The Mikado

Church Hall, Barnes

January 1933

Musical Director – Miss Edith Hays

Produced by – Mr & Mrs Enes Blackmore

The Mikado, or The Town of Titipu, is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, their ninth of fourteen operatic collaborations.

It opened on March 14, 1885, in London, where it ran at the Savoy Theatre for 672 performances, which was unprecedented for musical theatre pieces, 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 Savoy Opera, and it is especially popular with amateur and school productions. Indeed, The Mikado is one of the most frequently played musical theatre pieces in history!

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CAST

The Mikado of Japan – Walter E Ranson

Nanki-Poo – Lewis Tanner

Ko-Ko – Edward Bellamy, Trevor Owen

Pooh-Bah – John C Broad

Pish-Tush – John Webster

Go-Too – Richard Frost

Yum-Yum – Marjorie Ludlam

Pitti-Sing – Eileen Reynolds

Peep-Bo – Phyllis Bowhill

Katisha – Violet Tomkins

Chorus of School Girls, Nobles & Guards – Alice Anderson, Kathleen Barker, Dorothy Branson, May Broad, Nora Butler, Peggy Davis, Trissie Edgar, Doris Ellis, Peggy Frost, Connie Grange, Daphne Grange, Joan Jennings, Kathleen Kirby, Doris Mayo, Mary McCabe, Eileen Neale, Hilda Potts, Marion Ranson, Peggy Stirton, Gordon Broad, W Butler, William Collins, Leonard Dearmer, Jack Kirkby, E Lawrence, Chas Long, Luis Mayo, Eric Neale, Derrick Parry, Lilian Parry, Tom Pickup, Sydney Pughe, James Ritchie, Austin Rowe

CREW

Scenery by – John C Broad

Costumes by – B J Simmons