Theater review
Pirates! Penzung musician
The title “Pirates! The Penzance Musical” is a love. What, exactly, is the musician Pinzans?
Do not give this sugar-covered sugar, Smile-A-SECOND Broadway shows the hook very quickly. The only “ArrRgh” comes from the theater.
The SlaPhaPPY revival, which was re -formulated to “The Pirates of Penzance”, which opened Thursday night at the Todd Haimes Theater, has nothing to do with the coast of England. It turns ridiculous work about 2800 nautical miles west to New Orleans, Louisiana.
If I think “Penzance” is on the pavilion, I think that the masses remind that they do not see “Caribbean Pirates: on Tides Stranger – The Musical or” Captain Phillips Live! ” They get the same favorite Gilbert and Sullivan songs, only with the development of the French neighborhood.
Continental jumps dust off the 145 -year -old opera and gives them an active attraction from swing music and Ragtime music, and theater is brighter by hot, fixed organic pollutants of purple, yellow and fiery red.
The director Scott Elice was not the pioneer in the way in which Joseph Bab was revived in 1980, but he has always the same unique spirit-and a silly story always.
There is a naive pirate trainee Friedrich (Nicholas Parash), who is 21 years old (or so he believes), just to know that his life is obligatory for slaves towards Rogez Navy was the result of an administrative error.
Years ago, Weird Ruth (Jinkx Monsoon), the only woman he met, was mistakenly mistaken Farid Abi, saying “PIRATE”. Shout.
Cronier, and his enemies later, are the ship full of clumsy “orphans”, led by the Pirate Pirate King (Ramin Karimlo). Loudly and fooled easily, it is far from the best Swashbuckles tools in the world.
The pioneering general (David Hyde Pierce) and his young daughters-including Maple (Samantha Williams)-appointed Frederick's eyes from his head, and wedding bells in his ears.
However, the plot falls next to this point, which is why this substance can stand in front of any launch to a large extent as long as the performance artists can sing hell from it and sell the punching line.
All of them can. Especially great is the reckless Hyde Pearce, “I am the model of the modern general.” It is Niles Crane if he retires in the villages in Florida. His distinctive melody, the most famous in the show, did not touch the creative team wisely. And kill.
Not more than that – maybe cortex – is “Rupaul's Drag Race” Monsoon's Monsoick Ruth. It chews the scene the way you want. “When Friedrich was a boy, a boy,” on the yarn piano was Lucy and Aja at the chocolate factory.
Parash, who often played the role of the strange owner, has become a winning romantic opportunities. Friedrich is innocent and beloved, and most importantly, he does not head. And karimloo, although it is not the funniest king at all, it seems that the part swinging from a rope and threatening rhythms like Canon Fire.
Now, some Quibbles Quaint.
I am not a summary, but there are couples changes from Elis and Adapter Rupert Holmes that are not sailing as well as others.
Several words have been updated, which is good. It is not uncommon that they have been crammed into the treasure box from the unnecessary background to the exciting karimloo otherwise, “I am the King of Pirates!” This makes it complicated and difficult to follow.
The duo also dealt with two songs from Jilbert and Sullivan. One of these, “We are sailing in the blue ocean”, at the end of the first chapter is a wonderful addition that sends the audience to a break on a height.
And the other, a conclusion outside the scope of nothing, turns wrongly “because he is an English man” to “we are all from another place.”
The search for an important message in “The Pirates of Penzance” is like an attempt to find the lost city of Atlantis. It will never happen. Just a wedding and dance dance.
But what is two minutes in music otherwise, wonderfully sang, hysterical and trivial?
These days in Broadway, this is a glorious thing.
