When a felon's not engaged in his employment

[@liamdysoco4832]

The way the ship just noisily crashes through the trees always gets me, especially considering the next number

[@GideonF64.9]

Despite the poor video quality you can tell this is some of the best choreography that ever saw the light of day. Fucking phenomenal.

[@ChiDavid1]

The late, rubber-limbed Tony Azito (as the Sergeant) is brilliant!

[@stephenwoehr6500]

Reminds me of John Cleese.

[@SaffronicSaffron]

I love how the Pirates, just sort of crash into the tree. it's so hilarious.

[@Rylosalex]

I wish the whole entrance song of the police force had been longer Love the Tarantara tarantara and love the way how some of the police are running out of breath for holding that "Hum" too long "But we should have thought of that before we joined the force" Makes me smile every time

[@MD-vs9ff]

Rylosalex A lot of songs were cut for this movie, and that was one of them. There's a couple of extra lines that go before "When the danger's near...". Look for the soundtrack for the theater version, it has more songs and longer veraions of the songs.

[@Rylosalex]

Yeah, yeah I found the theater soundtrack at the library got it and listened to it. Was totally surprised when I heard those extra lines.

[@ferretman6790]

I love the fact she refers to the Pirates as “Associates” “The Associates are coming!” “The Associates stole my Ship” “The Associates kidnapped my Brother”

[@ElkAndTurt]

It's because frederic was previously under employment of the pirate chief, making them his associates.

[@wallywest9257]

Girlfriend: "He's probably out there cheating and lying. Me & the boys: 3:55

[@m.rodriguez9732]

Thank you for posting this. Tony Azito (and the whole "police force") are just fantastic in this movie. Tony must've been good to get the contract he did before and after in the Broadway production. I thoroughly enjoyed his performance.

[@meilinchan7314]

It's Keystone Kops meets the Ministry of Silly Walks.

[@flamingcartman312]

Tony Azito couldn't have done it more wonderfully.

[@BroadwayDreamchild]

Probably the best character actor I have ever seen IN MY LIFE. R.I.P. Tony. We love you!!!! :') Watching this always makes me cry, because he probably would be a huge star now if he were still living. Every person I know who's seen POP has fallen in love with his singing and acting.

[@LGriff-fv6dr]

I love the way that at 0:31 we can see the expression on Tony's face without actually seeing it, brilliant acting, real shame we lost him so early.

[@KHearse87]

My high school did Pirates of Penzance 2 years ago, I was a policeman. I don't think I've ever had more fun in a role.

[@charlesajones77]

When I read this, my first thought was "There's a sequel to Pirates of Penzance?"

[@cedwardmassey]

Who could ever rival Tony Azito's performance? He was a master. ❤

[@Mariathinking]

That high note 👌👌👌👌

[@ivanrorick]

Yeah, that was really impressive.

[@q.e.d.9112]

Back in 1956 I was a 12 year old choirboy. I was one of the sisters in my Boy’s boarding school production of The Pirates of Penzance. The following year I was down for one of the fairies in Iolanthe, but my voice broke during rehearsals so I was told to just mime. I quite enjoyed the drag and the make up, but this was the fifties and boys couldn’t admit to such things after about age 7.

[@orangutansoda]

WHAT they tap dance?! Im jealous our production has a severe lack of tap

[@Falconater517]

He reminds me of Waluigi...

[@SqreakyAlex]

i can really notice that now XD

[@douglaslundin4506]

Someone needs to do an sfm of Waluigi doing this dance!

[@SaffronicSaffron]

Me to

[@gabrieltassoni5549]

A policeman’s lot is not a happy WWWAAAAAANE

[@bushhead44]

Taranta-WA

[@Rylosalex]

I just watched this with my brother tonight and I thought "Wow! This is fantastic!!" I loved the footwork, the melody of the song and the performers I love this whole scene especially the part where they come marching into the courtyard.

