The Pirates Of Penzance

As a young child Frederic had been apprenticed to a pirate by mistake when he should have been apprenticed to a pilot Now having reached his 21st year Frederics indentures are at last over and he happily leaves the service of the pirates When Frederic meets the beautiful Mabel one of the many daughters or wards in Chancery of MajorGeneral Stanley they fall in love and decide to marry However complications arise when the pirates decide to marry the rest of the MajorGenerals daughters themselves and Frederics birthdate turns out to be not all it seems