Miya Sama

[SAMURAIHEARTX3]

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[grafonolafavorite]

Dear Timothy Spall, You, my dear sir, are fantastic! This and "Almost Famous" and Winston Churchill.

Indeed.

Bravo.

[MrCuddlyable3]

Some have noticed the youthful beauty of Ms. Louise Gold who in the film Topsy-Turvy plays the actual Rosina Brandram who acted Katisha. With all due respect to both lovely ladies, the plot demands that Katisha be "a most unattractive old thing with a caricature of a face" for there to be any credibility in her lament "why may not a cheated maiden die?" after she is jilted.

[LdHighEverythingElse]

Katisha, splendid! So much better than the usual 'old hag' - a pity they could not rope the cast together for a full production... A

[MrCuddlyable3]

@LdHighEverythingElse filming Topsy Turvy with faithful reconstruction of a few scenes of the Mikado cost $20 million which has not been fully recovered. Have you surplus funds to support a full production?

[benbisley]

I don't think a more authoritative Katisha could be imagined. She wouldn't even need to ask me to bow. . .

[GayGeisha]

It is ALL about Katisha

[wenglishsal]

@AliceTRoyal ... Timothy Spall, was also in 'Chicken Run' as a rat called 'Nick' ( the little fat one) the other rat 'Fletcher' was voiced by Phil Daniels. They had a charming little converstaion at the end about who came 1st the chicken or the egg... strange eh!!! ... :0)x

[AliceTRoyal]

Hey! It's Peter Pettigrew. No, wait! It's Winston Churchill.

[glowee123]

I played Katisha in my school play The Mikdao. People said I did a really good job.

[WeEastern]

BOOOWWWWW!!! BOOOWWWWW!!

[tayloreh]

I LOVE THIS MOVIE. The ending is just extraordinary to me...

[Hikikomori013]

I love the Mikado's makeup. He looks like a plastic mask.

[loqutor]

I am proud to say that I can sing the parts of both Katisha and the Mikado--yes, in the proper vocal ranges.

[valleygirl85]

Timothy Spawl, AWESOME!

[herminestover]

this has a wee hint of HEARTBEAT DRUMMING! what a treat!

[XatxiFly]

Facial twitch 2:32 FTW.

[CRAZYFORFUDGE]

katisha sings so funny!

and the Mikado looks funn but not singin' wierd!

and make his town Titipu

hurrah for the homeward bound!!

[nefersguy]

The facial exaggerations are CLASSIC!

[gertiecummings]

Mikado/Katisha 2012

(And once again, the running mate is the problem.)

[cApEgUrLzRoX]

and the poor mikado LOATHS the daughter-in-law elect...LMAO

[XatxiFly]

I like that this is posted by "shockingbadhats." Is the Mikado's hat shocking and bad? Heheh.

[Kinemacolour]

They really should have got two people who could sing.

[kalindoscopy]

the daughter in law elect makes me think of jadis...the white witch!

[LovvaBoi]

i lol EVERY TIME his "daughter-in-law elect" speaks...

[cuddlyable3]

This is a splendid reconstruction complete with the victorian audience. But Katisha is far too young!

[Nullifidian]

cuddlyable3,

Katisha isn't too young. Rosina Brandram was the first Katisha, and at one dinner when she was to have appeared, but canceled due to illness, Gilbert said of her, "Rosina whose dismal doom it was to represent undesirable old ladies of 65, but who, with all the resources of the perruquier and the makeup box, could never succeed in looking more than an attractive eight-and-twenty - it was her only failure." At the time the Mikado opened, she was 39.

[Prycik]

Interestingly, I read that this is the only part of the show that's really in Japanese, and that's why it's the part the original English audience hated!

