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 "If you want to know who we are . . ." The gentlemen of Japan set the stage for us. (Front row, left to right: Jonathan Evans, Roy Williams, John Foster, Paul Peelle, Nina Pollard, Ken Moore; second row: Gordon Freed, Tom Rowland, Kurtiss Gordon, Bill Tobey, Nick Baskin; Third row: David Mix Barrington, Kevin Mepham, Phil Helzer, Kevin Hutchinson, Glen Gordon, Jordan Helzer) |
 "A wand'ring minstrel I . . ." Nanki-Poo (Theodore Blaisdell) tells Pish-Tush (Phil Helzer) that he has returned to Titipu to try to marry Yum-Yum. |
 "Young man, despair." Pish-Tush (Phil Helzer) and Nanki-Poo (Theodore Blaisdell) react as Pooh-Bah (Matthew Roehrig) explains that Yum-Yum is already engaged to be married. |
 ". . . it may happen that a victim must be found, . . ." Ko-Ko (Jonathan Klate), the Lord High Executioner, reads his list of people "who might well be underground and who never would be missed." |
"Comes a train of little ladies" Home from school on vacation, but still under the watchful eye of their schoolmistress (Elaine Fligman). (First row, left to right: Elysse Link, Bryar Albert-Loftfield, Aravis Albert, Schuyler Evans, Niki Sremac, Anju Soparkar Diggs; second row: Esta Busi, Lucy Robinson, Kate Green, Marese D. Hutchinson, Connie Cappelli, Ann Steinhauser, K.C. Conlan) |
 "Three little maids from school are we" Flanked by her sisters Peep-Bo (Fran Goodwin) and Pitti-Sing (Heather Davies), Yum-Yum (Libby Maxey) joins her schoolmates. |
"Were I not to Ko-Ko plighted" Yum-Yum (Libby Maxey) and Nanki-Poo (Theodore Blaisdell) bemoan that they can't marry each other because she is engaged to Ko-Ko. |
 "I shall have to execute somebody at once." Pish-Tush (Phil Helzer), Ko-Ko (Jonathan Klate), and Pooh-Bah (Matthew Roehrig) debate which one of them should die to satisfy the Mikado's decree. |
 "What are you going to do with that rope?" Ko-Ko (Jonathan Klate) implores Nanki-Poo (Theodore Blaisdell) not to commit suicide, but to let Ko-Ko ceremoniously execute him. |
 "Your revels cease! Assist me, all of you!" Katisha (Kathy Blaisdell) interrupts the public celebration to claim her runaway fiancé, Nanki-Poo. |
 "They've been reminding me that in a month you're to be beheaded!" As Pish-Tush (Phil Helzer) looks on, Nanki-Poo (Theodore Blaisdell) attempts to comfort Yum-Yum (Libby Maxey), Pitti-Sing (Heather Davies) and Peep-Bo (Fran Goodwin). |
 "A more humane Mikado never did in Japan exist." Accompanied by his Imperial Guards (Jonathan Evans and Ken Moore), the Mikado (Joseph Donohue) addresses the townspeople of Titipu. |
 "I marry Katisha!" Ko-Ko (Jonathan Klate) is aghast at the solution to their problems proposed by Pitti-Sing (Heather Davies), Pooh-Bah (Matthew Roehrig), Nanki-Poo (Theodore Blaisdell) and Yum-Yum (Libby Maxey). |
 "You . . . dare to address words of passion . . . !." At first, Katisha (Kathy Blaisdell) is not particularly receptive to Ko-Ko's (Jonathan Klate) declarations of affection. (But we know he wins her heart in the end.) |
 "For he's gone and married Yum-Yum." Everyone rejoices that Nanki-Poo (Theodore Blaisdell) and Yum-Yum (Libby Maxey) no longer have to hide their marriage. In the background, even the Mikado (Joseph Donohue) shows his satisfaction at the outcome. |
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