Word: mikado
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GILBERT and Sullivan operetta is like sex: everyone has his favorite way of doing it, and no other way quite satisfies him. Furthermore, watching other people do it has a way of being very boring. Until last night, I thought that my favorite way of doing the Mikado was the classic D'Oyly Carte Company production which starred Martyn Gree. Now, I'm not so sure...
...first time, which on the face of it would seem impossible. He shows his versatility in the second act as a sniveling aspirant to the judgeship, the pathetic nephew of the Fat Prince (Harvey Cushing). Cushing comes across with a very funny performance in his own right as a Mikado-like royal butt-licker/petty intriguer...