Previous shows - Pirates of Penzance (June/July 1988)

In Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, the young pirate apprentice Frederic is about to be freed from his indentured period. The honourable Frederic, who was mistakenly apprenticed to the pirates by his partially deaf nursemaid Ruth, has decided to leave the pirate life. Now a free man, Frederic leaves for the shore. Having never seen a woman besides Ruth, he instantly falls in love with Mabel, one of the daughters of Major-General Stanley. Soon though, the pirates arrive and want to marry the rest of the Major-General's daughters. Stanley enlists the help of the police to stop the pirates. Frederic desires to help Stanley and the police protect the ladies, but soon he discovers that due to a certain paradox, he is still bound by duty to remain an apprentice to the pirates. In true G&S style, all is well in the end when it is discovered that the pirates have noble blood and would in fact be suitable husbands for Major-General Stanley's daughters.

Included in Arthur Sullivan's fantastic score are:

I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major-General • With Cat-like Tread • Poor Wand'ring One! • Oh, Is There Not One Maiden Breast? • When You Had Left Our Pirate Fold (A Paradox) • When The Foeman Bares His Steel

For Havering Music Makers' production:
Producer - Barbara Smith
Musical Director - Alan Steel
Accompanist - Stuart Rush

Havering Music Makers are an amateur society affiliated to The National Operatic and Dramatic Association and acknowledge the support of Havering Arts Council