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...festival will feature big-name professionals (Jackie Washington, Odetta), local amateur groups such as the People's Theatre, and a number of films (Black Orpheus, Come Back Africa). But much of the entertainment will be provided by students of the Elma Lewis School, who will stage the Tempest, The Mikado, and a number of dance concerts...
RICHARD E. HAMMOND: Varsity soccer, captain; Gilbert and Sullivan, H.M.S.. Pinafore, The Mikado; Hasty Pudding Theatricals, Right Up Your Alley; Harvard Policy Committee; Rugby; Cheerleading; Combined Charities; Upward Bound Tutor; Owl Club...
Punching the Clock. Biggest and newest of the nightspots is the Mikado, in Tokyo's swank Akasaka District. Run by a Korean "cabaret king" named Yoshiaki Konami, 54, the Mikado boasts an electric eye to open the door, a "dancing" West German water fountain, 1,250 hostesses in evening dress or kimono, and 30 Japanese Rockettes who bump and grind through Papa Don't Preach to Me in top hat and tails. Bare-breasted "Arabian" beauties alternate onstage with lion-maned Kabuki dancers. There is an exclusive downstairs party suite with 120 of Tokyo's most luscious...
Last night at Agassiz the cast of the Mikado exploded, soared, and then, just at the end, drooped, but the chances Peter Skolnik took with G&S's masterpiece worked and carried everything...
...Mikado has been done so many times, and directors usually rely on a number of classic moves. Pittising and here two school mates have made a thousand returns from school to meet her betrothed, the Lord High Executioner, and each time they have dipped their knees and twirled their fans at the exact same point in the score. But Skolnik has changed all that. His blocking and his gags are brand new,--only an audience that has never seen a G&S should fail to enjoy this...