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...years that Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado has been around, the Japanese had never once performed it. Obviously Pish-Tush's lines ridiculed the Emperor...
...great Mikado, virtuous...
...that neither the Emperor nor his people felt so strongly about the sacredness of His Majesty, the first all-Japanese performance of The Mikado was all set to be played last week in Tokyo.* Nervous, white-haired Michio Ito, who had spent 20 years in the U.S. directing dance productions, had rehearsed the cast for two months. The 49-man Tokyo Philharmonic had been drilled on the tricky rhythms of Sullivan's music. Kiyoshi Takagi, as Ko-Ko, had learned how to sing "teet wiro. teet wiro." The producers had gambled a whopping...
...midst of dress rehearsal came the bad news. General MacArthur's headquarters had banned The Mikado. The Japanese had applied two months ago for permission to perform it, and hearing no objections, had gone into production. Presumably Allied Headquarters had forgotten all about it until ads appeared in last week's papers, the day before the opening night. The announced reason for the ban: the Japanese had failed to get copyright permission. But unofficially, an Allied officer told U.S. newsmen: "This is not the time for Japanese to perform The Mikado" Japanese newspapers were forbidden even to mention...
Colorful Cabinet. Even so, there were many who were not amused. Prudish Lewis Carroll found the expression "Damn me!" in H.M.S. Pinafore "sad beyond words," and Queen Victoria decided that what was sauce for the Emperor of Japan in The Mikado was a lot too saucy for her in Utopia, Limited (an almost forgotten G. & S. opera in which members of the British Cabinet were portrayed as blackface minstrels). Certain noble ladies forbore to confess with the mercenary Duchess in The Gondoliers...