Presented by The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Edinburgh (Ama teu ,<)

King's Theatre, Edinburgh

Tuesday lOt\' Marcil - Saturday, j 4t\' l''larck 1992

Programme The Gilbert & Sullivan Coach Services Society of Edinburgh for Edinburgh Hon. President and the Lothians THE L ORI) PROVOST OF EDINBU RGH TI'IE RIGHT H ON. MRS ELEANOR M c LA G I-IUN TOURS & EXCURSIONS Coach tours run throughout the year from our central pick-up point at Waverley Bridge. Hon. Vice-Presidents As well as our frequent open-top, double-deck Edinburgh Classic Tour, we also operate DR JAC K KAN E doy and half-day excursions th roughout Scotl and and Northern England. Ask for your COUNC ILLOR ERIC M ILLIGAN copy of our su mmer leaflet which is now available. MR BRUCE GRAI-IAM PRIVATE CHARTER Our luxury coaches and double-deck buses are available to groups at competitive rotes for journeys throughout Britain and Europe. Ferries, theatre tickets, meals and accommodation can olso be arranged. Why not hire our popular open-top double­ deckers " Northern Star" and " Caledonian Star" for your next local outing? COACH HOLIDAYS Please ask for our brochure which fully describes dozens of holidoys to 0 wide voriety of destinotions throughout Britain, Southern Irelond ond mainland Europe, of which a sample is listed. Our prices include travel and cancellation insurance. 12days from £449 MIKADO Monday, 1June Bavarian Foresl and Blue Danube THE Friday, 19Juneand21 Augusl Smiling Emerald Isle 8doys from £353 or Thursday, 10Seplember Floriade 6 days from£214 Thursday, 17 Seplember The Rhine in Flames 6 days from £245 Thursd'3' 8 Oc/ober and Euro Disneyland 6 days from £237 The T OW11 of Titipu 15 etober Friday, 10April Lancashire Mil/s and Markels 4 days from£119 by Thursdar.- 16April Easler Eggslravaganza 5 days from£155 Friday, May Lincolnshire Tuliplime 4 days £130 VVednesda~, 6May Bargain Myslery Holiday 3 days from £74 w. S. GILBERT & ART HUR SULLIVAN Salurda~, Mal and For North and Orkney 4 days £130 12 eplem er Friday, ISMay Balh and The Colswo/ds 4 days from£141 Salurda~, 23 May and Slralhpefferand VI/apaal 7days £190 26 eplember Producer Musical Director from £106 Monday, 1 June and 5 OC/ober Lakes, Dales and Morecambe Bay 5 days ALAN B ORTH W IC K D AVID L. L YLE Friday, S June and 4 Seplember Bournemoulh 10 days £325 Saturday, 4 July Easlbaurne 9days fram£30S Monday, 13July Lavender and Roses 6 days £196 Assistant Producer Repetiteur Friday, 31 July and 28 Augusl Hebridean Hideaway 4 days fram£IS1 Monday, 10Augusl England's Eastern Caunlies 6 days £196 GRAHAM GORDON SIMON H UGHES Friday, 18 Seplember Malvern Hills, Hereford and 4 days from£137 VVorcester We also operate "Heritage Holidays" in association with the National Trust far Scotland and these are described in 0 speciolleoflel available on request. Lothian Region Transport pic STOP PRESS: NeX I year's production wi ll be Utopia Limited. 14 Queen Street and Waverley Bridge For further detail s. or information about auditions, please contact Edinburgh Mrs J. Bruce (03 1-6610453). Telephone: 5544494 Office-Bearers Synopsis

