A Mikado For The Music Hall

Following her critically acclaimed all-male productions of ‘H.M.S. Pinafore’ and ‘The Pirates of Penzance’, Sasha Regan is returning to Wilton’s Music Hall – the only surviving Grand Music Hall in the world – with Gilbert and Sullivan’s irresistible ‘The Mikado’.

The cast is today announced as Declan Egan (as Bertie Hugh), Sam Kipling (Miss Violet Plumb), Lewis Kennedy (Mikado), David McKechnie (Mr Cocoa), George Dawes (Wilfred Lush), Aidan Nightingale (Albert Barr), Owen Clayton (Lily Tring), Richard Russell Edwards (Hebe Flo), Christopher Hewitt (Kitty Shaw) with an ensemble featuring Harry Cooper-Millar, Oliver Bradley-Taylor, Patrick Cook, Struan Davidson, Franciso Gomes, Elliot Akeister, Shane Antony-Whitely.

One of G&S’s most famous operettas, featuring the songs “A Wand’ring Minstrel I”, “Behold the Lord High Executioner” and “Three little maids from school are we”, ‘The Mikado’ is traditionally set in Japan. But this vibrant production successfully pokes playful fun at British politics and institutions by transposing the crazy storyline to an all-boys school in 1950s England. A school camping trip is visiting the far away land of Titipu – a place where flirting is banned on pain of death and where tailors can become Lord High Executioners but cannot cut off another’s head until they have cut off their own!

Regan’s idea to transform these much-loved classics into all-male productions stems from her own
experience performing Gilbert and Sullivan at a single-sex school. Her shows are renowned for playing on the unique humour it creates.Creative team:
Director Sasha Regan
Designer Ryan Dawson Laight
Choreographer  Adam Haigh
Casting Adam Brahm
Producers Regan De Wynter WilliamsSasha Regan was recently awarded the Special Achievement Award at the Off West End Awards for her contribution to musical theatre.Regan De Wynter William’s 2022 production of ‘H.M.S. Pinafore’ was nominated Best Opera Production at this year’s Offies.

The Mikado
With music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, was their ninth of 14 operatic collaborations. It opened on 14 March 1885, in London, where it ran at the Savoy Theatre for 672
performances, the second-longest run for any work of musical theatre and one of the longest runs of any theatre piece up to that time. By the end of 1885, it was estimated that, in Europe and America, at least 150 companies were producing the opera.

Wilton’s Music Hall, Graces Alley, London, E1 8JB from 7 June – 1 July. Times: Tuesday – Saturday at 7 30pm;
Thursday and Saturday at 2.30pm. Running time: 2 hours 10 minutes plus interval
Booking: http://www.wiltons.org.uk/

Telephone: 020 7702 2789