Reply #41: I remember watching the Groucho Marx as KoKo production

[yellowdogintexas]

and I so wish I had a video of it. I was probably about 9 or 10...maybe?
My mom had a fierce love for "Mikado" and instilled it in her children. We had the sheet music, learned the music on piano, sang along and also had her old 78 recordings from the 40's which we played until they were no longer playable.

Years later when I acquired a modern LP, I had a friend copy it to cassette, which I gave her for Christmas, unlabled, with instructions to just plug it into her tape player and put on her headphones and then I pushed "play" and when the first opening notes played I thought she was going to come unglued!!!! The expression on her face was priceless!!!

I do have the ERic Idle video, taped from TV so not very good quality but I love it. And "Topsy Turvy" too.

Saw a high school production back in 1978 (my sister was in the chorus), and have since seen it twice here in Fort Worth: once w/Denton Light Opera Company (awesome production) and later with Tarrant County College's Opera Club. All were fun.