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The Victorians loved a sense of duty, and this musical is subtitled " A Slave to Duty".Our hero is Frederic a young man just finishing his apprenticeship as a pirate.(It should have been a pilot but Ruth his nursemaid was hard of hearing.) Frederic cannot abide the thought of piracy but following his conscience he has been a loyal and dutiful apprentice. Today he is 21 and finished his apprenticeship. He is to leave the pirates and then he can return to bring them to justice! He has never seen a young lady, just his nursemaid Ruth, so he falls in love with the first pretty face he meets, Mabel, the daughter, (amongst many) of Major – General Stanley. The Pirates seize the daughters and plan to marry them,but they relent because the Major General pleads he is an orphan and pirates always release orphans. Frederic and Mabel leave the pirate band hoping to wed. Just as Frederic is to lead a force of reluctant police to capture the pirates he learns that he was born on the 29th February and is only five years old! |
| A paradox! He has to rejoin the pirates to finish his apprenticeship. Being a slave of duty he confesses that a punitive task force is on its way, worse, the Major-General is not an orphan. The ever-faithful Mabel decides to lead the police (with lots of "Tarantula’s") but they are all captured by the pirates because they have cat-like tread. The police implore the pirates to yield in the name of Queen Victoria. Pirates too, are slaves of duty so naturally they relent. |
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Much relieved the Major-General gives up his daughters to the pirates (the daughters are delighted!). This is doubly fortunate for the girls because the pirates are all nobles of the realm who have ‘gone wrong’. So it all works out rather well and they all take each others hearts at the end. |
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