Word: mikado
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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University and Cambridge police yesterday were still investigating Saturday night's robbery of members of the cast of "The Mikado" in Winthrop House, but could announce no progress...
Meanwhile, Bruce R. Recker '52, producer of "The Mikado," said that two cast members yesterday reported the theft of an overcoat and a suitcoat, bringing the total loss to over $300. Over $200 worth of coats, suits, ties, pocketbooks, and records were first reported stolen Saturday night...
While virtue triumphed in the last act of Winthrop's "Mikado" last Saturday night, vice was flourishing ten yards away in the cast's dressing room...
Gilbert and Sullivan has once more come to Cambridge, this time in a delightful production of the one sure-fire hit of them all, The Mikado. Enlivened by the sparkling choreography of Adele Hugo, the Winthrop House Musical Society has presented a lively and original interpretation of the fantasy of love and intrigue in Titipu. Best of all, it has managed to compress on the tiny stage of the Winthrop Junior Common Room a great deal more activity than is usually seen in amateur Gilbert and Sullivan productions...
...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...