The Pittsburgh Savoyards, Inc. is a semiprofessional, community-based, non-profit theater company funded primarily by local contributions and ticket sales.
We operate for the purposes of perpetuating the heritage of Gilbert & Sullivan comic operas, and providing a hands-on opportunity for interested persons to learn about and experience musical theater. While our focus is the performance of the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, we occasionally perform non-Gilbert and Sullivan concerts and other composers’ comic operas, as well as other historical plays. The Company has been in existence since 1938, and is informally affiliated with a number of similar groups throughout the country.
As a G&S fan I've heard this patter hundreds of times and hundreds of interpretations and this is definitely in the top rankings. His elocution and mannerisms completely embrace Major-General Stanley and his performance surprised me with delight. Very, very well done Mr. Mosley and congratulations to the stunning cast as well.
The true Englishman was right there in front of us for many years, yet Mr Deadeye had been nothing more but a seaman that was just doing his job but instead of the rest of the operas treating deadeye like utter scum he finally got what he deserved so to then I say Thank you for this particular opera giving deadeye a proper ending
The internet is something else. I get interested in opera. I look it up online. The next thing you know, I'm grooving out to a clip from a Pittsburgh theater company's production of Pirates of Penzance. And it's good!
Really amazing performance, to sing that fast, do gestures and dance is exceptional. We are singing this with our choir and I’m just managing whilst reading the lyrics. Bravo 👏
Great ensemble singing. But WHYYYY is G&S doomed forever to have its spoken lyrics grotesquely over-pronounced (one random example: "I am much DEEE-STRESSSED to see your lordship in this CON-DI-SHUNNN"... ) while its sung words are so often swallowed. FFS folks, just speak the dialogue as you would, say, Bernard Shaw or even Oscar Wilde.... You're entertaining an audience, not carrying out a sound check on a very old radio system.
The gimmick where one of the major general's daughter says 'orange' is a delightful addition. If the English language evolves, hopefully it will spare "orange" from any rhyming words.
That was truly entertaining. I can’t imagine how much time is involved in getting those verses all memorized and sung at that pace. The lead singer is fantastic in my opinion and the overall performance was terrific. Well done by all.👍👍🇨🇦
Good singer but its quite slow compared to many other productions. But how come none of his children are black? If your gonna race swap characters, then you might as well make his children make sense.
I can't praise this cast and orchestra enough. I've never seen the whole play, just lean towards this song. But, please, don't let that understate how awesome you all are. Can I still see this show?
