Pirates of Penzance
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Topic: Pirates of Penzance
Posted By: lucyvanpelt04
Subject: Pirates of Penzance
Date Posted: 9/20/05 at 11:00am
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Has anyone here done Pirates? Can you tell me about your set? Thanks. ------------- "When I grow up, I am going to be the biggest queen there ever was..." |
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Posted By: POB14
Date Posted: 9/20/05 at 3:36pm
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Try a Google search. The show gets done A LOT, so there's a lot of pictures out there. For example (good shots of their sets): http://www.savoyardlightopera.org/pirates_2000.html - http://www.savoyardlightopera.org/pirates_2000.html See also my reply to your other thread. ------------- POB Old Bugger, Curmudgeon, and Antisocial B**tard |
Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 9/21/05 at 3:30am
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As it is in the G&S shows are in the public domain I believe! They are adapted modified & it has been heaps of productions, as POB suggests! One Panto springs to mind by George Ridel http://www.amadrama.co.uk/ In his ?Harlots of Henley? which is a send up of ?PoP?!. The productions I have seen the sets are not something out of the box but rather just a Cyc & a hint of outdoors & indoors with or with out a stylised set piece square rigger. So it is really up to you how you tackle the Misenscene & depends on the size of your budget! Might I suggest keep the set simple & dress it with colour! ------------- Joe Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
Posted By: lucyvanpelt04
Date Posted: 9/21/05 at 10:03am
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Public domain is awesome! Do you think it would be a hard show for youth to do? Like ages 10-18? ------------- "When I grow up, I am going to be the biggest queen there ever was..." |
Posted By: POB14
Date Posted: 9/21/05 at 11:49am
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Public domain is, indeed, awesome. Personally I think it would be GREAT for youth to do -- after all, Frederic is only five-and-a-little-bit-over! (Joke, for those of you who know the show.) My junior high school did do this show, and it was quite popular. (Of course, there are those who claim that when I was in junior high school, Sir Arthur Sullivan was still alive and guest-conducted the performance himself. This is scurrilous and false.) The music will be unfamiliar in style to the teenagers, but that's a good thing: to be exposed to something different. The only problem I see is that Mabel is a kick-butt real live soprano. If you have somebody who can sing "Poor Wand'ring One" without busting a blood vessel, go for it! There's an old story about Lewis Carroll going to see a kids' (and I think it was little kids, grade-schoolers) production of Pinafore; Carroll was absolutely scandalized that the youngster playing the Captain "swore a big, big D" (the word "Damme") on stage in front of God and everybody. That's not really on-topic; I just like Lewis Carroll and G&S stories, and that's the only one with both. ------------- POB Old Bugger, Curmudgeon, and Antisocial B**tard |
Posted By: POB14
Date Posted: 9/21/05 at 11:51am
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A follow-up thought: Tell teenage boys you want them to do a musical = bad. Tell teenage boys they get to be pirates and abduct girls = good! (Don't tell them they abduct the girls in order to MARRY them, though!) ------------- POB Old Bugger, Curmudgeon, and Antisocial B**tard |
Posted By: lucyvanpelt04
Date Posted: 9/21/05 at 1:17pm
------------- "When I grow up, I am going to be the biggest queen there ever was..." |
Posted By: lucyvanpelt04
Date Posted: 9/21/05 at 1:18pm
Wonderful idea, POB....wonderful! I always have trouble getting boys to try out. And that is a terrific way to lure them in!!! ------------- "When I grow up, I am going to be the biggest queen there ever was..." |
Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 9/22/05 at 1:37am
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Your a real card POB! Fantastically devious!  Simon Gallaher did a very successful production & tour of his Rock n Roll version of pirates. http://www.davidspicer.com/ppm.htm Chookas Joe ------------- Joe Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
Posted By: pauliebonn
Date Posted: 9/26/05 at 3:08am
| The set for our "Pirates..." was fake rocks (about 10 feet high) on the stage, and A couple of doors and windows for the scenes where we are doing the abducting. Pretty simplistic. |