What: The Royal Pyrate
Where: Waterfront Barge Museum
290 Conover St.
Brooklyn, NY
Who: Recommended for Ages 15 and Up
When: This event took place on August 24 & August 25, 2025
The Royal Pyrate is a musical about the relationship between the Pirate Black Sam Bellamy and Mary Hallett. A concert version of the show was recently staged on board the Waterfront Barge Museum, a Brooklyn museum that used to be a working barge on the Hudson River. There could not have been a more appropriate venue for this show not only was the show actually on a boat but the occasional rocking really added to the sense of time and place and plunged the audience fully into the story.
The show was as rollicking an adventure as you'd expect a pirate musical to be with a surprisingly sweet love story at its center. The couple's chemistry as played by Scott Stangland and Jordan Kai Burnett was clear. Stangland gave the ruthless pirate a deeply compassionate core. Burnett's Mary was feisty but deeply true to her love. They were joined by Lauren Molina as the audacious Paulsgrave Williams a loyal member of Sam's crew and Eddie Cooper as both the notorious Blackbeard and the self-righteous, Reverand Treat. The band members skillfully and at times hilariously filled as various other crew members and more.
The score was a mix of rock songs and old-time sea chanteys with a couple of sweet ballads thrown in as well. Some of the nicest numbers were the duets between Sam and Mary. The songs in general were a big part of the general joyfulness and fun of the entire evening.
And that's our view. For more about The Royal Pyrate, go to https://waterfrontmuseum.org/event/the-royal-pyrate/2024-08-24/
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