Not Titipu as I recall it, but does that matter?
The Mikado is one of my favourite G&S shows, and Wilton’s a favourite venue and Opera della Luna a favoured company.
Of course, reducing your cast to seven does offer a challenge! So, move the setting from 19th Century Japan to a 21st Century fashion house and an English style garden – well, of course!
Apart from some chorus doubling the only real doubles were Steve Watts, playing Pish-Tush and the Mikado, and Louise Crane the ‘schoolgirl’ Peep-Bo and Katisha. This latter was the biggest ask and Crane rose to it well – assisted by a phenomenal costume in her Act 2 scenes with The Mikado and Ko-Ko (Matthew Scott-Clark actually developing that character).
Kelli-Ann Masterson (Yum-Yum) probably had the prettiest voice, but all sang acceptably well, and, perhaps more importantly, all were good comic actors.
The two patter songs (Ko-Ko’s ‘I’ve got a little list’ and the Mikado’s ‘object all sublime’) were both substantially updated and somewhat unsurprisingly the Shadwell audience was as little a fan of Elon Musk and Donald Trump as the Mikado himself.
It's funny (it always was), it has some great G&S songs (the updating was sympathetic) and it was well performed with quite crisp comic direction.