Word: mikado
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rambunctious Mikado is set in modern-day Japan
...lady was so shaken she had difficulty keeping hold of her stainless-steel walker as she made her way around the stage entrance of Chicago's Lyric Opera last week. A musician friend spotted her and inquired how she had enjoyed this new, undeniably upstart production of The Mikado. "Well," she said, mustering her best backstage diplomacy, "it certainly must be fun to do." "Oh, yeah," he agreed. "It's crazy...
...real leftists; their organization has got to be come kind of right-wing front to discredit the left." He repeatedly assures me personally that the Spartacist League is a "cop front." Likewise, many would have as believe, Leon Trotsky was an agent of the Germani Emperor, of the Mikado, of Hitler...
...MANY judgemental errors mar the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players fall production at the Agassiz Theatre. Their poor choice of opera, lackadaisical musical and dramatic staging, and inconsistent performing spoil the fun for everyone. Even G&S aficionados who ordinarily revel in riproarious productions of favorites like The Mikado and the H.M.S. Pinafore--will have a hard time sitting through this long and uninspired production of Utopia Limited or Flowers of Progress. We watch the operetta wilt before our eyes...
...self-employed street vendor. The main complaint about the budget is that it fails to take strong measures to combat unemployment, now at a record 3 million (a rate of nearly 13%) and' still rising. Labor Party Leader Michael Foot, borrowing from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, scorned Howe's cost-and-balance sheet as "a thing of shreds and patches." The government, he said, still showed "no proper understanding of the scale of the catastrophe which has befallen our country and our people...