Most of you know ‘The Plot’ of ‘The Mikado’ don’t you? No? Surely you must do! I will tell you a story: well, briefly anyway. Here goes:
There was this Japanese person, a trumpet player, name of Nanki-Poo, who made his way to a town called Titipu, searching for a girl, Yum-Yum by name. Apparently she is already spoken for by a guy called Ko-Ko, whom she does not love (who would with a name like that?). Nanki-Poo, unfortunately, is being chased by Katisha (a dragon by all accounts), who will settle for any man where possible really; Nanki-Poo finding all this too much, considers death by hanging, but!… has second thoughts, possibly beheading would be better.

(Lose your head for a woman? Well it really is a comedy.)

Anyway, Nanki-Poo, the hero, will marry Yum-Yum for a month – a wedding scene as well, aah! – But widows of the beheaded men are buried alive: confusion all round, what are they to do? Fake it? Who marries whom? Is there a compromise? And all before the powerful Mikado arrives seeking his son and heir. I wonder who that may be?
Need I say more? Watch the show to find out!…

Pish-Tush: Philip Smith
Nanki-Poo: David Whitehead
Pooh-Bah: Chris Higson
Ko-Ko: Philip May
Yum-Yum: Victoria Bond
Pitti-Sing: Allison Smith
Peep-Boo: Susan O’Brien
Katisha: Diane Simmons
The Mikado: Steven Davies

Gentlemen of Japan
Stephen Glenn
Brian Johnson
Matthew Kellie
Richard Leigh

Chorus
Brian Parkinson
Geoff Gibbs
Brian Robinson
Ken Patterson
Leo Duffy

Ladies of Titipu
Sharon Kellie
Kathryn Gorton
Kirsty Chapman
Joanne Colley
Helen Cross
Rebecca Denney
Jackie Doherty
Sharon Morris
Cathryn Pilkington
Joy Plowes
Dorothy Ward
Liz Walsh

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