The Pirates of Penzance

• Original Broadway Production (1879)
  New York, NY
• New York Revival (1880)
  New York, NY
• London Production (1880)
  London, England
• New York Revival (1882)
  New York, NY
• New York Revival (1882)
  New York, NY
• New York Revival (1882)
  New York, NY
• New York Revival (1883)
  New York, NY
• London Revival (1884)
  London, England
• New York Revival (1885)
  New York, NY
• New York Revival (1890)
  New York, NY
• New York Revival (1890)
  New York, NY
• New York Revival (1898)
  New York, NY
• New York Revival (1900)
  New York, NY
• Broadway Revival (1912)
  New York, NY
• New York Revival (1915)
  New York, NY
• Broadway Revival (1918)
  New York, NY
• Broadway Revival (1926)
  New York, NY
• Broadway Revival (Return Engagement) (1927)
  New York, NY
• Broadway Revival (1931)
  New York, NY
• Broadway Revival (1933)
  New York, NY
• Broadway Revival (1934)
  New York, NY
• Broadway Revival (1934)
  New York, NY
• Broadway Revival (1935)
  New York, NY
• Broadway Revival (1936)
  New York, NY
• Broadway Revival (1936)
  New York, NY
• Broadway Revival (1939)
  New York, NY
• Broadway Revival (1940)
  New York, NY
• Broadway Revival (1942)
  New York, NY
• Broadway Revival (1944)
  New York, NY
• New York Revival (1946)
  New York, NY
• Broadway Revival (1948)
  New York, NY
• Broadway Revival (1949)
  New York, NY
• Broadway Revival (1951)
  New York, NY
• Broadway Revival (1952)
  New York, NY
• Broadway Revival (1955)
  New York, NY
• Unknown (1960)
  no location listed yet
• City Center Revival (1961)
  New York, NY
• New York Revival (1961)
  New York, NY
• Unknown (1962)
  no location listed yet
• Unknown (1964)
  no location listed yet
• Unknown (1964)
  no location listed yet
• Unknown (1965)
  no location listed yet
• Unknown (1966)
  no location listed yet
• Unknown (1968)
  no location listed yet
• Unknown (1968)
  no location listed yet
• Broadway Revival (1976)
  New York, NY
• New York City Opera Revival (1977)
  New York, NY
• Unknown (1978)
  no location listed yet
• Light Opera of Manhattan Revival (1979)
  New York, NY
• New York Shakespeare Festival Production (1980)
  New York, NY
• Broadway Revival (1981)
  New York, NY
• National Tour (1981)
   
• Film Version (1982)
   
• London Production (1982)
  London, England
• Australian Production (1984)
  no location listed yet
• Off-Off Broadway Revival (1985)
  New York, NY
• Off-Broadway Revival (2006)
  New York, NY
• New York City Opera Revival (2007)
  New York, NY
• Concert Revival (2013)
  New York, NY

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Original score

• Pour, O Pour the Pirate Sherry
• When Frederic was a Little Lad
• Oh, Better Far to Live and Die
• Oh False One, You Have Deceived Me!
• What Shall I Do
• Climbing Over Rocky Mountains
• Stop, Ladies, Pray!
• Oh, Is There Not One Maiden Breast
• Poor Wandering One
• What Ought We to Do?
• How Beautifully Blue the Sky
• Stay, We Must Not Lose Our Senses
• Here's a First Rate Opportunity
• Hold, Monsters!
• I am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General
• Oh, Men of Dark and Dismal Fate
• Oh, Dry the Glistening Tear
• Then Frederic
• When the Foeman Bares his Steel
• Now for the Pirates' Lair!
• When You Had Left Our Pirate Fold
• Away, Away! My Heart's on Fire
• All is Prepared
• Stay, Frederic, Stay!
• No, I am Brave
• When a Felon's Not Engaged in his Employment
• A Rollicking Band of Pirates We
• With Cat-Like Tread, Upon Our Prey We Steal
• Hush, Hush! Not a Word
• Sighing Softly to the River
• Now What is This?
• Finale

Added to 1981 Broadway revival

• My Eyes are Fully Open
• Sorry Her Lot

Recordings listed here were done in the studio specifically to release as recordings. They do not represent cast recordings of a particular production.

• Studio Cast (1929)
  George Baker , Peter Dawson , Stuart Robertson , Derek Oldham , Leo Sheffield
• Studio Cast (1958)
  Donald Adams , Jean Hindmarsh , Thomas Round , Ann Drummond-Grant , Peter Pratt
• Studio Cast (1991)
  Marilyn Hill Smith , Malcolm Rivers , Eric Roberts (i) , Philip Creasy , Susan Gorton

Frederic was as a child apprenticed to a band of tenderhearted, orphaned pirates by his nurse who, being hard of hearing, had mistaken her master's instructions to apprentice the boy to a pilot. Frederic, upon completing his 21st year, rejoices that he has fulfilled his indentures and is now free to return to respectable society. But it turns out that he was born on February 29 in leap year, and he remains apprenticed to the pirates until his 21st birthday. By the end of the opera, the pirates, a Major General who knows nothing of military strategy, his large family of beautiful but unwed daugters, and the timid constabulary all contribute to a cacophony that can be silenced only by Queen Victoria's name.

• Di Yam Gazlonim (revival title)
• Pirates! (revival title)
• The Pirates of Penzance or The Slave of Duty (full title)