Various Artists

Rupert Holmes' delightfully witty and joyful adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance - reset to New Orleans with all of the jazz flavor that implies - comes to CD and digital.  The Tony Award-nominated production stars Ramin Karimloo as The Pirate King, David Hyde Pierce as (the very model of a modern) Major General Stanley, Jinkx Monsoon as Ruth, Samantha Williams as Mabel, and Nicholas Barasch as Frederic.​