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The credits for this production have not yet been completed or verified.
The Mikado
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| First Preview: | Total Previews: | ||
| Opening Date: | Feb 11, 1944 | ||
| Closing Date: | Mar 26, 1944 | Total Performances: | 6 |
Category: Musical, Operetta, Revival, Broadway
Description: A comic operetta in two acts
Setting: Courtyard of Ko-Ko's official residence. Ko-Ko's garden in Titipu.
| Production Staff | |
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| Produced by Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company | |
| Written by W. S. Gilbert; Music by Sir Arthur Sullivan; Musical Director: Louis Kroll | |
| Directed by R.H. Burnside | |
| Cast |
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| Florenz Ames | Ko-Ko Lord High Executioner of Titipu |
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| Tom Bennett | Chorus | |
| Gerald Bercier | Chorus | |
| Edward Bird | Chorus | |
| David Bogart | Chorus | |
| John Dewey | Chorus | |
| Robert Eckles | Pooh-Bah Lord High Everything Else |
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| Joseph Filos | Chorus | |
| Walter George | Chorus | |
| James Gerard | Nanki-Poo son of the Mikado, disguised as a wandering minstr |
Alternate |
| Catherine Judah | Katisha an Elderly Lady, in love with Nanki-Poo |
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| August Loring | Chorus | |
| Barry Lyndall | Chorus | |
| Chester MaDan | Chorus | |
| Edwin Marsh | Chorus | |
| Larry O'Dell | Chorus | |
| Bertram Peacock | Pish-Tush a Noble Lord |
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| Lewis Pierce | Go-To a Noble Lord |
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| Robert Pitkin | The Mikado of Japan | |
| Kathleen Roche | Yum-Yum one of Three Sisters, ward of Ko-Ko |
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| Allen Stewart | Nanki-Poo son of the Mikado, disguised as a wandering minstr |
Alternate |
| Marie Valdez | Peep-Bo one of Three Sisters, ward of Ko-Ko |
music by Arthur Sullivan; lyrics by W. S. Gilbert
| ACT 1 | Sung By |
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| If You Want to Know Who We Are | Chorus of Men |
| A Wand'ring Minstrel I | Nanki-Poo (son of the Mikado, disguised as a wandering minstr) and Chorus |
| Our Great Mikado, Virtuous Man | Pish-Tush (a Noble Lord) and Chorus |
| Young Man, Despair, Likewise Go To | Pooh-Bah (Lord High Everything Else), Nanki-Poo (son of the Mikado, disguised as a wandering minstr) and Pish-Tush (a Noble Lord) |
| And Have I Journey'd for a Month | Nanki-Poo (son of the Mikado, disguised as a wandering minstr) and Pooh-Bah (Lord High Everything Else) |
| Behold the Lord High Executioner | Ko-Ko (Lord High Executioner of Titipu) |
| As Some Day It May Happen | Ko-Ko (Lord High Executioner of Titipu) and Chorus |
| Comes a Train of Little Ladies | Chorus of Girls |
| Three Little Maids From School | Yum-Yum (one of Three Sisters, ward of Ko-Ko), Peep-Bo (one of Three Sisters, ward of Ko-Ko), Pitti-Sing (one of Three Sisters, ward of Ko-Ko) and Chorus |
| So Please You, Sir, We Much Regret | Yum-Yum (one of Three Sisters, ward of Ko-Ko), Peep-Bo (one of Three Sisters, ward of Ko-Ko), Pitti-Sing (one of Three Sisters, ward of Ko-Ko), Pooh-Bah (Lord High Everything Else) and Chorus |
| Were You No to Ko-Ko Plighted | Yum-Yum (one of Three Sisters, ward of Ko-Ko) and Nanki-Poo (son of the Mikado, disguised as a wandering minstr) |
| I Am So Proud | Ko-Ko (Lord High Executioner of Titipu), Pooh-Bah (Lord High Everything Else) and Pish-Tush (a Noble Lord) |
| With Aspect Stern and Gloomy Stride | Company |
| ACT 2 | Sung By |
| Braid the Raven Hair | Pitti-Sing (one of Three Sisters, ward of Ko-Ko) and Chorus of Girls |
| The Sun, Whose Rays Are All Ablaze | Yum-Yum (one of Three Sisters, ward of Ko-Ko) |
| Brightly Dawns Our Wedding Day | Yum-Yum (one of Three Sisters, ward of Ko-Ko), Pitti-Sing (one of Three Sisters, ward of Ko-Ko), Nanki-Poo (son of the Mikado, disguised as a wandering minstr) and Pish-Tush (a Noble Lord) |
| Here's a How-de-do! If I Marry You | Yum-Yum (one of Three Sisters, ward of Ko-Ko), Nanki-Poo (son of the Mikado, disguised as a wandering minstr) and Ko-Ko (Lord High Executioner of Titipu) |
| Mi-ya-sa-ma-mi-ya-sa-ma | Chorus |
| A More Humane Mikado Never Did in Japan Exist | The Mikado of Japan and Chorus |
| The Criminal Cried as He Dropped Him Down | Pitti-Sing (one of Three Sisters, ward of Ko-Ko), Ko-Ko (Lord High Executioner of Titipu), Pooh-Bah (Lord High Everything Else) and Chorus |
| The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring | Nanki-Poo (son of the Mikado, disguised as a wandering minstr), Ko-Ko (Lord High Executioner of Titipu), Yum-Yum (one of Three Sisters, ward of Ko-Ko), Pitti-Sing (one of Three Sisters, ward of Ko-Ko) and Pooh-Bah (Lord High Everything Else) |
| Alone, and Yet Alive | Katisha (an Elderly Lady, in love with Nanki-Poo) |
| On a Tree by a River, a Little Tom-tit Sang Willow, Tit-willow | Ko-Ko (Lord High Executioner of Titipu) |
| There Is a Beauty in the Bellow of the Blast | Katisha (an Elderly Lady, in love with Nanki-Poo) and Ko-Ko (Lord High Executioner of Titipu) |
| For He's Gone and Married Yum-Yum | Company |