The Mikado

Kazz · 03-01-2010, 08:14 PM

Well booked to see Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado staged for the 125th anniversary. So looking forward to it I love G&S and its rarely on the profesional stage.

Anyone else a fan?

dandysmom · 03-01-2010, 09:27 PM

I've never seen a live performance, but love G & S ... the Mikado is a favorite, but love them all on CDs! Enjoy!!

angieh · 03-01-2010, 09:28 PM

Not hugely Kazz, but I do think the lyrics(if you can call them that) are clever. Never seen a production.

dandysmom · 03-01-2010, 09:36 PM

I can't sing, but do along with some of my favorites: Titwillow, Poor Little Buttercup, When I was a Lad, I am the Captain of the Pinafore....

Kazz · 03-01-2010, 10:01 PM

Eileen I will give you a full review of the performance when I've seen it in March.

yola · 03-01-2010, 10:22 PM

Hmmm - I have to admit to struggling with G&S. We did Pirates of Penzance at school; I worked on the sets, programme design and make up and try as I might I couldn't get into the music/libretto.

I also tried watching Mike Leigh's Topsy Turvey and desperately wanted to enjoy it but didn't

Karen/Eileen - what is it that grabs you about their work?

Kazz · 03-01-2010, 10:35 PM

I think its the lightness and the humour.....

yola · 03-01-2010, 10:41 PM

I adored the clever word-play of the scripts/librettos . . . I think it's the whole 'Victorian' approach to it that I found/find difficult though.

Might be time to retry snippets via you tube or similar . . .

Kazz · 03-01-2010, 10:45 PM

Yeah the stuffiness can be hard but I am hoping it won't be OTT in this one Alistair Mcgowan is the Mikado in the production I am going to see. This is the link http://www.thsh.co.uk/event-view.php?id=2557 I am hoping it is not to stuffy, I really am but really looking forward to it.

Kazz · 03-01-2010, 10:46 PM

Have to say though I grew into it I could not stand it, when I first heard it G&S that is but its slowly grown on me till I am quite taken.
Give it another go Yola I did and glad I did.

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