Word: mikados
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...monuments will be erected to the Broadway season of 1939-40. In solid achievement, it proved the weakest in years. It lacked also exciting experiment-had nothing to compare with the Sceneryless Stage, a one-act Julius Caesar, Pins and Needles, Hellzapoppin, The Swing Mikado. Few, even, of its many failures were honorable. It had only one distinction: its jokes were good. The Man Who Came to Dinner, Life with Father, The Male Animal, Morning's at Seven and two or three musical shows made it an excellent season for comedy...
Inside this framework Michael Todd (who last year produced The Hot Mikado and this year The Streets of Paris at the Fair) put on a show which, at 25?, is the best buy in the history of the amusement area. No high-brow affair, it is lavishly designed for the outdoors with floodlights, loudspeakers, has Irene Sharaff's gorgeous costuming and Hassard Short's lively direction, does a slick...
...00The War This Week--Henry Oyen. 8:15 Gilbert and Sullivan's "Mikado." 9:00 Excerpts from Ibsen's "Peer Gynt." Produced by the 41 Workshop. 9:15 Play It Again.--Popular Music. 9:45 Masters of Music--Sibelius' En Saga, 5th Symphony in E Flat Major, Opus 82 and three songs by Marian Anderson. 10:45 Crimson News, Sports, Interview...
...Chicago last season the Federal Theatre Project launched the big moneymaker of its brief career with a rousing, all-Negro Swing Mikado. In Chicago last week an all-Negro cast kicked over another Gilbert & Sullivan lantern, hoping to start another blaze of swing with a Tropical Pinafore. But the show went over on its rich, husky Negro singing rather than as a shagging Harlemquinade...
Otherwise Tropical Pinafore had little of the genuine high spirits that lifted The Swing Mikado high off its feet. But it had singing that not only The Swing Mikado, but even the D'Oyly Carters, might envy...