Word: mikado
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Accompanied by a piano and a Hammond organ, a 23-member company calling itself American Savoyards does a different Gilbert & Sullivan operetta each week, has won so large a following that it has already staged second repeat performances of H.M.S. Pinafore, The Mikado and The Pirates of Penzance. An idea of rare originality is realized in The Fantasticks, a musical in masque form based on Rostand's Les Romanesques. Since last spring, Jerome Kern's Leave It to Jane (1917) has been exploiting a rich vein of nostalgia: snowy-browed patrons go back and back again, are beginning...
Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado with some startling un-type casting: Groucho Marx as Ko-Ko, Helen Traubel as Katisha, Stirling Holloway as Poo-Bah and Dennis King as the Mikado. Color...
...first, Ritchie thought that vandals had broken into Agassiz. The truth, he discovered was that an order by a Radcliffe Operating Services superintendent to take down The Mikado set had been "misunderstood." Radcliffe has admitted responsibility for the damage and will pay for reconstruction of the set, valued...