Spontaneous standing ovations on first two nights – Thursday and Friday

Buy your tickets now is the message – the show is almost sold out for the remaining eight nights already – ticket office is at Sean Costello’s, Abbey Street, Ballinrobe, tel 094 95 41405

Tonight’s show will be attended by Claude Michel Schönberg, who wrote the music for the show. He has also penned such classics as Lés Miserábles and Miss Saigon

Tonight’s show will also be attended by executives from Riverdance – Riverdance creators John McColgan and Moya Doherty were the ones who brought The Pirate Queen to Broadway

Many patrons are availing of the special package available in local restaurants – dinner, a free programme of the show, and onto the Auditorium in Ballinrobe Community School

About The Pirate Queen

The Pirate Queen, which tells the story of Mayo’s western warrior Grace O’Malley, features music by Alan Boublil and Claude Michel Schönberg, who penned such classics as Lés Miserábles and Miss Saigon.

Ballinrobe Musical Society chairman Pat McGovern said that Grace O’Malley remained one of the most fascinating figures of Irish history. “Under-celebrated,” he said, “she was a wild, unyielding spirit who defended her country and its traditions, defied an empire and set herself against and conventions of society and the role it prescribed for women”.

The show is being staged in association with Irish Pride, a national company with a local presence stretching over many decades.

“We have people coming from every county in Ireland. We have never had interest like this, and even though we have our first-ever ten-night run this year, we are already looking at the remaining shows being sold out,” said Society chairman Pat McGovern.

“We are very grateful to our premier sponsors Irish Pride, who have been extremely supportive. Our corporate sponsors 3, Tesco, Ashford Castle, and McHale’s Farm Machinery have also come in very strongly behind us. We are very appreciative of the support we have received from all our sponsors.”

More details on the show are available on www.BallinrobeMusicalSociety.com.