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The Black Mikado
''The Black Mikado'' is a musical comedy, based on Gilbert and Sullivan's ''The Mikado'',〔(Home page ) at the ''Classic Gilbert and Sullivan'' website, accessed 24 November 2009〕 adapted by Janos Bajtala, George Larnyoh and Eddie Quansah from W. S. Gilbert's original 1885 libretto and Arthur Sullivan's score. The show premiered on 24 April 1975 at the Cambridge Theatre in London, where it ran for 472 performances before going on a national tour. A 1976 production was mounted in Soweto, South Africa, where it played at the Diepkloof Hall.〔Lindberg, Des and Dawn. (Des and Dawn Lindberg: Theatre Productions ), accessed 26 November 2009〕 After this, the musical was not revived.
==Production details==
The plot of ''The Black Mikado'' does not stray far from the Gilbert and Sullivan original, except that in the musical the action is set on a Caribbean island rather than in Japan. Sullivan's original score is rearranged into a mixture of rock, reggae, blues and calypso. The West End production was directed by Braham Murray with a nearly all black cast, the exception being veteran actor Michael Denison's Pooh-Bah,〔Fox, Mark. (History of the Cambridge Theatre ) on reallyuseful.com, accessed 23 November 2009〕 who was white and dressed in a white tropical suit and pith helmet. Theatre writer John Bush Jones says that the white Pooh-Bah was portrayed "as a lone scheming westerner, 'condescending' to serve an emerging black nationalist country for his own grafting purposes."〔Jones, John Bush. ("''Utopia, Limited''" ), ''Educational Theatre Journal'', Vol. 28, No. 1, March 1976, accessed 6 September 2013〕 The rest of the cast were dressed in what were basically African and Caribbean costumes, "some of which were made to look pseudo-Japanese", and the sets were Japanese.〔Walters, Michael. ("The Black Mikado", ) ''The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive'', reprint from ''Gilbertian Gossip'', No. 3, January 1976〕 Pooh-Bah is an uptight English colonial official who is contrasted with the sexy, exuberant Caribbean islanders. The Three Little Maids from School arrive dressed in uniforms from their proper English school, including, elbow-length gloves and straw boaters. As they sing of their freedom from the ladies seminary, they strip off their modest clothing until they are shown in their native dress.〔Lane, Terry. ("''The Black Mikado'' (1975)", ) ''A Gilbert and Sullivan Discography'', 25 November 2001, accessed 23 November 2009〕
The cast included Patti Boulaye (under the name Patricia Ebigwei) as Yum-Yum, Floella Benjamin as Pitti-Sing, Michael Denison as Pooh-Bah, Norman Beaton as Nanki-Poo, Derek Griffiths as Ko-Ko, Jenny McGusty as Peep-Bo, Vernon Nesbeth as Pish-Tush, Val Pringle as The Mikado and Anita Tucker as Katisha. Terry Lane wrote, "Norman Beaton was a very handsome young Nanki-Poo and Patricia Ebigwei was a heart-stoppingly beautiful Yum-Yum. The sexual tensions that are implicit in the plot were exploited to the full.... Patricia Ebigwei's version of 'The Sun Whose Rays' () the performance against which all others must now be judged ... a slow, erotic, languid ballad of vanity and sexual self-satisfaction that makes the conventional renditions seem prissy".〔
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