and Men) 3. "Our Great Mikado, virtuous man" (Pish-Tush and Men) 4. "Young man, despair" (Pooh-Bah, Nanki-Poo and Pish-Tush) 4a. Recit., "And have I journey'd for a month" (Pooh-Bah, Nanki-Poo) 5. "Behold the Lord High Executioner" (Ko-Ko and Men) 5a. "As some day it may happen" (Ko-Ko and Men) 6. "Comes a train of little ladies" (Girls) 7. "Three little maids from school are we" (Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing, and Girls) 8. "So please you, Sir, we much regret" (Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, and Girls) 9. "Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted" (Yum-Yum and Nanki-Poo) 10. "I am so proud" (Pooh-Bah, Ko-Ko and Pish-Tush) 11. Finale Act I (Ensemble) "With aspect stern and gloomy stride" "The threatened cloud has passed away" "Your revels cease!" ... "Oh fool, that fleest my hallowed joys!" "For he's going to marry Yum-Yum" "The hour of gladness" ... "O ni! bikkuri shakkuri to!" "Ye torrents roar!" Act II 12. "Braid the raven hair" (Pitti-Sing and Girls) 13. "The sun whose rays are all ablaze" (Yum-Yum) (Originally in Act I, moved to Act II shortly after the opening night) 14. Madrigal, "Brightly dawns our wedding day" (Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, Nanki-Poo and Pish-Tush) 15. "Here's a how-de-do" (Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo and Ko-Ko) 16. "Mi-ya Sa-ma" "From every kind of man obedience I expect" (Mikado, Katisha, Chorus) 17. "A more humane Mikado" (Mikado, Chorus) (This song was nearly cut, but was restored shortly before the first night.) 18. "The criminal cried as he dropped him down" (Ko-Ko, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, Chorus) 19. "See how the Fates their gifts allot" (Mikado, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, Ko-Ko and Katisha) 20. "The flowers that bloom in the spring" (Nanki-Poo, Ko-Ko, Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, and Pooh-Bah) 21. Recit. and song, "Alone, and yet alive" (Katisha) 22. "On a tree by a river" ("Willow, tit-willow") (Ko-Ko) 23. "There is beauty in the bellow of the blast" (Katisha and Ko-Ko) 24. "Finale Act II" (Ensemble) "For he's gone and married Yum-Yum" "The threatened cloud has passed away" Productions The Mikado had the longest original run of the Savoy Operas. It also had the quickest revival: after Gilbert and Sullivan's next work, Ruddigore, closed relatively quickly, three operas were revived to fill the interregnum until The Yeomen of the Guard was ready, including The Mikado, just 17 months after its first run closed. On 4 September 1891, D'Oyly Carte's touring "C" company gave a Royal Command Performance of The Mikado at Balmoral