Word: mikados
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...Mikado (book & lyrics by Sir William Schwenck Gilbert; music by Sir Arthur Sullivan; produced by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company) ushers in yet another D'Oyly Carte visit to Broadway. In a sense, it is always the same visit, as full of tradition and ritual as though the visiting players were visiting royalty. It even seems to fetch the same audiences of devotees. The extravaganzas that once turned Victorian sanity upside down today seem one of the few things still on their feet. Titipu still flourishes, Barataria still stands...
...Mikado-though it seems rather like Bartlett's Familiar Quotations set to hurdy-gurdy tunes*-still holds up. Almost all of Gilbert's lyrics are beyond cavil, and the best of them are beyond praise, while Sullivan's music has more to boast of than a string of lively tunes. The first-act finale of The Mikado is not less a triumph of operatic brio for being also intended as a travesty...
...years, and the theater is in her blood and background. Her father worked in Oslo's Central Theater as a violinist and conductor, her mother as a vocal coach. The first score that flaxen-haired Kirsten ever "yelled out" as a child was Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado. She learned Lohengrin before...
Audition. In Philadelphia, investigating complaints that someone was screaming in the Shubert Theater at 4 a.m., cops found Night Watchman Hector Williams, 67, singing "My object all sublime" from Gilbert & Sullivan's Mikado to 1,900 empty seats...
...Japanese laid the bed for a railway, completing numerous tunnels and erecting all the masonry work for the required bridges. Then came 1945, and they moved out. Of course the Koreans intended to complete it, and like the Lord High Executioner in The Mikado, it seemed logical therefore to include it on the maps they made up in honor of the new republic. Furthermore, they even included train schedules for this line in their master timetables. Actually, not a rail has been laid...