The Mikado
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Search complete. 54 mentions across 23 episodes found for "The Mikado".
Oct 15, 2026
Jack BennyHOST
[upbeat music]That was Don't Worry About Me, sung by Kenny Baker.
Jack BennyHOST
And Kenny, before I forget, I, uh, saw your picture The Mikado last night, and I thought you were swell in it.
Jack BennyHOST
You looked great in Technicolor.
Phil HarrisPANELIST
Oh, I thought I was too darn pretty.
Jack BennyHOST
No.
speaker_8UNKNOWN
[laughs]
Jack BennyHOST
Anyway, The Mikado was a swell picture, Kenny, and you were grand in it.
Phil HarrisPANELIST
The Mikado.
Mike MorfordGUEST
When you base that, when you base on some of the other clues, he mentioned, uh, the short story The Most Dangerous Game.
Mike MorfordGUEST
He makes references to theatrical stuff like The Mikado.
Mike MorfordGUEST
Um, so it, it seems like he was in his own fantasy world.
Mike MorfordGUEST
Um, and this, this person that he created, this persona, I, I really think he, he wanted to be some kind of arch villain or be known as, as one.
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Mike MorfordGUEST
Um, I look towards a younger person.
Mike MorfordGUEST
And, and other times, some of the things that he's interested in seem like they might be more of a, of a mature person.
Mike MorfordGUEST
Um, so like the Mikado opera, you know.
Mike MorfordGUEST
Like, like nowadays I try and compare it ...
Sebastian FaulksGUEST
...
Sebastian FaulksGUEST
but they, they put on The Mikado.
Matt WilliamsHOST
Oh.
Sebastian FaulksGUEST
And this is something I did hear from, uh, one of the many, many, um, you know, spoken records that I heard.
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Sebastian FaulksGUEST
[laughs]
Simon MayoHOST
My dad was, he was a huge fan.
Simon MayoHOST
And the production of The Mikado would've been very entertaining.
Sebastian FaulksGUEST
[laughs]
Adam MontielHOST
And when I say big, I mean full grand orchestra, 70-person chorus, including 30 local kids, two story sets, an internationally acclaimed cast, and enough Gilbert and Sullivan mischief to make you wonder how something written in the 1800s can still feel this sharp.
Adam MontielHOST
The Mikado takes over the Performing Arts Center in San Luis Obispo October 17th and 18th.
Adam MontielHOST
Coming up, and Brian Alhadeff, also Luana from Opera SLO, here to tell us how this massive countywide collaboration is all coming together.
Adam MontielHOST
Why this also might be the show that convinces people who think opera isn't for them, that they have really been missing out.
Adam MontielHOST
The mountainair.com. Also theswitchback.com. Mountain Air, San Luis Obispo.
speaker_1NARRATOR
It's Up and Adam with Adam Montiel.
Adam MontielHOST
Opera SLO is about to turn the Performing Arts Center into the fictional town of Titipu with the region's first grand production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado.
Adam MontielHOST
And grand is the word here.
Janice PetersGUEST
[laughs]
Dave CongaltonHOST
Um, Brian, uh, Aladef was here yesterday, and I noticed with The Mikado, both shows are afternoon matinees.
Janice PetersGUEST
Ah, yeah.
Dave CongaltonHOST
Does that surprise you?
Jack BennyHOST
Uh, what's it going to be, Kenny?
Kenny BakerGUEST
I'm going to play the leading role in The Mikado.
Jack BennyHOST
Well, well.
Don WilsonNARRATOR
Oh, that's swell, Kenny.
Don WilsonNARRATOR
That's wonderful
Jack BennyHOST
...
Jack BennyHOST
The Mikado.
Jack BennyHOST
I know you'll be great in it, Kenny.
Matt GiulianoHOST
Western art also has a long history of using yellowface, which is white actors pretending to be Asian characters, sometimes in really exaggerated and cartoonish ways.
Matt GiulianoHOST
This goes back at least to Gilbert and Sullivan's very popular and popularizing comic opera The Mikado, but continued with Pacini's Madame Butterfly and Turandot to the Charlie Chan movies in the 1930s and 40s, Breakfast at Tiffany's in the 1960s, the Kung Fu television series in the 1970s, the live-action Ghost in the Shell film from 2017, etc., etc., For an underrepresented demographic, this sort of erasure is, of course, not ideal, to say the least.
Matt GiulianoHOST
So a company can, like Opera Orlando did, at least cast Asian actors in the Asian roles.
Matt GiulianoHOST
Impacts.
Dave CongaltonHOST
[upbeat music] All right.
Dave CongaltonHOST
We're gonna start the week on Monday with the maestro Brian Escher Aladef from Opera Slough as they get ready to stage The Mikado.
Dave CongaltonHOST
Michael Boyer and Cornell Martin from the Diversity Coalition of San Luis Obispo County will also join us.
Dave CongaltonHOST
We've got more candidates coming in.
Eddie McNamaraGUEST
I don't think he was doing it for a very long time, but I think he was doing it throughout the 1970s.
Eddie McNamaraGUEST
Some of the, uh, the more sort of dramatic Zodiac letters that maybe, like, quote The Mikado and make pop culture references like The Exorcist or talk about newspaper columnists like Herb Caen or talk about Dave Toschi, I think things like that he may have been responsible for.
Eddie McNamaraGUEST
Um, and this shows up in the FBI reports, uh, in 1979 and 1981.
Eddie McNamaraGUEST
There's three or four times, and they remove the Toschi-associated letters from the Zodiac's profile.
speaker_0HOST
She had an unbounded affection and admiration for George and said that he was a great and good man to whose memory she dedicated her autobiography, My Life Story.
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In 1885, she gained much praise as the female lead in the first Australian production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado.
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This operetta proved hugely popular at the time.
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When the new Princess Theatre opened, Nellie had again been featured in The Mikado.
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Her success made it an ideal choice for her to send off and the Melbourne newspaper The Argus described it as being the latest and most adapted to her rapidly growing talent.
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A program printed purple on silk was produced especially for the occasion.
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