PIRATES! THE PENZANCE MUSICAL Original Broadway Cast Recording

AVAILABLE IN DIGITAL FORMATS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17

DUE ON CD FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14

CENTER STAGE RECORDS has announced it will release the Original Broadway Cast Recording of Pirates! The Penzance Musical in streaming and digital formats on Friday, October 17 and on CD Friday, November 14. Pirates! The Penzance Musical is the reimagined, lovingly adapted production of The Pirates of Penzance, which recently premiered on Broadway at Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, President/CEO, in memoriam; Scott Ellis, Interim Artistic Director). This jazz-infused, New Orleans-style Broadway production has music by Arthur Sullivan, libretto by W.S. Gilbert, adaptation by Rupert Holmes, orchestrations by Joseph Joubert and Daryl Waters, arrangements by Rupert Holmes and Joseph Joubert, dance arrangements by John O’Neill, music direction by Joseph Joubert, choreography by Warren Carlyle and direction by Scott Ellis. The production is conceived by Scott Ellis, Rupert Holmes, Warren Carlyle, and Joseph Joubert. The album was produced by twelve-time Emmy Award winner Michael Croiter. The CD is currently available for pre-order at www.CenterStageRecords.com.

Support for the Original Cast Recording is generously provided by David and Anita Massengill, Laurence Klurfeld, and Joele Frank.

The cast for the Broadway Original Cast Recording of Pirates! The Penzance Musical is led by Ramin Karimloo (Pirate King), Jinkx Monsoon (Ruth), and David Hyde Pierce (Gilbert/Major General Stanley), with Nicholas Barasch (Frederic), Preston Truman Boyd (Sullivan/Police Sergeant), and Samantha Williams (Mabel Stanley) with Kelly Belarmino, Maria Briggs, Cicily Daniels, Ninako Donville, Alex Dorf, Rick Faugno, Niani Feelings, Tommy Gedrich, Alex Gibson, Afra Hines, Ryo Kamibayashi, Tatiana Lofton, Nathan Lucrezio, Shina Ann Morris, Tyrone L. Robinson, Cooper Stanton, Bronwyn Tarboton, and Richard Riaz Yoder.   

The creative team for Pirates! The Penzance Musical includes scene design by Tony Award winner David Rockwell (She Loves Me, Doubt), costume design by Tony Award winner Linda Cho (The Great Gatsby, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder), lighting design by Tony Award winner Donald Holder (South Pacific, My Fair Lady, The Lion King), sound design by Tony Award nominee Mikaal Sulaiman (Macbeth,An Enemy of the People, Doubt), and hair and wig design by Charles G. LaPointe. Casting is by Jim Carnahan CSA & Jason Thinger CSA.

Pirates! The Penzance Musical opened on Thursday, April 24, 2025 for a limited engagement through July 27, 2025 at the Todd Haimes Theatre (227 West 42nd Street).

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. 

Pirates! The Penzance Musical was produced in association with James L. Nederlander, Fran and Paul Turner and ATG Productions/Gavin Kalin Productions.

The original production of Pirates! The Penzance Musical is proudly supported by Tri-State Cadillac, the Official Auto Partner of Roundabout Theatre Company, and kindly sponsored by New Orleans & Company. 

Underwriting support for the original production of Pirates! The Penzance Musical was generously provided by Salman and Vienn Al-Rashid, the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, Joele Frank and Laurence Klurfeld, and in memory of Nancy McKenna and Patsy Eagan.

ABOUT CENTER STAGE RECORDS

Center Stage Records is the new label from Broadway Records founder, Grammy Award and Tony Award winner, Van Dean. The label is dedicated to the preservation of Broadway, London, Off-Broadway, new musicals in development and theater-related solo albums. Center Stage Records premiered with the original Broadway cast recordings of How to Dance in Ohio and Gutenberg the Musical, Steven Pasquale’s Some Other Time with John Pizzarelli, and the Original London Cast Recording of Mandela the Musical. Latest and upcoming releases include the Broadway revival cast albums of Floyd Collins starring Jeremy Jordan, Once Upon a Mattress starring Sutton Foster, Lea Salonga’s Sounding Joy – The Holiday Album, JC Chasez and Jimmy Harry’s Playing with Fire, Patti LuPone’s new double album A Life in Notes, and the London recording of Alice Down the Rabbit Hole. To peruse the entire catalog, please visit CenterStageRecords.com. Follow Center Stage Records on all social platforms @centerstagercds.

ABOUT ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY 

Roundabout Theatre Company celebrates the power of theatre by spotlighting classics from the past, cultivating new works of the present, and educating minds for the future. A not-for-profit company, Roundabout fulfills that mission by producing familiar and lesser-known plays and musicals; discovering and supporting talented playwrights; reducing the barriers that can inhibit theatergoing; collaborating with a diverse team of artists; building educational experiences; and archiving over five decades of production history.

Roundabout Theatre Company presents a variety of plays and musicals on its five stages: Broadway’s Todd Haimes Theatre, Studio 54 and Stephen Sondheim Theatre, and Off-Broadway’s Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, which houses the Laura Pels Theatre and Black Box Theatre.

Roundabout Theatre Company has been working to prioritize and actively incorporate anti-racism, equity, diversity, inclusion and accountability throughout the institution. Read more about the company’s social justice progress and timeline at edi.roundabouttheatre.org. 

Roundabout productions are supported, in part, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Hochul and the New York State Legislature.

Roundabout’s 2025-2026 season includes: Archduke by Rajiv Joseph, directed by Darko Tresnjak; Chinese Republicans by Alex Lin, directed by Chay Yew; Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, book, music & lyrics by Richard O’Brien, directed by Sam Pinkleton; Fallen Angels by Noël Coward, directed by Scott Ellis; and Oedipus, created and directed by Robert Icke, produced on Broadway by Sonia Friedman Productions, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, and Patrick Catullo in association with Roundabout Theatre Company. www.roundabouttheatre.org

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