New Old Theater
Baltimore MD/Washington, DC
United States
JOLLY ROGER
3pm April 21 and 22, 2008
On board Liberty Ship John W. Brown at the Broadway Pier (Foot of Broadway) Fell's Point (Baltimore) during the Privateer Festival!!!
No tickets required.
Admission to the performance is by donation, with a sliding scale. Suggested donation $15. Donations of other amounts also accepted. Note: Our show is just as family friendly as the rest of the festival!
We hope that seeing JOLLY ROGER on board will inspire visitors to make additional cash donations to Project Liberty Ship!
Meanwhile, New Old Theater asks that our friends and supporters make a separate donation directly to New Old Theater to offset production expenses.
Help NEW OLD THEATER provide artist stipends for the cast of JOLLY ROGER, and music score rentals!
JOLLY ROGER is the most recent piece New Old Theater has ever presented.
Almost unknown in the US and rarely performed anywhere, JOLLY ROGER arrives aboard the Liberty Ship John W. Brown, just in time for the Fell’s Point Privateer Festival in 2018. This strange and delightful English operetta from 1933 offers Pirates, a ruthless Governor of Jamaica, and multiple romances that must prevail over terrible adversities!
The music is somewhat reminiscent of Gilbert and Sullivan from a generation earlier, but composer Walter Leigh adds some unique touches, blending them with the greatest craftsmanship.
Sadly, we have few examples of Leigh's music, as he was killed at Tobruk in 1942, nine years after the debut of Jolly Roger and the same year that John W. Brown was launched.
Celebrate Leigh's musical spirit in a story by Clinton-Baddeley and Scobie Mackenzie on board a real WWII vessel of the kind which saved Britain from starvation during the War, and Western Europe after the war.
Baltimore MD/Washington, DC
United States