Word: nanki-poo
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Linard, as the disguised son of the Mikado, adds strong vocals to the part of Nanki-Poo and his acting, suitably sappy, is accomplished...
...ultimately it is the men--Ko-Ko, Nanki-Poo (Braden C. Linard) and a wonderfully rotund Pooh-Bah (Skip Sneeringer)--who make The Mikado worthwhile...
...Mikado's son, Nanki-Poo (Colum Amory), enters incognito because he is to be beheaded for refusing to marry the eminently unattractive Katisha (Laurie Myers). Nanki-Poo was counting on the imminent execution of his rival, Ko-Ko, thus facilitating his elopement with the delectable Yum-Yum (Amy Daley). To his chagrin, Ko-Ko is executioner rather than executed, and is about to marry Yum-Yum that very afternoon. Happily, Nanki-Poo is able to strike a deal with the Executioner. The Mikado's demand for an execution has imperiled Ko-Ko's life (he being the only person...
Myers waxes wildly as the lust-crazed Katisha. She draws peals of laughter with her incongrous teeth-gnashing and parody of a broken-hearted ingenue (overweight, arthritis-ridden, and eminently unsuitable for the adolescent Nanki-Poo...
There were empty seats in London's Adelphi Theater a fortnight ago, and those loyalists who had come were applauding their own memories as much as the D'Oyly Carte production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado. Listeners knew not just Nanki-Poo's Wandering Minstrel ballad by heart, they knew Pooh-Bah's dialogue. They would have grumbled if any of the costumes, designed by Charles Ricketts in 1926, had been changed. But of course, there were no changes...