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Theatre poster for The Mikado The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu is a in two acts, with music by and by , their ninth of fourteen. It opened on 14 March 1885, in , where it ran at the for 672 performances, which was the second-longest run for any work of musical theatre and one of the longest runs of any theatre piece up to that time. Before the end of 1885, it was estimated that, in Europe and America, at least 150 companies were producing the opera. The Mikado remains the most frequently performed , and it is especially popular with amateur and school productions. The work has been translated into numerous languages and is one of the most frequently played musical theatre pieces in history. Setting the opera in , an exotic locale far away from Britain, allowed Gilbert to satirise British politics and institutions more freely by disguising them as Japanese. Gilbert used foreign or fictional locales in several operas, including The Mikado, , , and , to soften the impact of his pointed satire of British institutions. Cover of vocal score, c. When ticket sales for Princess Ida showed early signs of flagging, the impresario realised that, for the first time since 1877, no new Gilbert and Sullivan work would be ready when the old one closed. On 22 March 1884, Carte gave Gilbert and Sullivan contractual notice that a new opera would be required within six months. Sullivan's close friend, the conductor , had suffered a serious stroke in December 1883 that effectively ended his career. Gilbert, who had already started work on a new libretto in which people fall in love against their wills after taking a magic lozenge, was surprised to hear of Sullivan's hesitation. Sullivan returned to London, and, as April wore on, Gilbert tried to rewrite his plot, but he could not satisfy Sullivan. It would take another ten months for The Mikado to reach the stage. A revised version of their 1877 work, The Sorcerer, coupled with their one-act piece 1875 , played at the Savoy while Carte and their audiences awaited their next work. Photo at the taken by WS Gilbert In 1914, Cellier and Bridgeman first recorded the familiar story of how Gilbert found his inspiration: Gilbert, having determined to leave his own country alone for a while, sought elsewhere for a subject suitable to his peculiar humour. A trifling accident inspired him with an idea. One day an old Japanese sword that, for years, had been hanging on the wall of his study, fell from its place. This incident directed his attention to Japan. Just at that time a company of Japanese had arrived in England and set up a little village of their own in Knightsbridge. The story is an appealing one, but it is largely fictional. Gilbert was interviewed twice about his inspiration for The Mikado. In both interviews the sword was mentioned, and in one of them he said it was the inspiration for the opera, although he never said that the sword had fallen. What puts the entire story in doubt, moreover, is Cellier and Bridgeman's error concerning the : It did not open until 10 January 1885, almost two months after Gilbert had already completed Act I. Gilbert picked it up. His journalistic mind, always quick to seize on topicalities, turned to a Japanese Exhibition which had recently been opened in the neighbourhood. Gilbert had seen the little Japanese men and women from the Exhibition shuffling in their exotic robes through the streets of Knightsbridge. Now he sat at his writing desk and picked up the quill pen. He began making notes in his plot-book. The story was dramatised in more or less this form in the film. However, even though the 1885—87 Japanese exhibition in Knightsbridge had not opened when Gilbert conceived of The Mikado, European trade with Japan had increased in recent decades, and an English had built through the 1860s and 1870s. This made the time ripe for an opera set in Japan. He also recounted that a young Japanese lady, a tea-server from the Japanese village, came to rehearsals to coach the three little maids in some native Japanese dances. He inquires about his beloved, a schoolgirl called Yum-Yum, who is a ward of Ko-Ko formerly a cheap tailor. However, all of the town's officials except the haughty nobleman, Pooh-Bah, proved too proud to serve under an ex-tailor, and they resigned. Pooh-Bah now holds all their posts and collects all their salaries. Nanki-Poo arrives and informs Ko-Ko of his love for Yum-Yum. Ko-Ko sends him away, but Nanki-Poo manages to meet with his beloved and reveals his secret to Yum-Yum: he is the son and heir of the Mikado, but travels in disguise to avoid the amorous advances of Katisha, an elderly lady of his father's court. Fortuitously, Ko-Ko discovers that Nanki-Poo, in despair over losing Yum-Yum, is preparing to commit suicide. After ascertaining that