Title: Don't buy this version
Product review: If you're looking to buy a copy of Pirates of Penzance for some light-hearted family entertainment, get the 1983 movie version.If you're a hard-core G&S; fan and you want your kids' first exposure to the music of Pirates to be complete and top-quality, get the D'Oly Carte CD.If you seek the thrill and energy of audience-cast interaction, attend a live performance. Pirates is popular enough that you should be able to find someone performing it within a day's drive.Better yet, do all three. :- )But unless you were there in the Central Park audience in 1980 (or for some other reason this specific performance holds sentimental value for you), don't pay money for this DVD. It really doesn't do justice to either the outstanding performance of the Broadway cast or what is arguably the masterpiece of Gilbert & Sullivan's works.
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