The Mikado
The legendary Gilbert and Sullivan troupe the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company joined forces with Hollywood for this 1939 Technicolor version of the beloved comic opera The Mikado, the first work by the famed duo to be adapted for the screen. Directed by musician and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Victor Schertzinger, it is a lavish cinematic retelling of the British political satire set in exotic Japan, with such enduringly popular numbers as “A Wand’ring Minstrel I” and “Three Little Maids from School,” and featuring American singer Kenny Baker as well as a host of renowned D’Oyly Carte performers, including Martyn Green and Sydney Granville.
Special Features
- Newly remastered digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- New video interviews with Topsy-Turvy director Mike Leigh and Mikado scholars Josephine Lee and Ralph MacPhail Jr.
- Short silent film promoting the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company’s 1926 stage performance of The Mikado
- Deleted scene with Ko-Ko’s “I’ve Got a Little List” song
- Excerpts from 1939 radio broadcasts of the stage productions The Swing Mikado and The Hot Mikado
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: A new essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien
New cover by Yuko Shimizu
Special Features
- Newly remastered digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- New video interviews with Topsy-Turvy director Mike Leigh and Mikado scholars Josephine Lee and Ralph MacPhail Jr.
- Short silent film promoting the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company’s 1926 stage performance of The Mikado
- Deleted scene with Ko-Ko’s “I’ve Got a Little List” song
- Excerpts from 1939 radio broadcasts of the stage productions The Swing Mikado and The Hot Mikado
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: A new essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien
New cover by Yuko Shimizu
Cast
- Kenny Baker
- Nanki-Poo
- Martyn Green
- Ko-Ko
- Sydney Granville
- Pooh-Bah
- John Barclay
- The Mikado
- Gregory Stroud
- Pish-Tush
- Jean Colin
- Yum-Yum
- Constance Willis
- Katisha
- Elizabeth Paynter
- Pitti-Sing
- Kathleen Naylor
- Peep-Bo
Credits
- Director
- Victor Schertzinger
- Based upon the opera by
- W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
- By arrangement with
- Rupert D’Oyly Carte
- Adapted, conducted, and produced by
- Geoffrey Toye
- Production manager
- Phil C. Samuel
- Associate producer
- Josef Somlo
- Decor by
- Vertés
- Recorded by
- The London Symphony Orchestra
- Recorded by
- the chorus of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company
- Technicolor photography
- William V. Skall
- Cameraman
- Bernard Knowles
- Art director
- Ralph Brinton
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