GILBERT AND SULLIVAN SAVOY OPERAS.
A presentation of the delightfully quaint and tuneful opera, “The Mikado,” will be given by J. C. Williamson’s Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company to-night. This opera is invested with a distinctive charm by the British satirical pungencies set in quaint conception of Oriental venality, strongly revived by the polish and all round capacity of the cast. Happy memories will be revived for many patrons by the reappearance, with all their pristine allure, of never-to-be-forgotten music and characterisations; to others “The Mikado” will spring from the mists of legend into a shining and joyous experience of reality. Ivan Menzies will again appear as Ko Ko, Richard Watson as Pooh Bah, Gregory Stroud as Pish Tush and Bernard
Manning as the Mikado. John Fgllard is cast as Nanki Poo, and Miss Evelyn Gardiner is said to give an inimitable performance as Katisha. The Three Little Maids will be Miss Viola Wilson (Yum Yum), Miss Sara Gregory (Pitti Sing) and Miss Peggy Shea (Peep Bo). “The Mikado” will be presented till next Monday night, and there will be a matinee to-mor-row. On Tuesday night for the final three nights of the season and at the matinee on Wednesday afternoon the evergreen nautical opera “H.M.S. Pinafore,” preceded by “Cox and Box” will be produced.
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Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 62, 28 February 1941, Page 3
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