The Mikado
The Little Theatre,
Donnington, Shropshire
May 2013
Not only was 'The Mikado' the most successful
collaboration of Gilbert and Sullivan, but it was regarded as the cleverest
comic opera in the English language.
It was acclaimed immediately by critics and public alike after its first performance at The Savoy, London on March 14 1885. The fashionable Japanese theme sparkled with English wit, memorable characters and delightful music.
Rehearsal Photographs, courtesy of Ian Martin: (Please click to enlarge)
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The Production Team:
| Director | Cynthia Shaw | |
| Musical Director | Garry Bailey | |
| Rehearsal Pianist | Nykkö Mikaël Grégoire | |
| Lighting/Sound | Richard Foxcroft | |
| Costumes | Cynthia Shaw & Janet Murray | |
| Stage Manager | Sarah Taylor | |
| Set Painting | Carol Robertson, Vikki Lee, Lynne James & Cynthia Shaw | |
| Properties | Cynthia Shaw & Alan Shaw | |
| Make-Up | Estella Morris | |
| Typesetting | Alan Shaw | |
| Box Office | Denise Olenik & Jenny Oakley | |
| Posters | Verity Matthews | |
| Photography & Bar Manger | Ian Martin |
The Performers:
A selection of Musical numbers
To view clips of the Performance numbers by original artists (Courtesy of You Tube) please click the play buttons against each listing and return to the window above to view.
| Title | |
| ACT 1 | |
| If you want to know who we are |  |
| A Wandering Minstrel | |
| Our Great Mikado, virtuous man | |
| Young Man Despair | |
| The Lord High Executioner | |
| As Some day it may Happen | |
| Come a Train of Little Ladies | |
| Three Little maids | |
| So Please You Sir We Must Regret | |
| Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted | |
| I Am So Proud | |
| With aspect stern and gloomy stride | |
| ACT 2 | |
| Braid The Raven Hair | |
| The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze | |
| Brightly Dawns Our Wedding Day | |
| Here's a how-de-do (John Reed as Ko Ko, Valerie Masterson as Yum Yum & Phillip Potter as Nanki Poo) | |
| Mi-ya-sa-ma, Mi-ya-sa-ma (1926) | |
| A More Humane Mikado | |
| The Crimanal Cried | |
| See how the fates their gifts allot (1926) | |
| The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring | |
| Alone and yet Alive | |
| On a Tree by a River | |
| There is Beauty in the Bellow of the Blast | |
| For He's gone and married Yum-Yum | |
Rehearsal/Backstage Photographs: (Please click to enlarge)
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