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THE ZOMBIES OF PENZANCE

New Line Theatre presents the world premiere Book and Lyrics by Scott Miller & W.S. Gilbert Music by Arthur Sullivan & John Gerdes Sept. 27-Oct.20, 2018 Marcelle Theater, St. Louis http://www.newlinetheatre.com/zoppage.html Nominated for the American Theatre Critics Association's 2018 New Play Award Purchase the 2018 live original cast recording here . Purchase the script here . Purchase the piano-vocal score here . SYNOPSIS One of Gilbert & Sullivan's best known works, The Pirates of Penzance , originally debuted in New York in 1879. What we now know is that there was an earlier, stranger draft of the show, which nobody knew about until now, with most of the same characters but a somewhat different plot. In Gilbert & Sullivan's never-before seen original draft, dated December 1878 and titled The Zombies of Penzance (with the unwieldy subtitle, At Night Come the Flesh Eaters ), Major-General Stanley is a retired zombie hunter, who doesn'