Sat May 1 – Sat May 15

Pirates! The Penzance Musical

by Based on the operetta by W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan; adapted by Rupert Holmes

Footlight Club · Eliot Hall · Jamaica Plain · Boston

Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance relocated from the Cornish coast to New Orleans, with jazz, blues and Caribbean rhythms worked through fresh orchestrations and the original's wordplay left intact. The Footlight Club, founded in 1877, closes its season with it.