Word: mikado
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...Chicago last September the Federal Theatre poured old wine into a new bottle and got the whole town tipsy. Their Mikado, with an all-Negro cast, a South Sea Island setting and swing interpolations, became a smash hit overnight, in five months broke all Federal Theatre records by playing to 250,000 people and clearing...
...greatest money-makers in the history of the theatre, the Gilbert & Sullivan operas today are finding new ways of striking gold. In Chicago an all-Negro Federal Theatre Mikado, set to swing, has the town by the ears. Last month Britain's G. & S. Films, Ltd. released The Mikado in Technicolor-the first full-length cinema version of a Gilbert & Sullivan opera in history...
...last week the D'Oyly Carters had given, at least once, every opera in their current repertory. Each production (The Pirates of Penzance, Trial by Jury, The Mikado, Iolanthe, H. M. S. Pinafore, Cox and Box, The Gondoliers, The Yeomen of the Guard, Patience) was velvety and letter-perfect as ever. To the irreverent, there might be something a trifle ritualistic about the performances, as though the matter in hand were sacred music rather than light opera; but the devout could only praise Heaven that nothing had been changed, that not a single present-day allusion had been adlibbed...
...mild crisis has colored the D'Oyly Carters' present visit. Several Broadway critics accused Martyn Green, the company's chief comic, of prancing, capering, grimacing too much as Ko-Ko in The Mikado-"putting the horseplay before the D'Oyly Carte," as Critic John Anderson referred to it. To this the Olympian D'Oyly Carters made no answer, merely continued to play, night after night, to standees...
...this Playwright Allvine has strung together in a series of scenes which include chunks of H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, introduce canny Impresario D'Oyly Carte, and evoke the artistic life of Victorian London. To garnish his text, Allvine has cribbed all the celebrated remarks of the day, making his chatter sound at times like a page from Bartlett's Quotations: Bernard Shaw pipes up with ''Some day Wagner will rank with Shakespeare and Shaw," Queen Victoria freezes her guests with "We are not amused," Whistler snubs Wilde with "You will, Oscar...