President Ko- Ko. a cheap tail or of Titipu, his inability to marry Yum-Yum , IAN LAWSON having been condemned to death for ag rees to be beheaded in a month on flirtin g, is reprieved and raised to condition that he be permitted to Vice-President Immediate Past President the exa lt ed rank of Lord High marry Yum-Yum at once. However, LI z LAN DSMAN DAV IDS MITH Executioner. When Nanki-Poo arrives this argument is seriously fl awed, for it Council in the town . fl eeing to escape the is discovered that when a married man NI COLA CLA RE DONALD CRAIG ANDR EWGR EEN attentions of an elderly lady named is beheaded his wife must be buried DOROTHY HURST GARETH JACOBS CAROL V,CKERS Katisha , he fall s madl y in love with ali ve . L, ZWARD M,CKEY YORK Yum-Yum . the Ward of Ko-Ko. In the midst of this dilemma. the U nfo rtunate ly. as Yum -Yum is Mikado arrives and Ko- Ko pretends Hon. Secretary Hon. Membership Secretary Hon. Treasurer betrothed to her guardian, their case that he has beheaded Nanki-Poo. He MARGA RET GR ANT JACOU IE BRUCE DOUG LAS LAW seems a hopeless one. is somewhat taken aback when he then 81 CA RRI CK KNO WE GDNS. 19 PAISLEYCRES CENT 47 BELGRAVE ROAD A lett er arri ves from learns that Nanki-Poo is the Mikado's EDINBU RGH EHl27EQ EDINBURGH EH87JQ ED INBU RGH EHI26NH a nn o un cin g that somebod y must son and that hi s punishment . and th at be beheaded within the month and of his compatriots. will be instant Hon. Assistant Secretary Hon. Assistant Treasurer Ko- Ko rac ks hi s brains to think of a death - after lunch' ! MARGAR ET CORMACK ISABEL CA MPB ELL suitable vi ctim . A solution is found in the nick of Nanki-Poo. overcome with grief at time .. .

