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The Mikado is an enduringly popular comic opera with memorable music, endearing characters and some of the wittiest lyrical comedy in the English language. Featuring much loved songs such as 'I’ve Got A Little List' (the better-known title of 'As Someday it May Happen'), 'A Wand’ring Minstrel I', 'Three Little Maids From School Are We', 'The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring' and many more. Nanki-Poo loves Yum-Yum but she is betrothed to Ko-Ko, the new Lord High Executioner. When the Mikado (or emperor) orders a beheading, Nanki-Poo and Ko-Ko try to come to an arrangement that doesn’t involve anyone losing their head! However, the arrival in town of the spurned Katisha turns everything topsy-turvy. With melodious mischief and preposterous plots, the tangled web unravels; will the punishment fit the crime? Gilbert’s imagined Japan was inspired by the opening of a London exhibition featuring a Japanese village inhabited by 100 citizens and the European obsession with everything Japanese following its re-opening to the world. The distracting beauty of his Japanese setting allowed Gilbert to get away with poking fun at the staid social norms, absurd etiquette, and weighty bureaucracy of a colonising Victorian England. This delightful comic opera enjoyed immense popularity throughout Europe where 17 companies performed it 9000 times within two years of its premiere in 1885. And, in 2006, the Japanese Tokyo Theatre Company presented The Mikado as part of the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in England. All tickets are $40 and are available online here or at the door.
Doors open at 6.30pm. Seating is in the stalls and is unreserved. For booking assistance, please contact GSOV 0490 465 009 or email tickets@gsov.org.au For questions about the venue, call Northern Grampians Shire customer service (03) 5358 8700 or email info@ngshire.vic.gov.au
Stawell Entertainment Centre, 59-69 Main Street, Stawell, 3380, View Map
59-69 Main Street , Stawell 3380
$40