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(I'm sorry for linking to Evil Spotify - but I'm pretty sure the version on YouTube is sped up.)

With all the getting brow-beaten by life and CPTSD, I don't have many "glimmers" left… Except when I rediscover certain bits of music. It's been a while since I listened to The Mikado top to bottom, and I forgot how utterly delightful the "With laughing song and merry dance / Then let the throng our joy advance" choral bit is.

Starting about 2:21 (busts loose about 2:46) - bit of an interlude - then a reprise until 4:20ish with Katisha's entrance. (This Act I finale track also features one of Pitti-Sing's (who I played ca. 2015 in a local production) little mini solos.) (Being one of the few people on stage who could take that high Bb for "joyous, joyous shout" in the chorus was a thrill, too.)
The Mikado, Act I: Finale. With Aspect Stern and Gloomy Stride
https://open.spotify.com/track/3PL3azadruMsHTCp9DrVjP

Then you get a taste of it again in the Act 2 finale… just deliciously giddy music.
The Mikado, Act II: Finale. For He's Gone and Married Yum-Yum
https://open.spotify.com/track/6CJ5666MTSP4sp7woonfZY

#Gilbert-&-Sullivan #Gilbert-and-Sullivan #The-Mikado #operetta #classical-music #glimmers #Welsh-National-Opera

The Mikado, Act I: Finale. With Aspect Stern and Gloomy Stride

Arthur Sullivan, Sir Charles Mackerras, Welsh National Opera Orchestra, Richard van Allan, Richard Stuart, Nicholas Folwell, Marie McLaughlin, Janice Watson, Anne Howells, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Felicity Palmer · Gilbert & Sullivan: The Mikado · Song · 1992

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ThameTheatre Aug 16, 2025

#JustAnnounced
The Mikado - but set in Ancient Rome!
2 performances - Sat 15th Nov 3pm & 7:45pm
www.thameplayers.co.uk/events/the-mikado
@OperaAnywhere's new take on this well-loved classic.
In aid of the Mayor of Thame charities.
Adults £20, concs £18, U16s £10
#gilbertandsullivan #themikado

lachlan slowly taming rust Apr 21, 2025

The great thing of going #CoverDiving (although, that doesn't really work... more just performances) of "I've got a little list" from #GilbertAndSullivan's #TheMikado (or "The Modern-Major Generals Song") is that you get to hear new lyrics as well as little differences musically.

Zaphod Beeblebrox Apr 1, 2025

Three Little Maids from Shaftesbury are thee
Versed as Schoolgirls Well Can Be
Each hath Stolen My Heart
But they’re Married to God from the Very Start

#MedievalBreakupSongsOrPoems
#HashtagGames
#TheMikado
#GilbertAndSullivan

naladahc Feb 22, 2025

I was introduced to "The Mikado" and the song "Three Little Maids From School Are We" in of all place Goldie Hawn's 1978 film "Foul Play"

I had no understanding of the odd Japanese-centric fetishism of it skewed through British eyes, but I loved it nonetheless. I still would love to see a full live performance of the show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHHumS1zeNQ

#themikado #music #musicaltheater #gilbertandsullivan

'Three Little Maids From School Are We' (stereo version) The Mikado 1966 Gilbert & Sullivan

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Gregory Adams Fiction Dec 27, 2024

Narrator: In the Savoy Theater, The Mikado is created by two separate yet equally important persons: Gilbert, who writes the lyrics; and Sullivan, who composes the music. These is their story . #TopsyTurvy #themikado #gilbertandsullivan

Karen Simmons Aug 22, 2023

One of my fave films about the theatre world (it’s a bio-pic of sorts of the creation & very first production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s Mikado); gorgeous production values, great cast (Jim Broadbent is especially good as Gilbert; I always thought it was funny that such a grouchy curmudgeon wrote such silly & joyful lyrics!😁), and beautiful musical score, of course! Very underrated film! #gilbertandsullivan #JimBroadbent #themikado

Una McCormack Aug 6, 2023

I’ve watched three different productions of #TheMikado over the last week or so, and Trump has been on the little list in two of them.

Julie Howlin Mar 14, 2023

The Mikado might never have existed but for a bit of dodgy DIY. WS Gilbert said that he was inspired to write it when a Japanese sword fell off the wall in his study.

10 things you might not know about The Mikado:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2023/03/14-march-mikado.html

#TheMikado #GilbertAndSullivan #Music #Operettas #OTD #OnThisDay #ThisDayInHistory