ART's 'Pirates of Penzance' is a fun trip
It's part of the charm of Gilbert & Sullivan's operettas that they can survive almost any degree of updating and parody of the original parody. In 2009, the Huntington Theatre Company offered a "Pirates! (Or, Gilbert and Sullivan Plunder'd)" that shifted "The Pirates of Penzance" from the Cornish coast to the Caribbean and turned the Pirate King into a version of Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow from the "Pirates of the Ca…