PIRATES! THE PENZANCE MUSICAL 2025 Broadway Cast Recording

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/theater/tony-awards-season-musical-songs.html

Jesse Green: Great Broadway musicals must feature great songs, but not all the great songs are found in great musicals. That’s why I collect cast albums: There are obvious gems and hidden ones. To explore that range at the end of a generally fine and unusually eclectic Broadway season, I picked a song from every show that received a Tony Award nomination in any category. (The exception: “Pirates! The Penzance Musical,” which will record its New Orleans-inflected Gilbert and Sullivan score after the awards are doled out on CBS this Sunday.)

Releases October 17 digitally and November 14 on CD! Music by Sir Arthur Sullivan, lyrics by W.S. Gilbert 

George in DC said: "I can't imagine wanting to listen to those really horrible orchestrations and new lyrics again. This is a revisal that should be forgotten as soon as possible."

 

100%!

I had a great time at the show and look forward to the cast recording.

Available for strrrrrrrreaming tomorrow!

First listen of Nicholas Barasch (Fredric) and the company performing "Good Morning, My Brothers / Pour, Oh Pour!":

The arrangements are terrible and the lyric changes even worse. It sounds lie something you would hear on Lawrence Welk show. Elevator music at its worst.



 

Updated On: 10/16/25 at 09:11 PM

I love New Orleans-style Jazz, and I love Pirates of Penzance. I also love steak and vanilla ice cream. Doesn't mean I want them on the same plate.

If you haven't caught onto the fantastic YouTube channel And Now They Sing, they just put out this video about the evolution of Pirates, from original opera to 1980 revival to 2025 revisal.