Auditions – The Mikado (2024)
The Mikado – A Staged Concert
The Mikado is one of the most famous and one of the best love of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operettas.
Nanki-Poo, The Mikado’s son, has run away to escape an arranged marriage with the elderly Katisha. He is in love with Yum-Yum, the ward of Ko-Ko, who is The Lord High Executioner. Nanki-Poo cannot marry Yum-Yum because Ko-Ko has decided to marry her himself!
The Mikado orders Ko-Ko to behead somebody (anybody he doesn’t care who) or Ko-Ko’s own head will roll. Nanki-Poo seems determined to take his own life rather than live without Yum-Yum, so to save his own head from being chopped off, Ko-Ko persaudes Nanki-Poo to be his substitute. Nanki-Poo agrees as long as he can enjoy one month of married bliss with Yum-Yum before he is beheaded.
As the wedding celebrations begin, a law is discovered, decreeing that a condemned man’s wife must be buried alive with his corpse! Not surprisingly Yum-Yum has a change of heart and tells Nanki-Poo she can no longer marry him, as ‘it’s such a stuffy death!’ To add to the confusion, Katisha arrives to claim Nanki-Poo and demands he marries her!
CAST LIST
THE MIKADO OF JAPAN
NANKI-POO (his Son, disguised as a wandering minstrel, and in love with YUM-YUM)
KO-KO (Lord High Executioner of Titipu)
POOH-BAH (Lord High Everything Else)
PISH-TUSH (a Noble Lord)
YUM-YUM Three Sisters — Wards of Ko-Ko.
PITTI-SING Three Sisters — Wards of Ko-Ko.
PEEP-BO Three Sisters — Wards of Ko-Ko.
KATISHA (an elderly Lady, in love with NANKI-POO)
Chorus of School-girls, Nobles, Guards
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