The Pirates of Penzance (film)

The Pirates of Penzance
Original theatrical poster
Directed byWilford Leach
Screenplay byWilford Leach
Based onThe Pirates of Penzance
by Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyDouglas Slocombe
Edited byAnne V. Coates
Music bySir Arthur Seymour Sullivan (from The Pirates of Penzance)
Production
companies
  • St. Michael Finance Limited
  • Timothy Burrill Productions
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release dates
  • February 18, 1983 (1983-02-18) (United States)
  • August 1983 (1983-08) (United Kingdom)
Running time
112 minutes[1]
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
Box office$694,497[2]

The Pirates of Penzance is a 1983 romantic musical comedy film written and directed by Wilford Leach based on Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879 comic opera of the same name. The film, starring Kevin Kline, Angela Lansbury, Linda Ronstadt, George Rose, and Rex Smith, is an adaptation of the 1980 Joseph Papp production of Pirates. The original Broadway cast reprised their roles in the film, except that Lansbury replaced Estelle Parsons as Ruth. The minor roles used British actors miming to their Broadway counterparts. Choreography was by Graciela Daniele. It was produced by Papp and filmed at Shepperton Studios in London.

  1. ^ "PIRATES OF PENZANCE (U)". British Board of Film Classification. July 20, 1983. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
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