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The Mikado, or, The town of Titipu, book by W.S. Gilbert ; music by Arthur Sullivan ; authentic version edited by Bryceson Treharne

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The Mikado, or, The town of Titipu

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book by W.S. Gilbert ; music by Arthur Sullivan ; authentic version edited by Bryceson Treharne

A lighthearted burlesque of Victorian English culture and the vagaries of love. The tale unfolds amid a fanciful version of Japanese society, in which a wandering minstrel has the misfortune to fall in love with the beautiful ward of the Lord High Executioner of Titipu

Overture -- If you want to know who we are -- A wand'ring minstrel I -- Our great Mikado, virtuous man -- Young man, despair -- And have I journeyed for a month -- Behold the Lord High Executioner -- As some day it may happen -- Comes a train of little ladies -- Three little maids from school are we -- So please you, sir, we much regret -- Were you not to Ko-ko plighted -- I am so proud -- With aspect stern and gloomy stride -- Braid the raven hair -- The sun, whose rays are all ablaze -- Brightly dawns our wedding day -- Here's a how-de-do -- Mi-ya sa-ma -- A more humane Mikado -- The criminal cried as he dropped him down -- See how the fates their gifts allot -- The flowers that bloom in the spring -- Alone, and yet alive -- Willow, tit-willow -- There is beauty in the bellow of the blast -- For he's gone an maried Yum-Yum

Town of Titipu