Word: mikado
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trademarks of a Peter Sellars production are that it's fresh, different, full of gags and surprises. Sellars did The Mikado with a character vrooming around on a motorcycle, and he set Handel's Orlando at the Kennedy Space Center. But a question remains: Do the elegant and aristocratic operas of Mozart really need to be jazzed up, gagged up, camped up and wrestled into the postmodern...
...stage to explain that Ida has run out on her engagement to Prince Hilarion. His amusing gestures and grimaces demonstrate why he has been the mainstay of several Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players' shows. Bamberger most recently starred as King Pooh-Ba in the fall production of The Mikado...
...more would spoil the surprise. Suffice it to say that this production offers many visual treats, from outstandingly silly dances to the Mikado's entrance, which can only be described as sidesplitting in its humorous effect...
Bald, bellowing and looking like Geoffrey Holder in the 7-Up commercials ("Crisp and clean, no caffeine, ha ha ha!"), Quist's Mikado is truly hilarious. His effervescent "Let the punishment fit the crime" is one of the funniest moments of the production...
Aficionados of lighting effects might be a bit disappointed by the production. But between pertinent parody and near-perfect performance, The Mikado is definitely worth seeing...