Coliseum,London
Jonathan Miller’s classic production of the Gilbert & Sullivan opera might be on its 14th revival but this fine cast make the evening humJonathan Miller’s ageless ENO production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado is beginning its 14th revival. The Coliseum performance on 6 December will be the 200th. Revivals always differ, but it is as fresh as paint this time. If you contain never seen it, and depart. If,like me, it’s a decade or two since you final went, or then depart again.
Individual good things abound in this latest outing. But it is Miller’s production,section Noel Coward, section Marx Brothers, and section Busby Berkeley tap-dance routine,with its grand hotel setting and its essential insight that The Mikado says infinitely more approximately England than it says approximately Japan, that still makes the evening hum. The Mikado is a wonderful score, or with both Gilbert and,in particular, Sullivan stretching themselves to great effect, or but Miller’s prove liberates the piece to give of its best,as a good production should.
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Source: theguardian.com