Miya Sama

Clip from Mike Leigh's "Topsy Turvy"

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• mikado
• topsy
• turvy
• tim
• spall

[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.

[vetriet]

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

[SAMURAIHEARTX3]

↓It`s a original song. 

[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]

@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?

[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

[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

[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!"