Details

Perhaps Gilbert and Sullivan's most popular and most performed operetta, this Japanese inspired story has some of the most memorable of their songs including; 'Three Little Maids from School', 'I've got a Little List', 'A Wandering Minstrel' and 'A Most Humane Mikado'. Nanki-Poo, the son of the Mikado, arrives in disguise in the town of Titipu to escape his betrothal to the rather aged Katisha. Here, he falls in love with Yum-Yum, the reluctant fiancee of Ko-Ko the executioner (who doesn't execute people). Meanwhile, the Mikado comes to visit Pooh-Bah, the spiv of a town mayor, seeking some public executions and Katisha arrives seeking her betrothed ... plans are uregently required to make everyone happy and nobody headless.

Cast/Performers

Malcolm Rivers, Colin Lee, Richard Suart, Royce Mills, Gareth Jones, Jacqueline Varsey, Maria Jones, Sophie-Louise Dann, Deborah Hawksley, Bethany Halliday, Anthea Kempston, Davina Adshead, Ruth Brown, Rachel Taylor, Rachel Munro, Sandra Nakhosteen, Louise van de Bours, Bridget Hardy, Vivien Care, Shelley Coulter-Smith, James Llwewllyn Thomas, Stephen Brown, Julian Alexander Smith, David Heathcote, Steven Fawell, Dean MacRae, Dominic Barrand, Nathaniel Gibbs, Robert M Davies, David Valks, Stephen Faughey, Brian J Saccente, John Suckling, Andrew Wareham

Creatives/Company

Music: A.Sullivan
Lyrics: W.S.Gilbert
Producer(s): Raymond Gubbay, ATG, TGL, PRE-Eminence Ltd
Company: The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
Director(s): Ian Judge, John Owen Edwards (music)
Choreographer: Lindsay Dolan
Design: Tim Goodchild
Lighting: Wayne Dowdeswell
Conductor: David Steadman