Harrogate Gilbert and Sullivan Society are performing this at the Frazer Theatre in Knaresborough from the 24th to 27th May 2023 at 7.30pm for the evening shows and 2.30pm for the matinee on the Saturday.
Over fifty years ago schoolboys who were uncomfortable to share a communal school shower with certain fellows would declare 'His mater ought to put his name down as a trainee Mikado player.' Having said that Eric Idle and one or two other players in this cast are / were married.
This was always my favorite Gilbert and Sullivan Operetta from before I even knew who they were! It's in the Movie "Foul Play" with Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase. The Wondering Minstrel song is in the 1960s Batman television series as the song for the villain The Minstrel. The Mikado will always be my favorite! Thanks for posting this.
It's based on late 19th/early 20th century stage makeup, made to be seen from the furthest seats in a large, dimly lit theatre...but you're right, it's all wrong for TV.
The irony of all of this is there is a very easy to deduce hidden subplot in all of this. Nanki Poo most likely was well aware of the events going on in Titipoo, and most likely engineered most of the events through manipulation.
I prefer this kind of art direction for The Mikado if the cast has to be white. After all, the Orientalism was just window dressing to make fun of British society. Better to make the composers' intention more blatant than to put on Yellowface.
@feelthejoy: Your thinking is really crude even for a PC warrior. But if you watch the programme about the making of this production, you might understand why JM went for the 1920s dress and design.
@@andrewwrobel2255 I was literally in a production of the mikado this past summer and he did Japanese dress, but we sure as hell didn’t do “squint eyes” or yellow face. 1920s setting has nothing to do with making racist gestures. Lol “PC warrior”? Yeah right. 🙄🙄🙄
@@hauthot287 it’s not supposed to be abt Japanese culture, they used it to skewer their own culture and disguised it a bit by having it take place in a fictionalized version of Japan
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Harrogate Gilbert and Sullivan Society are performing this at the Frazer Theatre in Knaresborough from the 24th to 27th May 2023 at 7.30pm for the evening shows and 2.30pm for the matinee on the Saturday.
Over fifty years ago schoolboys who were uncomfortable to share a communal school shower with certain fellows would declare 'His mater ought to put his name down as a trainee Mikado player.' Having said that Eric Idle and one or two other players in this cast are / were married.
wow
Bro. Chill.
This was always my favorite Gilbert and Sullivan Operetta from before I even knew who they were! It's in the Movie "Foul Play" with Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase. The Wondering Minstrel song is in the 1960s Batman television series as the song for the villain The Minstrel. The Mikado will always be my favorite! Thanks for posting this.
I could have sworn that I just saw Stephen Fry wearing a long black moustache in this
My fair lady inspired
Thoroughly enjoyed watching it. Saw this performed live back in the day. It's lost none of its charm.
So good , every time. Americans don’t know what they are missing
Who says we're missing it?
Isn't it a shade unusual to eliminate the author completely from a work nominally by him?
The makeup is honestly kind of horrifying. At least we have the answer to "what if those porcelain Victorian dolls came to life".
It's based on late 19th/early 20th century stage makeup, made to be seen from the furthest seats in a large, dimly lit theatre...but you're right, it's all wrong for TV.
The irony of all of this is there is a very easy to deduce hidden subplot in all of this. Nanki Poo most likely was well aware of the events going on in Titipoo, and most likely engineered most of the events through manipulation.
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I prefer this kind of art direction for The Mikado if the cast has to be white. After all, the Orientalism was just window dressing to make fun of British society. Better to make the composers' intention more blatant than to put on Yellowface.
The three little maids segment in this is nightmare fuel. Hideous
The whole production is completely devoid of Gilbert's humour, or anyone else's for that matter.
Truly ghastly.
“Let’s make this less racist by putting them in English dress”
*man literally does squinty eyes pulling gesture on the word “Japan”*
Yikes
It is funny seeing how much Gilbert & Sullivan don’t know abt Japanese culture
Cmon , that’s like calling Fiddler on the roof racists - just enjoy the music
@feelthejoy: Your thinking is really crude even for a PC warrior. But if you watch the programme about the making of this production, you might understand why JM went for the 1920s dress and design.
@@andrewwrobel2255 I was literally in a production of the mikado this past summer and he did Japanese dress, but we sure as hell didn’t do “squint eyes” or yellow face. 1920s setting has nothing to do with making racist gestures. Lol “PC warrior”? Yeah right. 🙄🙄🙄
@@hauthot287 it’s not supposed to be abt Japanese culture, they used it to skewer their own culture and disguised it a bit by having it take place in a fictionalized version of Japan