The "Reckft'l's Olu/U" from "Th e G rand D uke", ollr 1991 productioll . About the Opera .. THE CITY OF EDINBURGH ING'S DISTRICT COUNCIL "The Mikado" is , withoul doubl, Ihe occasion he allowed some of Ihe gags K THEATRE besl known of all the Gilbert & Sullivan 10 be relained. A few of his 1908 EDINBURGH DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION works. At the time of its inception Ihe additi ons, authorised by Gilbert, have INFORMA TION parlners had been writing together for been inserled IO night and many of you 14 years and Sullivan was beginning to who know every word and note of Ihe Theatre Ma nager CIIRIS POTTER express his dislike of the genre - work may care 10 spot them! As well as Assistant Manager KENGRAY although nOI of Ihe cash Ihal came wi lh having gags added to the scripl the Theatre Assistant LlNDSA Y YOUNG il! However, Gilbert's ideas for a show has frequently been presented in Resident Stage M~mager IAINGILLESPIE J apanese opera fired Sullivan 10 rewrillen guise as , for example, "The Assisted by WILLIE DONAGIIY . GEORGE EWING . EDDI E !'RECHETTEand compose his very best music and Cool Mikado" (1962 film) , "The Hot FRAN K WRIGHT ChierEleclrician ANDY DEVENPORT together Ihey presenled the world with Mikado" (New York, 1939), and "The Deputy Chier Electrician STEWA RT McGILL one of the mosl perfeci works of art in Swing Mikado" (Chicago, 1938). At Assisted by JOHN DR EVER the English language. Its inilial run al least presenters of these versions had Senior Clerical Assistant GORDO N MACLEOD the , which started on Ihe courtesy to change Ihe litle so that Box Office Supen'isor DORA BROWN 141h March, 1885 , strelched 10 672 audiences were forewarned. A recent nox Office Assistants ELA INE BANKS, CATIIlE EDDI E. ANNA NUGENT, MARGARET performances and led to productions produclion in London set the opera in MURRA Y• KATE PALUCIIOWSKI. ANDRENA STIRLING all over Ihe world. In 1939 it became an Engli sh seaside town , performed it BOX OFFI CE Open JO.OO a. m.-7.JOp.m. MondaytoSalurday. Tel: 031-2291201 Ihe firsl of the Gilberl & Sullivan a la Noel Coward and had Ihe male (IO.OOa.m. -6.00 p.m. non-performance days) operas to be filmed. chorus pulling at Iheir eyes 10 suggest Uyou wish 10 book by post please make a cheque payable 10 Ed inburgh Despile, or perhaps because of, Japanese features. The show was a District Council . Regret no telephone bookingsexcepl by Visa and ils popularily, in 1907 the Lord wonderful success with critics and Access. Chamberl ain announced a ban on audiences alike - but was it "The Please check tickets on receipt. Tickets ca nnol be exchanged nor money performances so as not to offend Mikado"? refunded. Crown Prince Fushimi of Japan who Which brings me 10 loni ght's show. CONCESS IO NS A ,'ariel)' or concessions are ava ilable throughout the yea r depending on was visi ting Britain. His Lordship had , Of all Ihe works I've direcled for theauraction . Please phone Box Office ror special details. of course, 100all y missed the poinl. the Gilberl & Sullivan Society of CAMERAS The use orCameras and Tape Recorders is expressly rorbidden. "The Mikado" is as British as roaSI beef Edinburgh, "The Mikado" has posed WRIST WATCII ALARMS P1easeswitch orrthe alarm on your digital wrisl walch bdore taking your and Yorkshire pudding, its satire and the mosl problems, It is notoriously seat. ba r bed hum o ur being pointe d more difficult to direci a masterpiece INTERVAL DRINKS Please order your Interval Drinks prior to the conunencemenl orlhe directly al Brilish institutions and than to make a case for one of the Evening Show and save yourselrthe rrustration orqueuingat the Bar. customs, and hilling Ihe mark far more lesser-known pieces such as lasl DI SA BLED Should any oryour party be disabled please inrorm the Box Office when season's "The Grand Duke", and , purchasing tickets and appropriate seats will be allocated . accurately because of its Japanese disguise. Some of Ihis satire may have despile Ihe lemplations 10 dabble wilh GENE RAL IN!'ORMATION Smoking is not allowed in the Auditorium . a "new-concept", I have sell led on Ihe Latecomers may nol be admitted after the riseorlhecurtain, though faded , bUI enough remains valid today enryerrorl will be made 10 find them seats al asuilable break in the so Ihat we can appreciale the effeci decision to be Irue to what I perceive action . Gilberl 's li brello must have had on his were the author's original intentions The Management rt'Sern the right 10 rduseadmission and to make an)' 19th century audiences. and presenl a colourful , stylish and alteration in thecasl or programme which may be rendered neressary by For over a hundred years "The hopefully enlerlaining show. illness or other unnoidable causes. This programme is rully prot«led Mikado" has been one of the mosl This year we celebrate Ihe 150lh bycopyright and noth ing may be printed wholl)'orin part without frequently played of all Brilish slage anniversary of Ihe birth of Sir Arthur permission . properties, and as such the opera has Sullivan - and , in my own small way, ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The King's Theatre wish to thank the St. Andre",-sAmbulance Association who are in attendance at all perrormances. been subjecled to many li berlies. I'm celebrali ng Ihe 30th anniversary of These started early when RUll and my joining the Gilbert & Sullivan Barrington, the original Pooh-Bah, Sociely of Edinburgh (as a babe-in­ introduced gags into hi s arms, of course). Hopefull y these pOrlrayal. Gilberl , who disliked events will be capped by a successful CREDIT CA R D HOTLINE anyone tampering with hi s work , was show. I awail yourverdicl ! always chastising Barrington, but on ALAN BORTHWI CK DraDlatis Personae

