Due to popular response, the UALR Opera Theatre has expanded the performance schedule for the spring production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance. The run opens at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 10, with a gala premiere benefiting the Homer T. and Betty U. Jones Opera and Voice Endowment.

Tickets to the premiere are a tax-deductible $50 and include a champagne reception following the performance.

Additional performances are 8 p.m. Saturday, April 14, and 3 p.m. Sunday, April 15. Tickets to these two performances are $10 for general admission. Admission for UALR students is free to all performances.

For further information and ticket reservations, please call (501) 569-8993.

“The Pirates of Penzance is probably the best of all the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas,” said Edward Crafts, director of the UALR Opera Theatre. “It has wonderfully tuneful music, a whole cast of whimsically eccentric characters, and its second act is even better than the first – something very rare in the theater.”