Pirates of Penzance

Set Sail With the Pirates Climb aboard for a swashbuckling musical journey with this classic Gilbert & Sullivan tale presented by the Rochester Opera House Youth Theatre Company. Directed and choreographed by award-winning actor Jennifer Batchelder, the production features some of the most talented kids from around the Seacoast and dashing live music in the orchestra pit with music director Kathy Fink and her musicians. When Frederic was but a wee lad, his nursemaid, Ruth, was instructed to apprentice him to a ?pilot.? Hard of hearing, Ruth accidentally apprentices him to a band of PIRATES! Frederic serves dutifully, but now that he is older? prepare for a hilarious adventure! Set sail with this family-friendly classic comedy that includes the song I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General, one of the most famous patter songs in musical theatre history. The lyric of a patter song is characterized by tongue-twisting rhyming text, delivered with rapid speed.