The Pirates of Penzance board the Plainfield Opera House and steer her toward laughs for the whole family, the morning before they swarm the decks of Goddard's Haybarn Theater for an April 1 Pirates & Fools Gala. The Friday night Gala is a fundraiser for the Initiative, a Vermont Waldorf High School where our cast and crew study when not busy plundering on the high seas. But Thursday's matinee is a more family-friendly, admission-by-donation preview of the show, which also tours Burlington, Johnson and Hardwick the week of March 28. See InitiativeWaldorf.org/gala for details, to reserve Gala tickets, or to support this scurvy crew getting an accessible-to-all Waldorf high school education. Who knows, maybe they'll even grow up to be fine upstanding landlubbers some day!