[PeterPanDancer]

Heh! I did the Mikado at a regional theatre here last summer and this is bringing back so many memories. ^.^

[velvety2006]

miya-sama reminds me of the matchmaker from mulan :P

[aseretkavon]

I know! I was watching this movie with my dad last night and asked him if this song (that part) was also in Mulan... he said he didn't think so... haha

[VValkyrie]

Articulation is fascinating! Quite impressive. Thanks so much for posting.

[xdeliriumgirlx]

oh my i never noticed that eye twitch before :D

its been so long since ive seen this movie

[bgdjohnny]

It really is a great scene - new to me too. Nice background info from you all.

[almadora]

thanks. i just saw this over the weekend. awesome. and timothy spall is great, and forgive me for not remembering the 'daughter in law elect's name. great stuff.

[AyHyperbole]

It's a great performance, but I wonder about the casting of Katisha. The character is supposed to be really, really ugly - so ugly that Ko-Ko can barely bring himself to flirt with her to save his life. This actress is actually pretty good-looking...

[shauninfl28]

The original Savoy production of The Mikado featured Rosina Brandram as Katisha--who Gilbert himself described as an actress "whose dismal doom it was to represent undesirable old ladies of sixty-five but, who...could never succeed in looking more than an attractive eight-and-twenty (it was her only failure)."

Louise Gold was portraying Rosina in the film. It seems to me that she captures Gilbert's description remarkably.

[AyHyperbole]

Wow - I have to say: you are extremely well-informed.

[shauninfl28]

Just a little internet research, and a growing love of everything Gilbert and Sullivan =)

[lskarin]

This is apparently a common problem. When I got hooked on G&S, the principal contralto was Gillian Knight -- an unmistakable beauty. Just ignore it, or go in your mind to a Twilight Zone episode where ugliness and beauty are reversed.

[dennykdoe]

@shauninfl28 Interesting---which leads me to think Gilbert should have pursued a different tack with Katisha--instead of being so ugly KoKo can't abide her--which is kind of mean spirited--he's terrified of the fact that she's a world class ball buster. I mean, if this is how she behaves BEFORE she's even married, what's she going to be like after she's actually Queen!? I think the Lord High Exec. is going to be busy!

[shauninfl28]

@dennykdoe LOL good point and well said

[vetriet]

Unbelievably good performance. The orchestra plays to perfection, and when Katisha commands them to bow, the mad gleam in her eye is priceless.

[dennykdoe]

@vetriet 'mad gleam" that's perfect. She's a couple of steps away from absolute power and you can SEE it.

[HollywoodHillsCookie]

@vetriet Yeah....this is a great performance (and song, obviously.) It's hard not to be humming that phrase for a half an hour or so, minimum..."Bow...BOW...to his daughter-in-law Elect" / "Bow, bow, to his daughter-in-law elect!"

[Technosquid]

This is my favorite mikado song, and I love this performance. His eye twitch at the end really makes it.

[spawkwingdiamond]

Katisha is the brilliance.

[Malic430]

haha. its Peter Pettigrew from harry potter as the Mikado

[Doctorhotstuff]

lol

[NnFfBb]

Ya, and its' obvious he can't sing either...

[oldcremona]

I LOVE this Katisha!

[Doctorhotstuff]

Mikado and the other lady have good voices!!

[StatelessPerson]

The Mikado's Song appears in the Dress Rehearsal, where Gilbert cuts the song, only to defer to the cast's earnest desire he relent. Louise Gold belts out the Daughter-in-law elect. As yet underappreciated with her PHENOMENAL voice, Miss Gold was, for many years, among Jim Henson's Muppeteers. Her performance had me searching YouTube for more of her work. Alas, it was here, thankfully. WHAT A VOICE!

[freestuffffff]

OH this is a GREAT movie !! The director rehearsed the actors for six months on extensively researched material. It's almost four hours long but I saw in the theater three times.

[KatherineXIX]

Why did it have to cut out? I want to see "A More Humane Mikado"!

[SPAG22]

I don't think it's that part of the film - the Mikado song appeared in an eariler sequence.