This is about the 1960 television film. For other versions of the same production, see The Mikado (disambiguation).
The Mikado.
The Mikado is a television film adaptation of the operetta of the same name.
Cast[]
- Groucho Marx - Ko-Ko
- Robert Rounseville - Nanki-Poo
- Stanley Holloway - Pooh-Bah
- Barbara Meister - Yum-Yum
- Melinda Marx - Peep-Bo
- Sharon Randall - Pitti-Sing
- Dennis King - The Mikado
- Helen Traubel - Katisha
Plot[]
In a mythical Japan, Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor, has been appointed Lord High Executioner and must find someone to execute before the arrival of the ruling Mikado. He lights upon Nanki-Poo, a strolling minstrel who loves the beautiful Yum-Yum. But Yum-Yum is also loved by Ko-Ko, and Nanki-Poo, seeing no hope for his love, considers suicide. Ko-Ko offers to solve both their problems by executing Nanki-Poo, and an agreement is reached whereby Ko-Ko will allow Nanki-Poo to marry Yum-Yum for one month, at the end of which Nanki-Poo will be executed, in time for the arrival of the Mikado. But what Ko-Ko doesn't know is that Nanki-Poo is the son of the Mikado and has run away to avoid a betrothal to an old harridan named Katisha. The arrival of the Mikado brings all the threads of the tale together.
Musical numbers[]
- "If you want to know who we are" - Chorus of Men
- "A Wand'ring Minstrel I" - Nanki-Poo and Men
- "Behold the Lord High Executioner" - Ko-Ko and Men
- "As some day it may happen" ("I've Got a Little List") - Ko-Ko and Men
- "Comes a train of little ladies" - Girls
- "Three little maids from school are we" - Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing, and Girls
- "Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted" - Yum-Yum and Nanki-Poo
- "With aspect stern" - Ensemble
- "Braid the raven hair" - Pitti-Sing and Girls
- "The sun whose rays are all ablaze" - Yum-Yum
- "Here's a how-de-do" - Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo and Ko-Ko
- "Mi-ya Sa-ma/From every kind of man obedience I expect" - Mikado, Katisha and Chorus
- "A more humane Mikado" - Mikado and Chorus
- "The criminal cried as he dropped him down" - Ko-Ko, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, Chorus
- "The flowers that bloom in the spring" - Nanki-Poo, Ko-Ko, Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, and Pooh-Bah
- "Alone, and yet alive" - Katisha
- "On a tree by a river ("Willow, tit-willow") - Ko-Ko
- "There is beauty in the bellow of the blast" - Katisha and Ko-Ko
- "For he's gone and married Yum-Yum" - Ensemble