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Pirates of Penzance 2026

Pirates of Penzance Auditions
Date:
22 November 2025
Venue: @2k Theatre, Taunton

Those interested should e-mail [email protected] with a note on the role (s)
they wish to be considered for.

References to the score are the Chappell edition
Text from the script https://gsarchive.net/pirates/pirates_lib.pdf

Mabel:
Poor Wand'ring One, from "yes tis Mabel" (pp39-45)
"Sergeant, approach" (pp24)

Frederic:
"Oh is there not one maiden" (pp36-39)
Act 1 dialogue after "Pour oh Pour", (pp1) and dialogue with Ruth before "Ah false one"
(pp4-5)

Pirate King
"Oh better far to live and die" (pp18-20)
dialogues after "Pour oh Pour" (pp1) and after "Modern Major General" (pp13-14)

Major General
"I am the very model" (pp 61-68) and "softly sighing" (pp155-158)
dialogue after "Modern Major General" pp13-14)and  after "Oh dry the glistening tear" (p17)

Ruth
"when Fredrick was a little lad" (pp16-17)
dialogue following that, (pp2-3) and after "when you had left our pirate fold" (pp21-22)

Samuel
"Here's your crowbar" (pp149-152)
Dialogues in act 1 (pp2-3)

Edith her verse in "climbing over rocky mountains", (pp29-31) and "What ought we to do"
(pp46-47) dialogue following "Climbing" (p7)

Kate her verse in "climbing over rocky mountains" (pp31-32) , and "What ought we to do" (p47) dialogue following "Climbing" (p7)

Sergeant
Dialogue p 25 leading to When a felon’s
Then "When a felon’s" (pp142-144)

Schedule

Performances
March 19 Tacchi Morris Taunton
March 20 Warehouse Theatre Ilminster
March 21 North Curry Parish Church
March 26 Stogumber Village Hall
March 27 Edington Village Hall
March 28 Bishops Lydeard Village Hall
March 30 Regal Theatre Minehead

Rehearsals
Music by arrangement with Sam Baker during Jan and Feb
Read throughs tbc in February

Floor (all in Taunton, venue tbc but likely to be @2k) Off book 26 Feb 2026
26 Feb 2026 7-9.30pm
27 Feb 2026 10-6
28 Feb 2026 10-5
1 March 2026 10-2.30
5 March 2026 7-9.30pm
6 March 2026 10-6
7 March 2026 10-5
8 March 2026 10-2.30
12 March 2026 7-9.30pm
13 March 2026 10-6
14 March 2026 10-5
15 March 2026 10-2.30
Tech 16 March 2026 tbc
Dress Stogumber Village Hall 18 March 2026
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