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Stage to Screen

Stage to Screen

2 Episodes

In his dazzling period delight TOPSY-TURVY, Mike Leigh brings the colorful world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life, charting the legendary nineteenth-century theatrical team’s uphill battle to mount a major production. The show in question—the now world-famous comic opera “The Mikado”—was brought to the screen in 1939 when the celebrated Gilbert and Sullivan troupe the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company joined forces with Hollywood, yielding a lavish Technicolor treat studded with enduringly popular songs and irreverent political satire.

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Stage to Screen

2 Episodes

  • Topsy-Turvy
    2:40:48
    Topsy-Turvy
    Episode 1

    Topsy-Turvy

    Episode 1

    Directed by Mike Leigh • 1999 • United Kingdom
    Starring Allan Corduner, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Spall

    The world of Gilbert and Sullivan comes to vivid life in director Mike Leigh’s extraordinary dramatization of the staging of the duo’s legendary 1885 comic opera THE MIKADO. Jim Broadbent and All...

  • The Mikado
    1:31:06
    The Mikado
    Episode 2

    The Mikado

    Episode 2

    Directed by Victor Schertzinger • 1939 • United States
    Starring Kenny Baker, Martyn Green, Sydney Granville

    The legendary Gilbert and Sullivan troupe the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company joined forces with Hollywood for this 1939 Technicolor version of the beloved comic opera “The Mikado,” the first w...

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