The Mikado

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Audience Member I just married this miserable object. Ko-Ko has recently become part of the foolish city's leader's executioner's council. The leader looks at the execution list and sees it has been some time since there was a public execution. He assigns the newly appointed Ko-Ko next to be executed unless he can find a substitute. He seeks a love sick young man who recently lost his girl to take his place. The young man's love interest happens to be the princess, further complicating matters. "I shall have to execute someone at once." Victor Schertzinger, director of Kiss the Boys Goodbye, Road to Zanzibar, Forgotten Faces, Uptown New York, Thunder Mountain, Siberia, and The Lily, delivers The Mikado. The storyline for this picture was just okay and contains interesting characters and funny plots and sub plots. The acting was okay and appropriate for the content. "Burned alive? It's such a stuffy death." I came across this on Netflix and thought the cover looked cool so I gave it a shot. This was a very average parody that was just okay but entertaining and worth a viewing one lazy Sunday. This isn't as good as The Teahouse of the August Moon but it is worth watching once. "It takes years to train a man to love me." Grade: C Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member ok musical not my bag though Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member An accurate look at the original play. Great songs and plenty of humor. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member 0.5: I really hated this. It is just a straight-up filmed version of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado made in 1939 (i.e. there is no backstage drama, it is as if they filmed the play on-stage in London). I guess I didn't realize how lackluster the music was either. I can't recall ever seeing a musical with less to offer. The depiction of the Japanese people and culture is just ludicrous as well. Unless that was the point, but I don't get the sense they're that clever. They just seem like idiots. It's only value is to function as a historical document of what a stage version of the time must have been like, but I found no enjoyment in it whatsoever. Awful in every sense (i.e. the music, the choreography, the set design, the costumes, the make-up, the performances, the story, etc). Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member A very interesting chronicle of what the show looked like 75 years ago. Colorful and full of Technicolor magic. Still seems to be missing a certain something and I'm not sure I enjoyed it anymore than the 1983 production I did the lighting for! Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Too much Hollywood, and not enough Gilbert and Sullivan! Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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