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Another first for Keynsham Music Festival!
The award-winning Bath Gilbert & Sullivan Society makes its debut at this year’s festival with a concert performance of one of the most popular and successful shows of all time.
The Mikadofirst hit the stage in March 1885 and ran for a record breaking 672 performances. It boasts some of Sullivan’s greatest musical hits including ‘Three Little Maids’, ‘Tit Willow’ and the famous ‘Little List’ song.
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Although Gilbert’s plot pokes fun at Victorian British society, poliitics, customs and pretentions much will strike a chord with today’s audiences.
In the story Nanki-Poo loves Yum-Yum but she’s engaged to Ko-Ko, the new Lord High Executioner.
When the Mikado orders a beheading, Nanki-Poo and KoKo try to come to an arrangement that doesn’t involve anyone losing their head!
All the plot complications resolve themselves in true Gilbertian style and you’ll enjoy a really fun, musical, entertaining evening.
Since 1944 Bath Gilbert & Sullivan Society has been appreciating, performing and promoting the works of one of the greatest and most successful musical theatre partnerships of all time.
We are so grateful to the Society for not only performing in Keynsham for the very first time but to do it in a park in a Big Top!
