Word: mooradian
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Dates: during 1988-1988
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...subject matter of The Mikado remains as pertinent today as a century ago. Crooked politicos and covert dealing abound. Ko-Ko (Steve Mooradian), sentenced to die for flirting, has managed to get himself promoted to the top of the criminal justice system--Lord High Executioner. All other functions of state fall under the aegis of the corrupt, sneering Pooh-Bah (Kenneth Bamberger). The regal Mikado (Anton Quist) makes certain that the "punishment fit the crime"--that ludicrous laws decapitate luckless lovers. Fortunately, palmgreasing and artful seduction prevent anyone from getting hurt...
...Mooradian and Bamberger give humorous, tour de force performances. As the ineptly scheming Ko-Ko, Mooradian is an outrageously unctious dirty old man, ogling the school girls, or melting in paroxysms of fright when he finds himself imperiled or actually called upon to perform his duty as executioner...