Poor Wand'ring One, Don't Miss CPT's The Pirates of Penzance
The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan is a comedic opera. It tells the story of Frederic, a young man who has just been released from his pirate apprenticeship and is looking to live an upstanding life. Frederic meets Mabel and falls in love, but due to a most ingenious paradox learns that his apprenticeship isn't over and he must remain true to his pirate duties. Will Mabel wait for him? Will the rest of his pirate band find happiness too? I will begrudgingly own up to the following things: 1. I am not terribly familiar with anything Gilbert and Sullivan. 2. I've seen Penzance two other times in my life and struggle to remember the plot. 3. I am afraid of opera because I'm worried I won't "get it" and feel dumb. But it was silly of me to let these things attempt to dissuade me from this production because the production team, with Direction and Choreography by Liz Christensen and Music Direction by Antho...