A quick turnaround from interview to podcast episode – on this week’s On Broadway, my interview with Rupert Holmes, known for his Tony Award-winning musical, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. I spoke to him, primarily, on his adaptation of the Gilbert and Sullivan musical, The Pirates of Penzance. Retitled Pirates!, the reimaged production, which played last year on Broadway, has the setting now in the French Quarter of New Orleans. The show infuses the score with jazz, Caribbean, and blues influences.
PIRATES! THE PENZANCE MUSICAL
Gilbert & Sullivan’s pirate ship docks in New Orleans in this jazzy-bluesy vision of the crowd-pleasing classic, in an outrageously clever romp sizzling with Caribbean rhythms and French Quarter flair. With the tongue-twisting Major-General, the rabble-rousing Pirate King, newly-imagined young lovers, daring daughters, footloose pirates and fleet-footed police, there’s a shipload of musical comedy delights on board to dazzle first-timers and G&S aficionados alike.
ABOUT RUPERT HOLMES:
New York Times Top Ten Bestselling novelist-playwright-composer-arranger-screenwriter-conductor-singer-songwriter Rupert Holmes is the first person in theatrical history to solely win Tony® awards as an author, a composer and a lyricist. A two-time recipient of the coveted Edgar Award, creator and writer of AMC’s first original TV series, and #1 Billboard singer/songwriter, Rupert Holmes’ songs have been recorded by Barry Manilow, Dionne Warwick, Vanessa Williams, Melissa Manchester, Dolly Parton, Rita Coolidge, Judy Collins, Patti LuPone, opera star Renée Fleming, Frank Sinatra Jr., and most notably Barbra Streisand.
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