Word: mikados
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first of this year two Manhattan producers-Michael Todd and Alfred de Liagre Jr.-were planning separate swing productions of The Mikado on Broadway. When the Federal Theatre decided to bring its own production East, de Liagre bowed himself out, but Todd, charging WPA with obstructing private enterprise, accelerated his plans, engaged Hoofer Bill Robinson for the title role. Promptly the Federal Theatre closed its show in Chicago, last week opened it-three weeks ahead of Todd's-in Manhattan...
...Broadway, as in Chicago, the swing Mikado became overnight a smash hit. But Broadway was not seriously shaken. For in spite of all temptations to run wild with syncopations, the Federal Theatre's Mikado remains an English one. Four times the show's husky-duskies break out into a rash of swing, but otherwise they play The Mikado straight. They provide a pleasant, professional performance that can stand on its own legs; but with the D'Oyly Carte troupe providing a subtler and more finished show a few blocks away, daring would have been better than diffidence...
...what The Mikado loses on the roundabouts it never quite makes up on the swing. The audience got what it came for only when the Three Little Maids from School strutted what they had learned there, when the Mikado (Edward Fraction) bust out into a cakewalk, when the flowers that bloomed in the spring gave way to a jamboree that had nothing to do with the case, but proved mighty, mighty tra-la. The Federal Theatre boldly moved The Mikado from Japan to the South Seas. It should have been bolder still and moved it, shag and shaggage, to Harlem...
...After protesting the ban on Negro Singer Marian Anderson's appearance in Washington, Mrs. Roosevelt pointedly attended Negro shows two nights running: Harlempress Ethel Waters' Mamba's Daughters, the all-Negro Mikado...
...After protesting the ban on Negro Singer Marian Anderson's appearance in Washington, Mrs. Roosevelt pointedly attended Negero shows two nights running: Harlempress Ethel Waters' Mamba's Daughters, the all-Negro Mikado...