The 1981 Chariots of Fire has some plot around The Mikado, but the film has some historical inaccuracies. According to Ian Bradley, the real-life Harold Abrahams married a different actress, one who never played Yum-Yum but who sang in the chorus, than the Abrahams in the film does (Bradley 576 n. 337-60).

According to Ian Bradley, the BBC Record Library lists 45 different versions of "A Wandering Minstrel, I" alone (Bradley 556).

An episode of The Simpsons has references to The Mikado.

An episode of Cheers

The film Foul Play

In Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find," there's a cat named Pittising.

The Muppets have sung "Tit Willow" (Bradley 556).

There's a town named Mikado in Michigan. A series was published by Wayne State University Press (Detroit, Michigan) in the 1960s and 1970s called "Savoyard Books." Many of the books in the series are about the history of automobiles and the automobile industry in Michigan, though some are about education. Not all references to Savoy or Savoyards, of course, are to Gilbert and Sullivan. Savoy is a region of France bordering Switzerland and Italy, and Mont Blanc is in the Savoy Alps. Savoy was a duchy in the Middle Ages. Watteau has a painting of a Savoyard, and he doesn't mean a Gilbert and Sullivan performer or enthusiast.

To Act I or Act II of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado.

To the homepage of this Mikado website.

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