The Mikado (1987)
2h 10m
Running Time
January 1, 1987Release Date
The Mikado (1987)
2h 10m
Running Time
January 1, 1987Release Date
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Plot.
Jonathan Miller set his well-known production of The Mikado, staged for the English National Opera, in a British seaside resort of the 1920s. The result, complete with a chorus of gentlemen of Japan as cartoon-like British peers, emphatically underscores the Englishness of the satire. The occasional non sequiturs, like a bunch of gentry dressed for Ascot and singing in Japanese, are loonily fun, and no more absurd than the fantasyland Japan that Gilbert and Sullivan invented. The time frame, though, seems little more than an excuse for a smart black-and-white production design.
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Cast & Crew.

Eric Idle
Ko-Ko

Lesley Garrett
Yum-Yum

Bonaventura Bottone
Nanki-Poo

Richard Van Allan
Pooh-Bah

Richard Van Allen
Pooh-Bah

Felicity Palmer
Katisha

Richard Angas
The Mikado of Japan

Susan Bullock
Peep-Bo

Ethna Robinson
Pitti-Sing

Mark Richardson
Pish-Tush

Mark Richardson
Pish-Tush

Peter Robinson
Director

Jonathan Miller
Producer / Stage Director

John Michael Phillips
Director

William S. Gilbert
Writer

Arthur Sullivan
Music
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