[@harrietamidala1691]

The dancing policemen remind of the dancing chimney sweeps from Mary Poppins.

[@Foxpawed]

3:47 and/or press 7 for the part you're most likely here for.

[@ChiDavid1]

It's very stylized. Azito was deservedly nominated for a Tony Award for the show.

[@Martin-es8mb]

Rip Tony Azito 😢😢😢

[@theclarinetjooddsandends3753]

3:55 fantastic ad lib !

[@dianaprobst3157]

"Quiet down there!" 😂

[@Seal00754]

God bless G&S. Times go by, but they still hit the nail on the head.

[@MissBenford]

Cannot WAIT to start choreographing this for my high school

[@GeneraIKurt]

The policemen gaspg for air while humming is awesome xD

[@navigatormother7023]

I sang in an amateur community version of The Mikado, as one of the alto chorus. It was one of those brilliant memories you keep forever... we had enough professionals to raise the standard to wonderful and the rest of us, mere chorus singers- learned and learned and learned. Five hour rehearsals left us breathless and perspiring for hours in winter. Just wonderful stuff, Gilbert and Sullivan- this is beautiful too!!

[@Schrodj1]

I keep watching these things over and over.

[@andrewhawkins8616]

I wish people still wrote music of this caliber.

[@Sueb18631]

There's also a live version of this out there that was filmed in Central Park in 1980 with the same cast that's pretty awesome.

[@WryNewsie]

Not entirely. I actually preferred the original sisters. Wasn’t a huge fan of Angela Lansbury being cast as Ruth, either. But yes, the original 1980 summer theater in the park production’s overwhelming success is what spurred Universal to produce the film.

[@Martin-es8mb]

​@@WryNewsieall the cast reprised their roles.

[@TheFingerbuns]

Man, I love this version of the song.

[@MakalovestheTV]

Ha, I loved this movie version as a kid, and the tarantara number is one of my favorites from the show. Thanks for sharing!

[@baenshide]

I'm uncertain Gilbert and Sullivan intended a sober drama when they wrote the script.

[@FireofSekhmet]

My school performed "Pirates of Penzance" back in March. Not too many guys tried out, and someone decided that masculinity was more important to the pirate chorus, so the policemen were all women. Somehow it worked. :P

[@seangallagher5695]

Teren tera teren tera gahhh that never will get out of my head

[@debsnotfubar]

this version has and will always be my family's favorite soooo wonderful!!!!

[@MeMyselfAndLouis]

Tony Azito really is wonderful.

[@Odonta7]

Totally brilliant!

[@itsaboutwhatsfair1532]

Here after reading True Himmler

[@laurag5244]

This is Linda Ronstadt as Mabel -- expanding genres (she sang pop-folk-rock and wonderfully!)

[@WryNewsie]

She trained for weeks when she was cast in the Delacourt theater production. For a power ballad singer, she turned in a respectable performance as a coloratura.

[@titanuranus3095]

Woah, I fully missed that it was she! What great acting.

[@Rawr17000]

I'm so excited to perform The Policeman's Song in solo. I am seriously enjoying it :P

[@googagirl]

But we should have thought of that before we joined the force. Best line ever!

[@orandulum]

I can't stop watching his limbs, they are so mesmerizing!

[@nbenefiel]

When I was a kid D’Oyle Carte would come to Detroit every summer and my dad would take me? My dad was a huge G& S fan.

[@devifitz5195]

When choir kids join the force.

[@EvilA110]

congratulations, that`s a fun role. espescially if you dance during When The Foeman Bares His Steel. The theater group I did this with told the Sarge to just stand there while she sings that huge solo. It was very awkward for her.

[@robertgross578]

From Gilbert & Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance".

[@tobiasrichardson6379]

That fucking voice is ICONIC

[@augustus4832]

Tony Azito looks a way better with that mustache that in the original musical.

