This new musical flips The Pirates of Penzance upside-down, setting it in an early 1930s Hollywood studio during the filming of the Gilbert and Sullivan masterpiece. A hodgepodge of talent has been assembled, including silent film has-beens with terrible voices, brilliant vocalists with “faces for radio” who provide the actors’ dialogue and singing, and an over-worked crew who return in Act II as members of the tap-dancing Los Angeles Police Department. The original’s terms of indenture have been replaced by nefarious artists’ contracts leading to mutiny and uproarious mayhem!