They are known asThe Fabulous Singlettes, who mimic pop trios from the 1960s.

For community theatre the three part harmony can be divided up amongst a large female chorus.

After they enter, the first thing they do is sit down on the rocks and smoke cigarettes (while Daddys not looking).

All the characters re-enter and sing souped-up reprises of their signature numbers.

When Frederic was just a boy she misunderstood her employers directive and apprenticed him to a pirate instead of a pilot, as intended.

Frederic tells the Pirate King (a dashing figure who never preys on orphans since he himself has had the misfortune to be one) that his freedom will be devoted to exterminating all pirates and that it would be better for the pirates to leave before midnight when his indentures are over.

The pirates depart immediately and Frederic is left alone with Ruth, the only woman he has seen in years.

Ruth pleads with Frederic to take her with him, but her case is lost when a bevy of very young, attractive women appear.

The pirates return and Mabel warns them that their actions will not go unpunished since her father, the guardian of all of these young ladies, holds the exalted rank of Major-General.

The Major-General is forced to pretend that he is also an orphan in order to win their sympathy.

Although he fools the Pirate King, the Major-General cannot rest easy with his troubled conscience.

But Ruth and the Pirate King interrupt him with a most ingenious paradox - Frederic was born in leap year on the 29th of February and, in terms of actual birthdays, is only 5 instead of 21.

Frederic, slave of duty that he is, rejoins his former associates, and the police are left to attack the pirates on their own.

But the Sergeant of Police charges them to yield in Queen Victorias name and the pirates cannot resist this overpowering appeal.

Mabel and Frederic are happily united forever with the unqualified blessings of the Major-General.

The Pirates Of Penzance 1994 Torrent