Pirates

Question 1

Pirates

Music

Answer 1

Music - Arthur Sullivan

Question 2

Pirates

Songs

Answer 2

1. Better Far to Live and Die, 2. Climbing Over Rocky Mountain,
2. Oh, Is There Not One Maiden Breast,
3. Poor Wand’ring One!,
4. I Am The Very Model of a 6. Modern Major General,

Question 3

Pirates

Libretto

Answer 3

Libretto - William Gilbert

Question 4

Pirates

Opening

Answer 4

1879 at Fifth Avenue Theatre in NY - Copyright issues overcame by performing first show in New York

Question 5

Pirates

Story

Answer 5

This young boy Fredric apprentices to a band of pirates but he was supposed to apprentice to someone else. It is his maid that messes up so he ends up growing up with pirates and then it comes up to his 21st birthday and he is out of his apprentice and he can do whatever he wants. Now that he is against them, he is going to do everything he can to bring them down. But…Fredric is born on a leap year and he is not actually turning 21, he is turning 5 so he is not going to get out of his appretiship until is 80+. Right before he figures this out, he meets a lady and wants her to wait until he is out

Question 6

Pirates

Type of Musical

Answer 6

Operetta - precursor to later musical theatre

- classically trained singers