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Chairman's Message

Good evening Ladies, Gentlemen and Children

On the last occasion when our production of "The Mikado" was presented here in 2004, we had a very enjoyable week, and I am confident that this year we will repeat this.

"The Mikado" is often named as the most popular of the G & S Operettas, and this year we have a changed company, and a slightly different orchestra.

However, we have our resident producer in Prue and our long term musical directorAllan. My thanks in addition also go our rehearsal pianists, Brian and Pam I mentioned a changed company, and orchestra, however together they present a formidable combination, one which I am sure you will enjoy.

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The Story a cheap tailor of Titipu who has been condemned to death for

l1!o-Ko, I \flirting, is reprieved at the last moment and raised to the rank of Lord

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Jo Titipu comes Nanki-Poo, the son of the Mikado, who to escape the I attentions of Katisha, has fled his Father's court disguised as a second trombone player. He falls madly in love with Yum-Yum, who is already betrothed to her elderly guardian, Ko-Ko, and so their case seems hopeless. Wedding preparations are already in hand when a letter arrives from the Mikado announcing that unless someone is beheaded within a month the post of Lord High Executioner will be abolished, and the city reduced to a village avoid irretrievable ruin for everyone, and after consultation with Pooh-Bah Jo I (who occupies every conceivable post from Private Secretary to First Lord of the Treasury - with appropriate salaries) it is decided that a victim must be found at once. The difficult choice is made when Nanki-Poo, overcome with grief at his inability to wed Yum-Yum announces his intention of committing suicide. Ko-Ko sees a way out and suggests to Nanki-Poo that he should allow himself to "be beheaded handsomely at the hands of the Public Executioner" in a months time.

Nanki-Poo agrees on the condition that he shall marry Yum-Yum at once. reluctantly assents, for

he l1!o-Ko I \and free to marry him. Aflaw in this

realises that she will be a widow in a month convenient arrangement is found: when a married man is beheaded, his wife is buried alive! ln the midst of this dilemma the approach of the Mikado is announced. Matters are serious for Ko-Ko, but his ready wit saves him. Why kill anyone when an affidavit that an execution has taken place will do just as well? Pooh-Bah, being grossly insulted, insists on a "cash down" settlement before he endorses the fiction.

Mikado announces that he has come about a different matter, namely, the Th" I disappearance of his son from the lmperial Court. lt is now discovered that the schemers have unwittingly sworn to the execution of the heir to the throne.

saves himself and his accomplices from death by boiling oil or melted I \lead calling Nanki-Poo (about to go on his honeymoon) back to life, and sacrificing himself in marriage with Katisha, who secures the reprieve. What a price to pay. Poor Ko-Ko.

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NANKI.POO

YUM.YUM

CHARLES MILLS

CHARLOTTE GARRAWAY

THE MIKADO

COLIN JONES

KATISHA

KO.KO

LINDA BOWEN

STEPHEN HOATH

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"lf you want to know who we are" Chorus of Men........

"A wandering Minstrel " 2. Song and Chorus (Nanki-Poo) great (Pish-Tush "Our 3. Song and Chorus)......

Mikado, virtuous man" 4. Song (Pooh-Bah, with Nanki-Poo and Pish-Tush)............. ....."Young man, despair, Iikewise go to" 4a. Recitation (Nanki-Poo and Pooh-Bah) ....."And have I journeyed for a month "Behold the Lord High Executioner!"

5. Chorus with Solo (Ko-Ko).......

'As some day it may happen" 5a Song (Ko-Ko with Chorus of Men) "Comes a train of little ladies" b. Chorus of Girls 7. Trio ........... .. "Three little maids from school are we" (Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo and Pitti-Sing, with Chorus of Girls) 'So p/ease you, sir, we much regret" 8. Quartet (Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing and Pooh-Bah with Chorus of Girls) "Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted" 9. Duet (Yum-Yum and Nanki-Poo (Ko-Ko, Pooh-Bah and Pish-Tush).............. . "1 am so proud" 10. Trio "With aspect stern and gloomy stride" 11 . Finale Act I ...........

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1. Solo (Pitti-Sing and Chorus of Girls)...... .... "Braid the raven hair" 2. Song (Yum-Yum).......... ......"The sun, whose rays are allablaze" "Brightly dawns our wedding day" 3. Madrigal (Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing,Nanki-Poo and Go-To) Trio (Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo and Ko-Ko) . "Here's a how-de-do! lf I marry you" 5.

Entrance of Mikado and Katisha ......"Mi-ya-sa-ma, mi-ya-sa-ma" 6.

Song........... ..."A more humane Mikado never did in Japan exist" (Mikado and Chorus) 7. Trio and Chorus ...."The criminalcried as he dropped him down" (Pitti-Sing, Ko-Ko, Pooh-Bah and Chorus) .........'See how the fates their gifts allot" B. G|ee...........

(Pitti-Sing, Katisha, Ko-Ko, Pooh-Bah and Mikado) Duet ...........

9. ...."The flowers that bloom in the spring" (Nanki-Poo and Ko-Ko with Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing and Pooh-Bah) 10. Recit and song (Katisha)..... ...."Alone, and yet alive" 11. Song (Ko-Ko) ......."On a tree by a rive, a little Tom-tit sang, Willow-tit-willow" "There is beauty in the below of the blast' 12. Duet (Katisha and Ko-Ko).

"For he's gone and married Yum-Yum" 13 Finale, Act 11..........

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DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION PRUE GARDINER

DRAMATIS PERSONAE The Mikado of

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Colin Jones

Nanki-Poo his

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Uihado Or The Town of Titipu Composed by Arthur Sullivan

MUSICAL DIRECTOR ALLAN THOMAS

JAPANESE LADIES & GENTLEMEN ElinorAshby, Margaret Brown, Hazel Daniels, Jan Faulkner, Shirley Hale, Hilary Hull, Jenny Jackson, Juliet Jones, Margaret Magee, Pam Massey, CarolWallman, Annie Wood, Becky Wright Steve Bartlett, Mike Cocke, John Epton, Andrew Hodges, Alex Saunders

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PETER DAVIS

PEEP.BO

AMYTAYLOR PISH.TUSH

GO.TO

COLIN JONES

MIKE COCKE

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