On tour in 2026 - The Pirates of Penzance
The West Yorkshire Savoyards continue to build up a big following across Yorkshire – in 2023 total audiences of around 1000 thrilled to The Gondoliers with house-full signs on the door. More than 900 came to see our 2024 production - Ruddigore, and our 2025 production of Iolanthe
In 2026 we will be staging one of the favourite Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, the swashbuckling ‘Pirates of Penzance’
See below for details of rehearsal dates and tour dates.
Provisional dates for our 2026 touring production of The Pirates of Penzance:
Saturday 5 September 2026, 7.30pm - Bingley Arts Centre
Saturday 12 September 2026, 7.30pm – Settle Victoria Hall
Sunday 20 September, 2026, 3pm – Whitby Pavilion Theatre
Saturday 26 September 2026, 3pm (matinee) and 7.30pm – Richmond Georgian Theatre Royal
Saturday 3 October 2026, 7.30pm – Penistone Paramount Theatre
Auditions
Auditions we will be held at Boothtown Methodist Church, 39 Boothtown Rd, Halifax HX3 6LR, on Saturday 21 February (between 11am and 4pm). Below are the audition requirements for each of the principal roles. If you would like to audition please let us know via the ‘Contact Us’ page on this website, or by emailing jhgcarter@aol.com. Closing date for offering to audition is Sunday 8 February. Please do not offer to audition if you are unable to attend rehearsals - as set out below.
Rehearsals 2026
All rehearsals will beheld at Boothtown Methodist Church.
Music rehearsals
Monday 15 June 7.30pm- 10pm - everyone; Wednesday 17 June 7.30pm -Principals
Monday 22 June 7.30pm -chorus ; Wednesday 24 June, 7.30pm - Principals
Monday 29 June 7.30pm - All
Floor Rehearsals
A detailed floor rehearsal schedule to follow (not everyone will be required at all rehearsals). We will begin floor rehearsals on:
Saturday 22nd August (10.30pm - 4.30pm) , Sunday 23rd August (1pm - 4.30pm)
Monday to Friday 24th - 28th August at 7.30pm., Saturday 29 August (10.30pm - 4.30pm)
Then Tuesday 1 September to Friday 4 September at 7.30pm