OK, tomorrow on April 10, 2008, it's opening night at my school for the musical that I'm in. It's called Pirates of Penzance

The story is about a bunch of pirates who roam throughout the British Empire and a boy named Fredrick, who is the Pirate King's apprentice. The story starts when Fredrick turns 21-years-old and is out of his indentures to the pirates. However, it is later revealed to the audience that Ruth, the pirate "maid-of-all-works" (and Fredrick's nursery maid since he was a baby) didn't quite listen clearly to Fred's father when he said "apprentice my boy to a ship's pilot" Ruth accidentally apprenticed young Fred to a pirate However, Fred already knew of this since the beginning and only stayed with the pirates because he believed that it was his indentured duty to stay and fulfill his apprenticeship with the pirates and that he was a "slave of duty". Promising to exterminate his ex-pirate crew now that he is out of his piratical indentures, he leaves the crew and later falls in love with Mabel, the youngest (of MANY) daughters of a British Major General. (And, as you can already guess. Pirates and Military don't get along well.) The pirates follow Fred and immediately try to force Mabel's sisters to marry them. Fred and Mabel (who fall in love within five minutes after meeting each other e_e; ) return after wooing in a cave and Mabel threatens the pirates that her father is a Major General. The Major General introduced himself to the fearful pirates. Now, the pirates are all orphans who made it a rule to never attack fellow orphans or produce ill-tidings to fellow orphans. It is told in the beginning that the crew of the past few ships that the pirates captured claimed to be orphans. (It's probably known by many people of the pirate crew's weakness). Now, the Major General knows also and he claims on the (false) grounds that he is an orphan.

I won't spoil the rest of the story for you. Look up the play on Wikipedia.org or on YouTube.com for info and actual performances.

The pirate crew is a really humorous bunch of men and the whole play is considered to be a romantic-comedy.

Oh, and my part is a solo (which is singing, since this is a musical) and part as Samuel, the pirate lieutenant of the crew. I have a few lines and solo singing parts within the play.

I hope the entire cast (including myself) do good tomorrow. Tonight is our final rehearsal until opening night and I hope everything goes down according to plan.

Wish me to break a leg~!!