nothing would change Nanki-Poo's mind, Ko-Ko makes a bargain with him: Nanki-Poo may marry Yum-Yum for one month if, at the end of that time, he allows himself to be executed. Ko-Ko would then marry the young widow. However, the townspeople are sympathetic to the young couple, and Katisha's attempts to reveal Nanki-Poo's secret are drowned out by the shouting of the crowd. Outwitted but not defeated, Katisha makes it clear that she intends to get vengeance. Pitti-Sing and Peep-Bo return to remind her of the limited duration of her impending union. Yum-Yum is unwilling to marry under these circumstances, and so Nanki-Poo challenges Ko-Ko to behead him on the spot. It turns out, however, that Ko-Ko has never executed anyone, not even a , and cannot execute Nanki-Poo, because the ex-tailor is too soft-hearted. Ko-Ko instead sends Nanki-Poo and Yum-Yum away to be wed by Pooh-Bah, as Archbishop of Titipu , promising to present to the Mikado a false in evidence of the fictitious execution. Ko-Ko assumes that the ruler has come to see whether an execution has been carried out. Ko-Ko notes slyly that most of the town's important officers that is, Pooh-Bah were present at the ceremony. However, the Mikado has come about an entirely different matter; he is searching for his son. Meanwhile, Katisha is reading the death certificate and notes with horror that the person executed was Nanki-Poo. With the three conspirators facing painful execution, Ko-Ko pleads with Nanki-Poo to reveal himself to his father. He begs for her hand in marriage, saying that he has long harboured a passion for her. Nanki-Poo and Yum-Yum then re-appear, sparking Katisha's fury. Nanki-poo as a wand'ring minstrel, from The Story of the Mikado. Art by Alice B. It also had the quickest revival: after Gilbert and Sullivan's next work, , closed relatively quickly, three operas were revived to fill the interregnum until was ready, with The Mikado being revived just seventeen months after the first run closed. The original set design was by , with men's costumes by. The first provincial production of The Mikado opened on 27 July 1885 in , with several members of that company leaving in August to present the first authorised American production in New York. From then on, The Mikado was a constant presence on tour. From 1885 until the Company's closure in 1982, there was no year in which a D'Oyly Carte company or several of them was not presenting it. The Mikado was revived again while was in preparation. When it became clear that that opera was not a success, The Mikado was given at matinees, and the revival continued when The Grand Duke closed after just three months. In 1906—07, , the widow of , mounted a repertory season at the Savoy, but The Mikado was not performed, as it was thought that visiting Japanese royalty might be offended by it. However, it was included in Mrs. Carte's second repertory season, in 1908—09. New costume designs were created by for the 1926 season and were used until 1982. About 150 unauthorised versions cropped up, and, as had been the case with Pinafore, there was nothing that Carte or Gilbert and Sullivan could do about it, since there was no copyright treaty at the time. In Australia, The Mikado's first authorised performance was on 14 November 1885 at the Theatre Royal, , produced by. During 1886, Carte was touring five Mikado companies in North America. Carte toured the opera in 1886 and again in 1887 in Germany and elsewhere in Europe. Thousands of amateur productions have been mounted throughout the English-speaking world and beyond, beginning in the 1880s. One production during World War I was given in the in Germany. After the Gilbert copyrights expired in 1962, the mounted the first non-D'Oyly Carte professional production in England, with as Ko-Ko. Among the many professional revivals since then was an production in 1986, with as Ko-Ko and as Yum-Yum, directed by. This production, which has been revived numerous times over three decades, is set not in ancient Japan, but in a swanky 1920s seaside hotel with sets and costumes in white and black. Canada's has produced The Mikado several times, first in 1963 and again in 1982 revived in 1983 and 1984 and in 1993. The following table shows the history of the D'Oyly Carte productions in Gilbert's lifetime: Theatre Opening Date Closing Date Perfs. Details Savoy Theatre 14 March 1885 19 January 1887 672 First London run. Production was given at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, except for a one-month transfer to the Standard Theatre in February 1886. Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York 1 November 1886 20 November 1886 3 wks Production with some D'Oyly Carte personnel under the management of John Stetson. Savoy Theatre 7 June 1888 29 September 1888 116 First London revival. Savoy Theatre 6 November 1895 4 March 1896 127 Second London revival. Savoy Theatre 27 May 1896 4 July 1896 6 Performances at matinees during the original run of. Savoy Theatre 11 July 1896 17 February 1897 226 Continuation of revival after early closure of The Grand Duke. Savoy Theatre 28 April 1908 27 March 1909 142 Second Savoy repertory season; played with five other operas. Closing date shown is of the entire season. Ko-Ko reveals that when a man is beheaded, his wife is buried alive: from Gilbert's children's book. The Mikado is a comedy that deals with themes of death and cruelty. This works only because Gilbert treats these themes as trivial, even lighthearted issues. Death is treated as a businesslike event in Gilbert's topsy-turvy world. The plot conceit that Nanki-Poo may marry Yum-Yum if he agrees to die at the end of the month was used in , a 17th-century play by. The term was commonly used by the English in the 19th century but became obsolete. To the extent that the opera portrays Japanese culture, style and government, it is a fictional version of Japan used to provide a picturesque setting and to capitalise on and the British fascination with Japan and the in the 1880s. By setting the opera in a foreign land, Gilbert felt able to more sharply criticise British society and institutions. I doubt if there is a single joke in the whole play that fits the Japanese. But all the jokes in the play fit the English. About England, Pooh-bah is something more than a satire; he is the truth. To that end, Gilbert engaged some of the Japanese at the Knightsbridge village to advise on the production and to coach the actors. The characters' names in the play are not Japanese names, but rather in many cases English or simply dismissive exclamations. The 's name, Ko-Ko, is similar to that of the scheming Ko-Ko-Ri-Ko in by. Some Japanese critics saw the depiction of the title character as a disrespectful representation of the revered ; Japanese theatre was prohibited from depicting the emperor on stage. Japanese , who saw an 1886 production in London, took no offence. When made a state visit in 1907, the British government banned performances of The Mikado from London for six weeks, fearing that the play might offend him — a manoeuvre that backfired when the prince complained that he had hoped to see The Mikado during his stay. The first public production, given at three performances was in 1946 in the in Tokyo, conducted by the pianist for the entertainment of American troops and Japanese audiences. The set and costumes were opulent, and the principal players were American, Canadian, and British, as were the women's chorus, but the male chorus, the female dancing chorus and the orchestra were Japanese. General banned a large-scale professional 1947 Tokyo production by an all-Japanese cast, but other productions have occurred in Japan. For example, the opera was performed at the Ernie Pyle Theatre in Tokyo in 1970, presented by the Eighth Army Special Service. Japanese researchers speculate that Gilbert may have heard of Chichibu silk, an important export in the 19th century. The town's Japanese-language adaptation of The Mikado has been revived several times throughout Japan and, in 2006, the Chichibu Mikado was performed at the in England. Some commentators dismissed the criticism as political correctness. In 2015, a planned production by the was withdrawn after its publicity materials ignited a similar protest in the Asian-American blogosphere. The company redesigned its Mikado production and debuted the new concept in December 2016, receiving a warm review from The New York Times. After of San Francisco planned a 2016 production, objections by the Asian-American community prompted them to re-set the opera in , eliminating all references to Japan. Reviewers felt that the change resolved the issue. These references are to white performers in , a popular entertainment in the Victorian era, rather than to dark-skinned people. Audience members objected to the word during the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company's 1947 American tour, however, and asked to supply revised wording. These alterations have been incorporated into the opera's libretto and score since then. To avoid distracting the audience with references that have become offensive over time, some lyrics are sometimes modified in modern productions. Changes are also often made, especially in the list song, to take advantage of opportunities for topical jokes. Enduring popularity The Mikado became the most frequently performed , and it has been translated into numerous languages. It is one of the most frequently played musical theatre pieces in history. The Mikado has been admired by other composers. Robertson Strafford Moss Ko-Ko Pooh-Bah Pish-Tush Charles Richards Richard Cummings Leicester Tunks Go-To 1 R. Edgar Fred Drawater Yum-Yum Pitti-Sing Kate Forster Peep-Bo Geraldine St. Maur