The Mikado

I REALLY wish I could give this production 4½ stars. I find that I didn't really like it -- but I didn't really DISlike it, either.

This is the first time I have ever seen a production of the Mikado . I have to say I have never enjoyed a show so much .

The Mikado is a movie that should appeal to those who like musicals or those 35 and older. Older children may enjoy watching the movie with their parents as a family movie.

I'm not a big Gilbert & Sullivan fan, but I greatly enjoyed this production of The Mikado. I saw it last week and have been unable to get many of the songs out of my head.

I was very disappointed by this production. I am sure Opera Australia are capable of doing better.

One of the very few British Technicolor features in which Jack Cardiff played no part has to be this unique collaboration between Hollywood and D'Oyly Carte shot in pretty pastel shades entirely on studio sets with an American director and star.The fact it runs a mere 90 minutes indicates drastic pruning of the original; but D'Oyly Carte were satisfied with the result, it did good business and there might have been others had the war not intervened.

There is one bad bit of casting: Felicity Palmer, of that extraordinary voice, most definitely does not have "a caricature of a face." Even if she weren't lovely to look at, she is so very lovely to listen to.

Individually and as an ensemble, the performers are wonderful, marvelously talented, thoroughly watchable, and downright enchanting.Because a Facebook friend was in a recent Los Angeles production of "The Mikado," and I cheered him on, other friends mentioned other versions, including the English National Opera version (with Eric Idle).

The Mikado is one of Gilbert and Sullivan's finest operettas, I can't decide actually which is my favourite out of Mikado or Pirates of Penzance. Though all of G&S operettas do a great job at cheering you up after a hard day.