COMING SOON:
November 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 13th
Mesquite Jr. High Auditorium • Doors at 6:30pm • Curtain at 7pm
"Merely Corroborative detail . . ."
Join the Gilbert Fine Arts Association for a fun-filled operetta, The Mikado. In a fictional Japan where anyone who flirts is beheaded -- strange things are bound to occur...
What is a Japanese teenager to do when his father insists he marry an older woman? (Particularly if she's got a face that would stop a bullet train.) Add to this that father's word is law, because he's the Emperor of Japan, and he's also into heavy discipline. For example, he has passed some pretty stiff laws to keep young punks straight. You can't even dye your hair puce anymore, or scribble on windowpanes, and don't even think about cheating at billiards. What he's really hung up on though is flirting!
All you gotta do is wink at someone and you're immediately beheaded! I mean total bummer! Being fiscally conservative as well, the Emperor has restructured and rightsized the judicial system so that all judges perform their own executions, thus eliminating a lot of middle management fat. The obvious answer, if you are inflicted with such a father, is to join the homeless and find work as a street musician.
When the Emperor had his fun new laws executed (if you'll pardon the expression), a bunch of pseudo-intellectual town fathers in a burb called "Tikipu" came up with a loophole you could drive a car through. Since the next guy on death row in their town was a wimpy tailor who got caught flirting, they decide to promote him to be Lord High Executioner. The scam was based on the rather thin legal argument that, since he was next in line for beheading, he'd have to cut off his own head before he could cut off anyone else's. This naturally stretched out the already lengthy appeal process.
While living as a street person, the Emperor's son, adopting the dubious name of "Nanki-Poo," falls for a local gal named Yum-Yum. Anyway, their romance doesn't get far because she is engaged to marry her guardian, the above-mentioned wimpy tailor. The Emperor's son hears that the tailor has been condemned for flirting, but by the time he gets back to Tikipu, the tailor has been promoted to executioner and is about to marry Yum-Yum.
Join the Gilbert Fine Arts Association for a fun-filled operetta, The Mikado. In a fictional Japan where anyone who flirts is beheaded -- strange things are bound to occur...
What is a Japanese teenager to do when his father insists he marry an older woman? (Particularly if she's got a face that would stop a bullet train.) Add to this that father's word is law, because he's the Emperor of Japan, and he's also into heavy discipline. For example, he has passed some pretty stiff laws to keep young punks straight. You can't even dye your hair puce anymore, or scribble on windowpanes, and don't even think about cheating at billiards. What he's really hung up on though is flirting!
All you gotta do is wink at someone and you're immediately beheaded! I mean total bummer! Being fiscally conservative as well, the Emperor has restructured and rightsized the judicial system so that all judges perform their own executions, thus eliminating a lot of middle management fat. The obvious answer, if you are inflicted with such a father, is to join the homeless and find work as a street musician.
When the Emperor had his fun new laws executed (if you'll pardon the expression), a bunch of pseudo-intellectual town fathers in a burb called "Tikipu" came up with a loophole you could drive a car through. Since the next guy on death row in their town was a wimpy tailor who got caught flirting, they decide to promote him to be Lord High Executioner. The scam was based on the rather thin legal argument that, since he was next in line for beheading, he'd have to cut off his own head before he could cut off anyone else's. This naturally stretched out the already lengthy appeal process.
While living as a street person, the Emperor's son, adopting the dubious name of "Nanki-Poo," falls for a local gal named Yum-Yum. Anyway, their romance doesn't get far because she is engaged to marry her guardian, the above-mentioned wimpy tailor. The Emperor's son hears that the tailor has been condemned for flirting, but by the time he gets back to Tikipu, the tailor has been promoted to executioner and is about to marry Yum-Yum.