday February 18.
PERFORMANCES: MAY 2/3 AT RBC
Presented by special arrangement with Music Theatre International. www.MTI.shows.com
SHOW INFORMATION: The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The story concerns Frederic, who, having completed his 21st year, is released from his apprenticeship to a band of tender-hearted pirates. He meets the daughters of the incompetent Major-General Stanley, including Mabel, and the two young people fall instantly in love. Frederic soon learns, however, that he was born on 29 February, and so, technically, he has a birthday only once each leap year. His indenture specifies that he remain apprenticed to the pirates until his "twenty-first birthday", meaning that he must serve for another 63 years. Bound by his own sense of duty to honour his bond with the pirates, Frederic's only solace is that Mabel agrees to wait for him faithfully. The pirates' maid-of-all-work, Ruth, eventually reveals a fact that saves the day.
Pirates was the fifth Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration and introduced the much-parodied "Major-General's Song". The opera was performed for over a century by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in Britain until the copyrights expired and by many other opera companies and repertory companies worldwide. Modernized productions include Joseph Papp's 1981 Broadway production, which ran for 787 performances, winning the Tony Award for Best Revival and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical, and spawning many imitations and a 1983 film adaptation. Pirates remains popular today, taking its place along with The Mikado and H.M.S. Pinafore as one of the most frequently played Gilbert and Sullivan operas.
The following forms below must be completed, signed and submitted by a parent or guardian before actor may attend audition and participate in program:
1. Audition Form
2. Cast Participation Agreement.
3. Firebird Theatre Notice of Non-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment
4. Firebird Theatre Minor or Adult Release Form
Thank you in advance for your cooperation!
DIRECTOR: SOPHIE SULLIVAN
PRODUCER: JANET HOEHL
FOR ACTORS IN GRADES 7 - 12; Join the crew of this hilarious farce with sentimental pirates, dim-witted young lovers and an eccentric Major-General, based on the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.
Rehearsals: Saturdays 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM and Tuesdays: 6:30 - 8:30 pm music rehearsals
LOCATION: ROYERSFORD BAPTIST CHURCH (RBC)
REHEARSAL DATES: FEBRUARY 22 - MAY 3
Feb 8: Audition workshop to learn how to perform in a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta!@RBC
AUDITIONS: February 15;
CALLBACKS: Tuesday February 18.
PERFORMANCES: MAY 2/3 AT RBC
Presented by special arrangement with Music Theatre International. www.MTI.shows.com
SHOW INFORMATION: The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The story concerns Frederic, who, having completed his 21st year, is released from his apprenticeship to a band of tender-hearted pirates. He meets the daughters of the incompetent Major-General Stanley, including Mabel, and the two young people fall instantly in love. Frederic soon learns, however, that he was born on 29 February, and so, technically, he has a birthday only once each leap year. His indenture specifies that he remain apprenticed to the pirates until his "twenty-first birthday", meaning that he must serve for another 63 years. Bound by his own sense of duty to honour his bond with the pirates, Frederic's only solace is that Mabel agrees to wait for him faithfully. The pirates' maid-of-all-work, Ruth, eventually reveals a fact that saves the day.
Pirates was the fifth Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration and introduced the much-parodied "Major-General's Song". The opera was performed for over a century by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in Britain until the copyrights expired and by many other opera companies and repertory companies worldwide. Modernized productions include Joseph Papp's 1981 Broadway production, which ran for 787 performances, winning the Tony Award for Best Revival and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical, and spawning many imitations and a 1983 film adaptation. Pirates remains popular today, taking its place along with The Mikado and H.M.S. Pinafore as one of the most frequently played Gilbert and Sullivan operas.
The following forms below must be completed, signed and submitted by a parent or guardian before actor may attend audition and participate in program:
1. Audition Form
2. Cast Participation Agreement.
3. Firebird Theatre Notice of Non-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment
4. Firebird Theatre Minor or Adult Release Form
Thank you in advance for your cooperation!
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