Charlotte’s highly acclaimed public arts magnet school, Northwest School of the Arts, presents the comic opera, The Pirates of Penzance, at Halton Theater of CPCC, 1206 Elizabeth Avenue, on Friday, March 11th, at 7 p.m., and Saturday, March 12th, at 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Tickets range from $15 to $20 and can be purchased in advance now.
Northwest School of the Arts has been recognized internationally and is the only public arts magnet school serving Mecklenburg County students in grades 6 through 12. Students who study musical theatre, band, orchestra, technical theatre, costume design and more, all contribute to the school’s musicals.
If you haven’t seen one of NWSA’s musicals you owe it to yourself to go. You won’t believe that these are high school students. Read this review of their 2013 production of The Color Purple.
Charlotte’s highly acclaimed Northwest School of the Arts students embark upon their Winter/Fall Season this March with an uproarious production of that swashbuckling perennial favorite — THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE. In one of the most popular comic operas of all time, meet Frederic, an orphan lad who finds himself the victim of his nursemaid’s hearing impediment after she mistakenly apprentices him to a pirate instead of to a pilot. Under the terms of his apprenticeship, Frederic is bound to serve his pirate captain until his 21st birthday. Unfortunately for Frederic, he was born on February 29 in a Leap Year; and, thus, despite his moral scruples and attraction to the Major-General’s daughter Mabel, he feels himself bound as a “slave of duty” to remain a pirate until well into middle age!
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