#themikado — Public Fediverse posts

(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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

@willmckinley After the clip of Groucho in The Mikado, I immediately went to Amazon to order The Mikado on DVD. I guess a lot of viewers had the same idea because I ran into one “sold-out” after another. Finally snagged a copy at DeepDiscountDVD. Whew!
#GrouchoAndCavett
#GrouchoMarx
#TheMikado