The Mikado
"Operetta, Musical"
Overview
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.
About The Mikado (1987)
Released in 1987, The Mikado is a romance, comedy and tv movie film from Thames Television (GB). It was directed by Peter Robinson and John Michael Phillips and written by William S. Gilbert. The cast is led by Eric Idle, Lesley Garrett, Bonaventura Bottone, Richard van Allen and Felicity Palmer. With a runtime of 2h 10m, the film averages 7.5/10 across 2 TMDB ratings.
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