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, in 2009 at the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston, Massachusetts, and at The Muny in St Louis, Missouri in 2012. Other Gilbert and Sullivan numbers, such as the Nightmare song from Iolanthe are interpolated. Pirates of Penzance – The Ballet! premiered in 1991 Essgee Entertainment produced an adapted version 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 All-male versions of the opera include a long-running adaptation 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. Film and TV The Pirate Movie, a 1982 musical romantic comedy film loosely based on the opera. The Pirates of Penzance, a 1983 film adaptation of Papp's Broadway production. Die Piraten, a German-language version, was premiered on German television in 1968 and starred Arleen Auger as Mabel, Gerd Nienstedt as the Pirate King and Martha Mödl as Ruth, with Franz Marszalek conducting. Mabel falls in love with the Pirate King, among other plot changes. A 2-CD set of the broadcast was issued by Gala Records in 2000. Several other television adaptations of the opera have been made, beginning in 1939. See also Our Island Home, one of the sources of the libretto for Pirates References Sources (Chapters 5 and 6) Also, five supplements, privately printed External links General The Pirates of Penzance at The Gilbert & Sullivan Archive Sullivan's autograph manuscript, 1879 1880 London theatre programme Review of the opening night by Clement Scott Papp's version of The Pirates of Penzance at the Music Theatre International website D'Oyly Carte Prompt Books at The Victoria and Albert Museum Televised scenes from Pirates, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, 1955 Lists of productions The Pirates of Penzance. Production list at Floormic.com The Pirates of Penzance at The Internet Broadway Database The Pirates of Penzance at IMDb 1879 operas Cornwall in fiction Drama Desk Award-winning musicals English comic operas English-language operas Operas adapted into films Operas by Gilbert and Sullivan Operas set in England Operas Penzance Piracy in fiction Tony Award-winning musicals