The Pirates of Penzance - Adaptations

Adaptations

• Di Yam Gazlonim, a Yiddish adaptation of Pirates by Al Grand that continues to be performed in North America. The 2006 production at the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene was nominated for the 2007 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival. The Montreal Express wrote in 2009, "Grand's adaptation is a delightfully whimsical treatment".
• The Parson's Pirates by Opera della Luna
• The Pirate Movie
• Pirates! Or, Gilbert And Sullivan Plunder'd (2006), is a musical comedy set on a Caribbean island, involving a voodoo curse that makes the pirates "landsick". It was first presented 1 November 2006 at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut, then in 2007 at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey, and in 2009 at the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston, Massachusetts. Other Gilbert and Sullivan numbers, such as the Nightmare song from Iolanthe are interpolated.
• Pirates of Penzance – The Ballet!
• Essgee Entertainment produced an adapted version of Pirates in 1994 in Australia and New Zealand. Their producer, Simon Gallaher (Frederic in the Australian Papp production), produced another adaptation of Pirates that toured Australia from 2001 to 2003
• The Pirates of Penzance (1983 film), a film version of Papp's Broadway production.
• Several television adaptations of the opera have been made, beginning in 1939
• Recent all-male versions of the opera include a long-running adaption by Sasha Regan at the Union Theatre in 2009, which transferred to Wilton's Music Hall in London in 2010 and toured in Australia in 2012.