DraDlatis Personae

The Mikado of Japan ...... ROLAND Y ORK Chorus of Schoolgirls Nanki-Poo (his son, disguised as a wandering minstrel CLAIRE B ORTl1WICK P ETER AIKMAN J OYCE B OYO and in love with Yum- Yum) ...... COLIN FLEMI NG BRIAN CAD DOW CAMINA B ROWN K o-Ko (Lord High Executioner of Titipu) ...... MAXWELL SM ART GORDON CAMPBELL J ACOUIE B RUCE STEWART COGHILL DOREEN CAD DOW Pooh-Bah (Lord High Everything Else) ...... JAM ES C. DINSMORE D ONALD CRAIG' M ARGARET CORMACK R OLAND D EN ISDN ALISON CRICHTON Pish-Tush (A Noble Lord) ...... G EO RGE M cH oLLAN GRAHAM GORDON ANN CROMBIE Go-To ...... A NDREW GREEN A NDREW H ARRIS K ATE D UFFI ELD T ERRY H OLMES • S ALL Y F ALCONER Yum-Yum } FIONA SCR IMGER R ON H OUSE ANN GORDON J ONATHAN H UGHES EMMA GREEN Pitti-Si ng (Three Sisters - Wards of Ko-Ko) ...... CHRISTINE L ES LI E GARETH J ACOBS H ELEN I NGLI S Peep-Bo HAZEL CLARKE P AUL J O HNSON ELIZABETH J ACKSON C H ARLES L AING · J ANE K NOX K atisha (an elderly lady in love with Nanki-Poo) ...... H EATH ER BOYD D AVID L AMB LIz L ANDSMAN J O HN M c ELWEE ' N O RMA M ACD oNALD D AVID M c NAUGHTON EVEL YN M c H oLLAN STEPHEN M ORRIS P AT M c K ERROW J O I-IN R EID • R UTH M c L AREN B RIAN R OBERTSON ' M A IRAD M ORRIS GRAHAM SIMPSON M AUREEN R OBERTSON D AVID SMITH J ACOUELINE SMITH K ATH ARINE TA YLOR Japanese Dogs LINOSEY T ERR IS W ENDY B ORTHWICK OVERTURE A NNE THOMSON ANDREW CRAWFORD • B ARBARA TIIOMSON Act I: Courtyard of Ko- Ko's Offi cial Residence ' Denotes understudy ELIZABETH TIIOMSON Act II: Ko-Ko's Garden CARYNNE W ALTON MICK EY Y O RK • Denoles undersludy effervescence of the plot. The quaver figure at " Hearts do not break" About the music . . . opening, male chorus is set perfectly giving way to more lyrical, repeated for the greatest vocal effect and the quavers, fo llowed by strings playing In 1884, Sulli van's score for " Princess Sullivan found that the variety of the women , in turn , have a delightful "tremolando", at u ~ h , li vi ng, I". Ida" had been high ly praised by lyrics and their adaptability to counterpart in the tranquility of the As was quite usual, both Sullivan many critics, the Sunday Times , in character all owed him to model his opening to Act 2. ( Interestingly, and Gilbert made alte rati ons to the particular, considering it his best yet. musical shapes on the author's poetic Su lli van eschews one of his favourite original text and score, after the first However, box office receipts had ones; the insistent alliteration of the devices in "The Mikado" - the double performance; these are incorporated started to fall by March of that year words in the duet "There is beauty in chorus - but one hardly notices its in the pri nted vocal score and mirrored (the opera having opened in January) the bellow of the blast", for example, absence amid the wealth of inspired in the D'Oyly Cart e band parts, which and D'Oyly Carte had written to both is mirrored in the melody, and internal solos and ensembles with whi ch the I am using. The Overture, not one of Sullivan and Gilbert, requesting them rhymes are set to the same musical score abounds.) Su lli van's but, probably, by Francois to start work immediately on a new phrase. The wonderful contrapuntal Sullivan's love of the madrigal form Cell ier or Hamilton Clarke, is being piece, to replace " Ida" in the summer. interlocking of the three different is now here more beautifu ll y played in its uncut version ; it may not This letter prompted Sullivan to melodies in the trio " I am so proud", epitomised than in the exquisite be of the stylistic quality of " Iolanthe" have one of his periodic fits of doubt as shows superb musical resource and '" Brightly dawns" , in Act 2, where the or " Yeomen", but I think it is, to whether he could continue to write manages to convey the characters of character Go-To has his moment of nevertheless, a splendid opening to a comic opera, and he had , in turn, the protagonists very clearly - Pooh­ musical glory. entering to provide the work of perennial fresh ness and written a frank letter to Gilbert in Bah's line is rather solemn a nd bass line in preference to the lighter vitali ty. Perhaps the "Theatre" review which he stated, " ... My tunes are in pompous, whereas Ko-Ko's is more baritone required by Pish-Tush. And of March , 1885, best sums it up; danger of becoming mere repetitions agitated; Pish-Tush is a ll o tted a Sulli van's softening of Gilbert'S at "Nothing fres her, gayer or more ... the music is never allowed to ri se dignified but alert line with more than times harsh treatment of elderly, captiva ting has ever bid for public and speak for itself ... I should like to a hint of dry humour, and the piece spinster women reaches one of its favour th a n thi s delightfu l set a story of human interest and ends with splendid elan, as the three heights in Act 2 also, where he sets co mposition. " probability. " contemplate the somewhat dubious Katisha's anguished plea, "Alone, and After Sullivan ' s refusal t o pleasure of the "big, black block" . yet ali ve" to music of great tenderness DAVID LYLE Musical Director contemplate yet another reworking of The orchestration shows, again , the and true pathos, the worried semi- the " lozenge" plot , Gilbert produced supreme mastery Sullivan has in the the draft of "The Mikado", with which restricted medium of the "pit" band Sullivan was enchanted, setting to and the score is, throughout, li ght­ work as soon as Gilbert's first lyri cs years away from the mundane and 30 Ferryfield arrived on his desk. (It is ironic, usually pedes trian o r c he s tra l Edinburgh EH5 2PR however, that he should accept the "accompaniments" which Sullivan's plot as a story of "human interest and contemporaries utilised. As ever, the Tel 031 552 5980 probability", as "The Mikado" is score perfectly balances the mood of Fox 031 551 1114 almost pure nonsense fro m start to the moment and bri stles wi th felicities Cor phone 0831 408800 finish!) which continue to enchant over 100 So, somewhat inauspiciously, was years after they we re first heard. born what was to become their most Listen, for example, to the deftly famous - and greatest - coll aboration. thrown-in reference to Bach's "Greaf' Try a small It won superl ative notices from the G-minor fugue which appears in the beginning and every number shows Mikado's song, and to the woodwind independent Sullivan at the peak of hi s powers. "shri eks" which mirror Pitti-Si ng's He was surely aided in achi eving words in the trio, "The criminal company and this consistent quality by Gilbert's cried". Both soloists and chorus are inspired lyrics, which clothe a given music of a quality rarely found supremely Engli sh confection in a in , and which bubbles and see the Japanese mask. spark les in keepi ng w ith th e OFFICE SUPPLIES difference! Orchestra Backstage and Technical Stafffor the Society