[@Martin-es8mb]

Rip Tony Azito 😢😢😢

[@jnooteb1]

They wrote them as political farce. After EVERYTHING, The Major General Sings this: "I pray your pardon, ex- Pirate King. Peers will be peers, and youth will have its fling. Enjoy your rank and legislative duties. And take my daughters- all of whom are beauties!"

[@angelwonyoungie]

This one also brings back so many memories, this was also so fun to perform

[@unpampered]

Anyone detect a hint of Groucho Marx as Captain Spalding in Azito's dance?

[@joshuaplotkin8826]

They stealthily ran aground.

[@ThePorpoisepower]

If they remake this in 2020... not saying they should... but IF they did.... Sacha Baron Coen would be perfect as the Sergeant.

[@adventureswithaurora]

Oh my goodness! I love that idea. 🤣

[@Atreus21]

I wish this happened when I called the cops.

[@kaiduchaine432]

Me playing Frederick knowing nothing about the character and somehow not being able to speak

[@JamiePa1]

Notice that Mabel has just vowed to Frederich that she will be true to him until he is 21 (about 80 years). After he leaves, she sits for a few seconds, then stands and says, "No, I am brave!" It sure didn't take her long to be tempted!

[@TheIncandescence]

Fond memories of performing in Cardiff.

[@BennyLlama39]

(seeing the ship run aground) A little close to the curb...

[@smrt887911]

this is the best scene of the movie! love the officers! memories!

[@selenalee5113]

This brings back memories when I was in my high school musical 😂 I was one of the cops

[@Martin-es8mb]

Did you play the Sargent?

[@noonefromnowhere7945]

Derrick Chauvins first day in General pop : 3:55

[@artistjhan]

Live action cartoon!

[@TheZacula]

@WisemanSam599 One of the loudest songs in the production is called 'With Cat-Like Tread', and the Pirates are the least successful in the entire world. The entire play is silly satire, and so I don't see why it should be serious. True, pretending to be serious would be funny, but I like this as well if not better.

[@suzie106]

I have this aria on vinyl, but so different! This cannot be how G & S wrote it, but isn't it good!

[@andrielisilien]

As a kid I thought Tony was luigi :D

[@ilu77777777]

those policeman guys are awsome they remind me ( by their expressions ) of charlie chaplin

[@spameron7575]

Shame about the audio glitch at 1:15 "Young Frederic was - death and glory"

[@googleisgay3289]

Tony Azito is amazing. I could watch him reprise this role forever until Sunday. In fact, I have. I continue to do. I really can't believe how good he is at this what-would-be a forgettable role in a forgettable parlor opera. I really can't believe they killed him. Jesus, what a shit-show cosmos I wound up in. In my cosmos, though, Tony Azito gets to play this role, and any other role he prefers, now until the ending of the world.

[@ProdigyStepper]

i was hooked on all of the songs that had the policemen in them and after about 4 mnoths of rehab im addicted agian!

[@StarshadowMelody]

I'm only 17 and still Pirates of Penzance is an awesome thing.

[@516mao]

im 20 and nobody cares about our age

[@DanielAsberry]

Mao West 26 Can confirm, nobody give a shit, just wait till you're 23 and nobody likes you anymore.

[@StarshadowMelody]

I'm 18 now. Edit: PFFT, MIDNIGHT, FLAT.

[@Maybethistime15]

+Hawkpath1337 SAME!

[@thedaidalos]

+Hawkpath1337 P. of P. IS still awesome, especially on my birthday! Thought I was going to be 21 today, but upon closer review I am technically not yet 6 years old :(

[@didimagnin]

I was one of these srry policemen in our school's production...Tarantara!

[@GalazanCat]

I already remembered: when I was a lad (XD) I watched a catalan opereta Pirates. But until today I hadn't realized that was a catalan version of Pirates of Penzance!

[@markita929373]

love this movie!!!!!!

[@stravinsky1300]

Mabel: Sergeant, approach! Sergeant: I'm standing right in front of you!

[@thepantweaver]

I love the Keystone Kops moment!