Beatrice Boarer Katisha Elsie Cameron 1Role of Go-To added from April 1885 ²For 1896—97 revival, Richard Temple returned to play The Mikado during January—February 1896, and again from November 1896 — February 1897. Role D'Oyly Carte 1915 Tour D'Oyly Carte 1925 Tour D'Oyly Carte 1935 Tour D'Oyly Carte 1945 Tour D'Oyly Carte 1951 Tour The Mikado Leicester Tunks Nanki-Poo Dewey Gibson Neville Griffiths Ko-Ko Pooh-Bah Pish-Tush Henry Millidge Wynn Dyson Go-To T. Penry Hughes Donald Harris Yum-Yum Elsie McDermid Kathleen Frances Margaret Mitchell Pitti-Sing Aileen Davies Joan Gillingham Peep-Bo Betty Grylls Beatrice Elburn Elizabeth Nickell-Lean June Field Katisha Role D'Oyly Carte 1955 Tour D'Oyly Carte 1965 Tour D'Oyly Carte 1975 Tour D'Oyly Carte 1982 Tour The Mikado Nanki-Poo Neville Griffiths Colin Wright Ko-Ko Pooh-Bah Pish-Tush Peter Lyon Go-To John Banks John Broad Thomas Scholey Yum-Yum Cynthia Morey Pitti-Sing Judi Merri Lorraine Daniels Peep-Bo Beryl Dixon Roberta Morrell Katisha Cover of re-issue of 1907 Mikado recording Audio recordings The Mikado has been recorded more often than any other Gilbert and Sullivan opera. Of those by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, the 1926 recording is the best regarded. The first production was released in 1906 by. The second production was released in July 1907 by the Walturdaw Company and starred as Ko-Ko. Both of these programs used the system of phonograph recordings of the performers played back along with the silent footage of the performance. In 1926, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company made a brief promotional film of excerpts from The Mikado. Some of the most famous Savoyards are seen in this film, including as The Mikado, as Ko-Ko, as Pooh-Bah, as Yum-Yum, and as Katisha. In 1939, Universal Pictures released a ninety-minute. Made in , the film stars as Ko-Ko, as Pooh-Bah, the American singer as Nanki-Poo and as Yum-Yum. Many of the other leads and choristers were or had been members of the D'Oyly Carte company. The music was conducted by , a former D'Oyly Carte music director, who was also the producer and was credited with the adaptation, which involved a number of cuts, additions and re-ordered scenes. Skall received an nomination for Best Cinematography. Art direction and costume designs were by. There were some revisions — The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze is performed twice, first by Nanki-Poo in a new early scene in which he serenades Yum-Yum at her window, and later in the traditional spot. A new prologue which showed Nanki-Poo fleeing in disguise was also added, and much of the Act II music was cut. In 1966, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company made of The Mikado that closely reflected their traditional staging, although there are some minor cuts. It was filmed on enlarged stage sets rather than on location, much like the 1965 , and was directed by the same director,. It stars , , , , , and and was conducted by. The cameras have captured everything about the company's acting except its magic. Opera Australia have released videos of their 1987 and 2011 productions. Since the 1990s, several professional productions have been recorded on video by the. The Mikado was adapted as a children's book by W. Gilbert entitled The Story of The Mikado, which was Gilbert's last literary work. It is a retelling of The Mikado, with various changes to simplify language or make it more suitable for children. Cover of The Story of the Mikado. The controlled the copyrights to performances of The Mikado and the other Gilbert and Sullivan operas in the U. It usually required authorised productions to present the music and libretto exactly as shown in the copyrighted editions. Since 1961, Gilbert and Sullivan works have been in the and can be — and frequently are — adapted and performed in new ways. It was directed by. A wide variety of popular media, including films, television, theatre, and advertising have referred to, parodied or pastiched The Mikado or its songs, and phrases from the libretto have entered popular usage in the English language. Some of the best-known of these cultural influences are described below. Quotes from The Mikado were used in letters to the police by the , who murdered at least five people in the Bay area between 1966 and 1970. The Mikado is parodied by , which credits Sullivan as the composer of most of its songs. The detective novel Death at the Opera 1934 by is set against a background of a production of The Mikado. In 2007, the Asian American theatre company, , produced The Mikado Project, an original play by Doris Baizley and. It was a of the opera premised on a fictional Asian American theatre company attempting to raise funds, while grappling with perceived racism in productions of The Mikado, by producing a revisionist version of the opera. This