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Carmen, Traviata-plus Kurt Weill's Street Scene and a new production of The Mikado. The very variety of the season, he thinks, is a tribute to an audience that cheerfully accepts City Center's small-scaled, tightly budgeted productions. "I don't have to do all the work for this audience," says he. "They don't want just to sit back and feel gorged...
...promptly withdrew to her little Oxford bedsitting room, and for ten hours each day sat scrawling appeals to Gilbert & Sullivan fans the world over, requesting their signatures for the petition she was preparing for Parliament. Seared into her mind were reported visions of Mike Todd's Hot Mikado with Katisha as an opulent, raucous blues singer, and of a Los Angeles Yum-Yum yodeling "stark naked in her bath." Soon Crusader Alderley began to get reports from the U.S. (where G. & S. operas are not protected by copyright) detailing even more flagrant abominations: a "gutbucket" Mikado with a "hula...
Governor Kuroda explained that Yasokyo (Jesus religion) was frowned on by the Mikado. Undeterred, Clark lined up his 16 students and announced firmly: "It is my intention to awake a lofty ambition in you, and to turn you into gentlemen and Christians, so that you may control your appetites and passions and thus conquer the sin of self." The Yankee educator eased the problem of appetite control by smashing all his scholars' sake bottles, made the students promise to shun both weed and wine and to glorify God. Classes began with hymns and prayers, and the first question...
...Rashomon, Kataki, Cry for Happy and The Cool Mikado are all on the way to town. The World of Suzie Wong is pulling in crowds right across the street from Flower Drum...
...made and lost nearly $1,000,000 in Chicago real estate ventures. His later success as a Broadway producer ("I believe in giving the customers a meat-and-potatoes show. Dames and comedy") brought in big money almost as fast as Todd got rid of it. The Hot Mikado (1939), Star and Garter (1942), Mexican Hayride (1944) and Up in Central Park (1945) were so successful that by 1947 Todd's creditors numbered more than 100 and sued him for more than...