[@Plawranc]

When the foeman bares his steel

[@archery411]

We're doing Pirates of Penzance at our school right now, and I'm a police officer, and I gotta sing this song along with one other person... it's gonna be so much fun! xD

[@Vadergeek]

If you start there, though, you miss the coolest word ever, Tarantara.

[@elirosen1391]

Some bass that police chief is!

[@ferretman6790]

“Help! Someone has been Murdered!” *Police begin singing and dancing*

[@NotQuiteUseful]

Never been a fan of Ronstadt's "Sergeant, Approach" but Azito's always a joy to watch.

[@CatherineLopez-fp4ox]

Tony Azito Was A Italian Actor He Speaks In Italian

[@Space-O-2001]

Anyone watch the police dance and think of John Cleese?

[@irmese06]

and the Marx Brothers! If you like this watch "Duck Soup"! kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqTaap2PisSlgKs

[@MidKnightPaladin]

Tarantara! indeed

[@irmese06]

22 people don't get what Tarantera means

[@bigal1292]

+WorldChampion 24 now.

[@nerdhound5891]

1 person considers knowledge as a private thing it seems.

[@JosephDutra]

I love this video, but I would like to know what Tarantera means.

[@ronskelton94]

Its the sound a trumpet makes - explained in previous song - "When the Foeman Bares His Steel"

[@twilightseven]

I loved these goofy policemen!!

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

I know I know nothing about 19th century British law or British maritime law. But, am I the only one who has found this musical perplexing that they'd send the ordinary beat cop to fight pirates rather than send the army & navy?

[@ianfinrir8724]

That's the joke

[@DarthTwilight]

I wish music and comedy were as good today as in the days of Gilbert and Sullivan.

[@Violins1345]

havent u ever heard of the element of surprise??

[@powerpetfreak23]

-nods- Tis True... Tis true...

[@harrietamidala1691]

No, it's part of the opera tradition.

[@JennayyyCx3]

best.movie.ever.

[@itsaguinness]

3:10 your welcome

[@TheZacula]

@Stantzs My friend, perhaps you need to watch a little film called 'The Assassination Bureau'. Not the most popular, I grant you, but if you can't appreciate the sarcasm, awesomeness, and outright near-contradiction that is the main character, then it is you who fail.

[@naturlasaren8343]

I've not seen anyone else comment it and I might be delirous. But wasn't there 10 constaples in When the foreman bares his steel and now there are only 6 constaples? If so, I find it hilarious

[@Wellingtonssbu]

Perhaps they fled in fear, haha

[@AkiraChan24]

that's very different

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

Anyone EVER found it strange that England would send a civilian police force out to repel a pirate attack rather than a military platoon? I'm a civilian and I know nothing about the military or police, but, this always seemed strange to me about "The Pirates of Penzance". Maybe things were different back in the late 1800s.

[@rainbowpig7376]

I think that's the point really. Police weren't exactly a massive thing back then. I don't know where thus us set but I imagine it's the Caribbean and police were really just a big city thing so no... They didn't really send police to deal with pirates. Which is why all the cops run off.

[@Marenlauder1]

RainbowPig 007 Penzance is in Cornwall in England

[@rainbowpig7376]

Well even if it is Cornwall the fact remains that police weren't exactly your go-to guys in the case of pirates

[@vespasian123456]

It's not meant to make sense, but rather to emphasise the absurd nature of the whole operetta. Being set in later 19th century England, the notion of armed pirates turning up in Cornwall would have been laughable. Furthermore, the silliness of sending a load of local bobbies to deal with them just makes the whole thing even more ridiculous.

[@larrybrennan1463]

Alex Bliss Gilbertian logic at its finest!

[@ProdigyStepper]

wouldn't a police force like that just make you feel safer?

[@jimraw1]

The Pirate Movie - it came out in 1982 starring Kristy McNichol and Christopher Atkins. Its HORRIBLE -