was adapted as a film in 2010. Wallpaper showing characters from The Mikado and other Savoy operas Film and television references to The Mikado include the climax of the film , which takes place during a performance of The Mikado. From The Capitalist, 1888 Beginning in the 1880s, Mikado trading cards were created that advertised various products. In 1888, Ed J. Smith wrote a stage parody of The Mikado called The Capitalist; or, The City of to encourage capital investment in Fort Worth, Texas. The name of the character Pooh-Bah to mean a person who holds many titles, often a pompous or self-important person. Pooh-Bah is mentioned in 's novel and in other, often political, contexts. In December 2009, BBC presenter James Naughtie, on Radio 4's Today programme, compared UK cabinet member to Pooh-Bah, because Mandelson held many offices of state, including Secretary of State for Business, First Secretary of State, Lord President of the Council, President of the Board of Trade, and Church Commissioner, and he sat on 35 cabinet committees and sub-committees. Smyth released a book in 2008 called They'd none of 'em be missed, about the history of The Mikado and the 20 years of little list parodies by Suart, the 's usual Ko-Ko. Other songs in The Mikado have been referenced in. On the , Shore sang the song with and in 1963. On The Show, Groucho Marx and Cavett sang the song. In the film , as the title character sings the song just before she is murdered. The Pish-Tush line in this quartet lies lower than the rest of the role and ends on a bottom F. Therefore, an extra bass character, called Go-To, was introduced for this song and the dialogue scene leading into it. The continued generally to bifurcate the role, but vocal scores generally do not mention it. Other companies, however, have generally eliminated the role of Go-To and restored the material to Pish-Tush, when the role is played by someone with a sufficient vocal range. See Lord Neuberger's 2011 Bentham lecture 15 February 2013 at the. His part in it was first reduced, and then eliminated. However, some vocal scores still include Pish-Tush in this number in his reduced role. Williams 2010 , p. See Wilson and Lloyd, p. In the case of Princess Ida and The Mikado, they hired an American, George Lowell Tracy, to create the piano arrangement of the score, hoping that he would obtain rights that he could assign to them. The Theatre, 1 April 1885, quoted in Fitzgerald, pp. It originally meant not only the Sovereign, but also his house, the court, and even the State, and its use in historical writings causes many difficulties. The native Japanese employ the term neither in speech nor in writing. Chicago Sun-Times, 6 December 2010. Daniel Kravetz wrote in The Palace Peeper, December 2007, p. Journal of Legal History. The Story of the Savoy Opera in Gilbert and Sullivan's Day. Gilbert and Sullivan and their world 1973 , Thames and Hudson, p. Impressions that Remained, 1923, Quoted in Baily, p. See also Ffrench, Andrew. Silent Film Sound, Columbia University Press 2005 , p. The Genealogy of Clip Culture, in Henry Keazor and Thorsten Wübbena eds. Rewind, Play, Fast Forward: The Past, Present and Future of the Music Video, transcript Verlag 2010 , pp. Millennium-This Is Who We Are, Graham P. The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive. Archived from on 2008-06-07. Retrieved 5 May 2010. BeesWeb — the official site of Richard Thompson. Archived from on 10 June 2011. Retrieved 15 January 2011. Gilbert and Sullivan, a Dual Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. The First Night Gilbert and Sullivan. Ann Arbor, Michigan: The Queensbury Press. The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan. The Enduring Phenomenon of Gilbert and Sullivan. New York: Oxford University Press. Gilbert, Sullivan, and D'Oyly Carte. Gilbert: His Life and Letters. The Savoy Opera and the Savoyards. This book is Retrieved on 2007-06-10. Gänzl's Book of the Broadway Musical: 75 Favorite Shows, from H. Pinafore to Sunset Boulevard. The Story of the Mikado. London: Daniel O'Connor, 90 Great Russell Street. Martyn Green's Treasury of Gilbert and Sullivan. Arthur Sullivan: A Victorian Musician. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Gilbert Society Journal 22 : 686—96. D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, 1875—1982: An Unofficial History. MacMillan on music: essays on music. The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in Gilbert and Sullivan Operas: A Record of Productions, 1875—1961. Also, five supplements, privately printed. The Musical Times, Vol. Operetta: a theatrical history 2nd ed. Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody. New York: Columbia University Press. New York: Alfred A. University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
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