2024-2025 50th Anniversary Season
The Pirates of Penzance
Saturday, January 4, 2025 - 2 PM & 7:30 PM
Sunday, January 5, 2025 - 3 PM
Saturday, January 11, 2025 - 2 PM & 7:30 PM
Sunday, January 12, 2025 - 3 PM
Everyone has pretended to be a pirate at some point. Set sail with this classic comedy that boasts one of the most famous patter songs in musical theatre history. On the coast of Cornwall, a band of tenderhearted pirates celebrates the coming of age of Frederic, who was mistakenly apprenticed to the pirates until his 21st birthday. Now, Frederic has vowed to devote his life to
the extermination of piracy - until a ludicrous leap year snag threatens to keep him apprenticed to the pirates for life! Throw in a bevy of beauties, a brash Pirate King, the delightfully stuff y Major-General Stanley and you’ve got what The New York Times calls “AN ENDEARING PRODUCTION WITH HIGH MUSICAL STANDARDS AND SPIRITED PERFORMANCES.”
Run Time: 2 hours and 40 minutes with one intermission
Iolanthe
Saturday, April 5, 2025 - 2 PM & 7:30 PM
Sunday, April 6, 2025 - 3 PM
When mixing it up with mere mortal politicians, lighter spirits can pay a heavy price. Just ask the fairy Iolanthe, banished 25 years ago for marrying a Peer of the Parliament. But now the Fairy Queen has granted her a full pardon, and Iolanthe’s back in town, along with her son Strephon. He’s half fairy, half mortal, and totally in love—as is the Lord Chancellor and every other Peer…with the very same girl! It’s certainly not politics as usual, as the affairs of state in fairyland take center stage, the tasty tunes take wing and hilarity takes the day.
Run Time: 2 hours and 40 minutes with one intermission
All performances at the Gerald W. Lynch Theatre at John Jay College
524 West 59th Street, New York, NY (Between 10th and 11th Avenues)
while our home at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College undergoes renovations