Timpani and Percussion Stage Manager Properties Strings J ACOB PERR Y flute BILLHuME ROSALYN AND IAN M c FARLANE ELIZABETH CLEMENT leader Deputy Stage Manager CONNIE H AY Woodwind R OBIN ADAIR violin F RANK CLARE D AVID L ESLIE Prompters ELIZABETH CURRY violin flute Set Designed by M AUREEN ADAMSON MICHAEL P RYCE flute A NNALIESE D AGG violin ALAN B ORTHWICK M U RI EL ARMSTRONG CHARLES DODDS oboe VICfORIA DUFFES violin JANE B ORTHWICK R ONALD M ACKIE clarinet Set Construction and Stage Crew J OHN HILEY violin BILL H uME KATHERINE M ATHIESON clarinet B RI AN CADDOW ALISON L UCAS violin FRANK CLARE ALISON BAROGErf bassoon CYNTHIA CLARE FIONA M ORISON violin Set Painter J O HN SEATON violin NICOLA CLARE Brass JIM CURSITER K ENNETH GRANT NEILSHARP violin DAVID RIMER horn Stage Carpenter J ON H UME K EVIN O ' D ONNELL viola M ARIAN KIRTON horn GEORGE GRANT l A IN LAIDLAW HILARyTuRBAYNE viola GORDON THOMSON trumpet Lighting Designer SIIEONAGH M ARTIN ASTRID GORRIE cello ANDREW KINNEAR trumpet A NDREW WILSON GEORGE M c H oLLAN GEORGE R EID cello J OHN ADAM trombone MAURICE M c lLWRICK FIONA D ONALDSON bass NEIL SHORT trombone Wardrobe Mistress DAVID NICOL JANE B ORTHWICK assi st ed by J ANE PINNOCK GAIL COOPER ELSPETH LEISHMAN Ticket Sales and Theatre Liaison FLORENCE J ONES I SABEL CAMPBELL JINTY SMART Publicity JANIS CRAIG ISABEL CAMI'BELL Costumes MARGARET CORMACK Designed and executed by GARETH J ACOBS JANE B ORTHWICK assisted by LIz LANDSMAN members of the cast Publicity Artwork Wigs J ANE B ORTHWICK A. & A. WIG PRODUCfIONS LTD. DAUPHINE'S OF B RISTOL Posters, Programme and Front of House Photographs Publicity Material J O HN LYNCH B UCCLEUCH PRINTERS. H A WICK TOM W ATTERS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to express our thanks to all those who have given help in the presentation of "The Mikado" - Brian Caddow for designing and making the gent lemen's fans. Bermans for providing Ih e Japanese dogs, North British Distill ery Co. Ltd .. The Makars. 1. Fairbairn (Joiners), NOrlh Leith Parish Church , Janil or of Craiglockharl School, Martyn Strachan, Pinegrove Garden Ce ntre. Kirk Session and Church Officers of Davidson's Mains Parish Church, and 10 the many ot hers who have helped in some way to make thi s production possible; and finally to the resident staff of th e King 's Theatre who do so much to make a visit

