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...bright and cheerful production the Winthrop House Music Society gives full due to the Mikado's reputation as the most famous of the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. Because this is such a well known musical, the Winthrop players are in a position like the young orator assigned to give Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty..."--he must be better than good or he will be disappointing. Winthrop's Mikado is better than good...
Like most of Gilbert's plots, the Mikado is filled with strange twists and stranger characters. There is the wandering minstrel who is actually of the royalty, the old maid with an "irresistable right elbow," the axeman who can't stand the thought of head-chopping, and the bureaucrat who fills most every job in town, including officially checking up on his own corruption. This fellow, the Lord High Everything, is the best of the show, delightfully played by Thomas Whitbread. He is perfectly pompous, and his gift of timing makes even mundane lines amusing...
Coinciding with this improved academic performance is the growing interest, part of a general Harvard awakening, of Winthrop men in their two annual plays: the House play given before the Christmas recess and the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, which this year will be The Mikado. The latter production, currently being rehearsed, has obtained expanded theatrical facilities and as a result will be a much more ambitious and lavish undertaking than operetta in previous years...
Sullivan: Music to Shakespeare's Tempest (Vienna Orchestral Society, conducted by F. Charles Adler; Unicorn). The composer of H.M.S. Pinafore, The Mikado, etc. finished this music in the freshness of his 20th year, and caused his betters to call him a second Mendelssohn. It is easy to see why, although admirers of his operettas will not complain about his later career...
...with intellectual pretensions named Marsha Zelenko. Marsha lives with her parents in an apartment decorated with Mexican copper plates, Chinese screens and African masks. Papa Zelenko strums the balalaika: Mama Zelenko pounds out Bach on the piano. After Margie scores a hit in a Hunter College production of The Mikado, Marsha gets her a job as dramatic coach at a children's camp in the Adirondacks. Across the lake is an adult-resort camp named South Wind, and South Wind, Mama Morgenstern snorts, is nothing less than Sodom...