Mikado: Or the Town of Titipu

This post is all about the show I am in called the Mikado. It is at the Sesser Opera House and the shows are on Thursday (5/27/10) through Saturday (5/30/10) at 7:00 and on Sunday (5/31/10) at 2:30. Grace, Rachel, David, Jonnie, my Dad, and I are in the operetta. An operetta is a short form of an opera. The show is all about a man named Nanki Poo. He was the son of the great Mikado (Japanese for emperor.) and was told that he was to marry a lady called Katisha. But he did not like Katisha and instead fell in love with a beautiful young lady called Yum-Yum. But Nanki-Poo soon found out that Yum-Yum was to be married to a cheap tailor named Ko-Ko. He left the town of Titipu. Soon he found out that Ko-Ko was to be put to death for flurting, so he hurried back to the town of Titipu to claim Yum-Yum's hand but disguised himself as a member of the Titipu town band. Then a lad named Pish-Tush told him that Ko-Ko was going to die but was reprieved at the last moment and was given the title of Lord High Exexccutioner. Meanwhile, the Mikado was disturbed at the lack of executions in Titipu and wanted an execution immediately. Ko-Ko found out that Nanki-Poo was so sad that he couldn't marry Yum-Yum that he was going to kill himself, Ko-Ko thought that Nanki-Poo could, instead, be executed so he (Ko-Ko) wouldn't be in trouble with the Mikado. Nanki-Poo agreed but said that he would allow himself to be executed only if he could marry Yum-Yum for a month, THEN be executed. Ko-Ko agreed to this and the next day Nanki-Poo was married. The next week a law came from the Mikado that if a married man should be executed, his wife will have to be buried alive. Then the trouble came. Things turned out though that the Mikado found out that Nanki-Poo was his son and took away the law that any one should be executed. Everything was happy in the Town of Titipu once again.