The Pirates of Penzance
![[Tim Curry]](pirofpz.jpg)
Revival of the light opera by W.S. Gilbert and A. Sullivan
I'm not even going to try to explain the plot (?) of this,
I'm going to give you several reviews of Tim instead:
Daily Mail: The Pirate King (Tim Curry) is pure Errol Flynn,
flashing a neon smile that is filled with teeth designed to
carry a cutlass.
Daily Telegraph: The superbly comic Tim Curry's Pirate King
is ... so exuberant he buckles his own swash. Teeth-a-gleem
bouncing triumphantly from trampolines or felling his entire
crew at a stroke, he yet cannot draw a sword without cutting
himself or falling flat.
Spectator: Tim Curry, grasping the best chance he has had
since he was a Translyvanian trans-sexual, swaggers with such
confidence that he can send himself up, then swagger again--
the necessary central star performance.
TC manages a sardonic virility as the Pirate King.
The pirates, under the braggadocio leadership of TC's
public-school poseur and fop are terrific to look at
and listen to.
TC thrusts and poses to great effect.
...TC's wickedly dashing Pirate King.
TC takes the enunciatory confusion between 'orphan'
and 'often' as the key to his plum-voiced, athletic
Pirate King.
A strutting rock-demon of entertaining sexual candor.
TC, the VERY model of a modern Pirate King.
Sylvester McCoy and Bonnie Langford played the 7th Dr. Who
and the companion of the 6th Dr. Who, respectively.