Word: ko
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Tasaki gets the old and new Japans squared off against each other by rigging up two brother & sister teams of near-vaudeville quality. Ko-ume, the gorgeous and traditional geisha, can't hope to land Minoru, the weakling son of a count. The girl who successfully bucks Ko-ume is rich, intelligent, beautiful, and a nobleman's daughter besides. Ko-ume naturally does the natural thing: she hops off a cliff. Ko-ume's brother Takeo is something else, a young peasant back from the infantry whose earthiness envelops the count's liberal daughter before...
...most marked change from the traditional Mikado--besides the increased importance of the onstage chorus--is the rather unusual interpretation of two of the principals, Ko-Ko and Pooh-Bah. Ko-Ko is, and always has been, a shy, introverted fellow, but Allan Miller a bit overdoes his meekness, with the result that we miss the slight hamming which ordinarily characterizes the Lord High Executioner. Barry Pennington's Pooh-Bah, however, is also a dead-pan job, but is so superbly done that it at times steals the stage from Ko-Ko...
...died before this project could be carried out, at 75, of a heart attack, while swimming in a pool on his country estate. The last verse he wrote was an encore for Ko-Ko's song about those people who "never would be missed...
...ROBINSON KO's ELLIS IN FIRST...
...KO'd Jeffrey in second round...