Next Performance
For the 60th anniversary year, NUGSS will be performing Pirates of Penzance at the Performing Arts Centre, Royal Grammar School in Jesmond, Newcastle on the 16th, 17th and 18th February 2012. More information will be posted here nearer the time.
Synopsis
Frederic was as a child apprenticed to a band of tenderhearted, orphaned pirates by his nurse who, being hard of hearing, had mistaken her master's instructions to apprentice the boy to a pilot. Frederic, upon completing his 21st year, rejoices that he has fulfilled his indentures and is now free to return to respectable society. But it turns out that he was born on February 29 in leap year, and he remains apprenticed to the pirates until his 21st birthday. By the end of the opera, the pirates, a Major General who knows nothing of military strategy, his large family of beautiful but unwed daugters, and the timid constabulary all contribute to a cacophony that can be silenced only by Queen Victoria's name.
Cast list
| Major-General Stanley | Sebastion Davidson |
| The Pirate King | Aidan Pratt |
| Samuel (his Lieutenant) | Steven Aitchison |
| Frederic (the Pirate Apprentice) | Martin Lay |
| Sergeant of Police | Andrew Watson |
| Deputy Sergeant of Police | Simon McLoughlin |
| Mabel (one of General Stanley's Daughters) | Roisin Staunton |
| Kate (one of General Stanley's Daughters) | Jessica Helyar |
| Isabel (one of General Stanley's Daughters) | Elizabeth Hamer |
| Edith (one of General Stanley's Daughters) | Anna Scott |
| Ruth (a Pirate Maid of all Work) | Rachel Alpin |
Production
| Directors | Anna Scott and Lucy Ashton |
| Musical Director | Mark Edwards |
| Deputy Musical Director | Phil Hall |
| Rehearsal Pianists | Kate Crane and Jonny Winter |
Past productions
Below is a list of all productions by NUGSS since it was established in 1952. Click on a production for information about the show, pictures, posters, programmes, videos and funny anecdotes. If you have any of the above to add from a past show you were in then please get in touch with us so that we can add them to the online archive!