Word: mikados
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...Mikado' in Color...
...confirmed D'Oyly Carte enthusiast, J. Arthur Rank's current production of "The Mikado" will probably be a disappointment. While a play like "Hamlet" falls naturally into a movie, even after it has been dismembered and reassembled differently, "The Mikado" on celluloid somehow just doesn't seem right. Perhaps this is because musical plays are basically improbable; choruses drift on and off stage for no apparent reason, and players sing lines which would be better spoken. But on the stage no one notices these irregularities, and certainly no one cares...
...Iolanthe," its run extended through tomorrow night by popular demand, is an essential for anyone who wants to see the D'Oyly Carte Company at its 1948 best. The latter half of this week sees a return to the Mikado. Then the troupe leaves Boston to spend a few months in Europe before its next American tour...
...idol of the galleries, who furiously recalled him for five (5) encores at one point in the proceedings. As the Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Porter (K.C.B.), Green seemed to strike sort of a midway position between his clowning and mugging and magnificently individual stage business of "The Mikado" and the austere simplicity of "Pirates." Part of the time he was the scene-stealing comic; part of the time he was the ramrod-stiff First Lord of the Admiralty...
...Mikado," which was first produced in 1885, supposedly is set in Japan, but there can be no doubt that the town of titipu is located somewhere in England. Gilbert and Sullivan owned much of their popularity to their ability to give their audiences friendly but accurate digs in the ribs, and "The Mikado" is the most popular because the satire applies to more people than in the other operas. Other G & S works have more credible plots and more consistently good lyries, but "The Mikado," with no conspicuous weaknesses, is primarily a good show. The acting, the sets...