Brent Walker's series of Gilbert & Sullivan productions for "Opera World" had its hits and its misses. This is one of the misses. It does have its good points. Both Ruth and the Major General are done very well. Other than that...the cast is most certainly not a great one and the sets are distractingly bad. The worst of the cast would be Peter Allen's truly abysmal Pirate King. He seems pulled out of a Vegas act and is lost in the world of G&S. The Stradford festival did a very good production of Pirates, do yourself a favor and watch that instead.
Review of The Pirates of Penzance
The Pirates of Penzance
(1982 TV Movie)
Do yourself a favor, go with Stratford's production of Pirates.
31 August 2002