Word: mikados
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...Oyly Carte, now at the shubert, is performing "The Mikado" with all the polish and humor that the operetta needs. Martyn Green, who is one of the funniest men around in any company, climbs up the scenery and mugs furiously, but he hardly ever steps outside his role in the play, that of the Lord High Executioner. Darrell Fancourt, as the humane Mikado of the story, leers competently at his unfortunate subjects and utters the most grotesque chuckles that have been heard in Boston since he was last here nine years ago. The romantic leads are taken by Thomas Round...
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...Mikado (book & lyrics by Sir W. S. Gilbert; music by Sir Arthur Sullivan; produced by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company) brought to Broadway, for the first time since 1939, England's famed Gilbert & Sullivan troupe, the D'Oyly Carters. It also brought to Broadway, possibly for the first time since 1939, those dedicated spirits, those Haute-Savoyards, for whom G. & S. is not a production but a rite. For seven weeks, with a new opera every Monday, they might chirrup, gurgle, hum, keep an eye out for heresy...
...G.I.s had played The Mikado to G.I. audiences in Tokyo's Ernie Pyle theater a year...
...Last Look Around (295 pp.)-Clark Lee -Duell, Sloan & Pearce ($2.75); Star-Spangled Mikado (282 pp.)-Frank Kelley and Cornelius Ryan-McBride...