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The Pirates of Penzance

6.0 124 mins Comedy   Family   Music   1985
CBC   Stratford Festival  
Director(s): Norman Campbell Brian Macdonald

As a young child, Frederic had been apprenticed to a pirate by mistake when he should have been apprenticed to a pilot. Now, having reached his 21st year, Frederic's indentures are at last over and he happily leaves the service of the pirates. When Frederic meets the beautiful Mabel, one of the many daughters (or wards in Chancery) of Major-General Stanley, they fall in love and decide to marry. However, complications arise when the pirates decide to marry the rest of the Major-General's daughters, themselves - and Frederic's birthdate turns out to be not all it seems. Filmed live from the 1985 Stratford Festival in Ontario.

Casts of The Pirates of Penzance

Jeff Hyslop

as Frederic

Brent Carver

as The Pirate King

Caralyn Tomlin

as Mabel

Douglas Chamberlain

as Maj. Gen. Stanley

Pat Galloway

as Ruth

Jim White

as Samuel

Stephen Beamish

as Sergeant of Police

Karen Skidmore

as Kate

Karen Wood

as Edith

Alison Grant

as Isabel

Wendy Abbott

as Blue Stocking

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