Next SlOp ,he King's . .. th e stage crew load the sci for "The Gralld Duke" 01110 the l'lm (1/ the l)lIck of tilt· to their theatre for both audi ence and performers so enjoyable. SCl'lIery Slore . Wed 18th March - Sat 11th April Evenings 7.30pm; Wed & Sat Mats. 2.30pm HALF PRICE PREVIEW Tues 17th March

Two leams of swimmers from Ihe Society look pari in "Splash '92 " at Ilu.' Royal Commol/we(lltll Pool in aid of the Sick Kids Appl'af. '{he

,nd ly,i" by Come and see us again next year ~"''' RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN in a SPECIAL CENTENARY PRODUCTION of UTOPIA LIMITED byW. S. Gilbert &

Spring 1993

KING'S THEATRE, EDINBURGH (Open lOam - 5pm; Mon - Sat) o Box Office Tel 031229 1201 From the team that brought you "The Mikado " (Open lOam - 7.30pm Mon - Sat) Producer: ALAN BORTHWICK Musical Director: DAVID L. LYLE 300 performers from Japan bring you A FESTIVAL OF JAPANESE CULTURE at THE ASSEMBLY ROOMS, EDINBURGH ~ Tuesday 9th - Friday 12th June, 1992 Here are just some of the events being brought to you : Demonstration of Ikebana or Japanese Flower Arranging Calligraphy - H ave your name w ritten in Japanese! Origami - the fascinating art of Paper Folding live performances of Traditional Music and Dance Photographic Exhibitions and T he G reat Kimono Fa shion Show! More information on 031-5574111

SPECIAL OFFER! FESTIVAL OF JAPANESE CULTURE, 1992 Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Tuesday 9th - Friday 12th June, 1992 TWO FOR THE PRICE OF ONE! Please exchange your voucher at the ticket desk at the Festival

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