Show I HOME TALENT IN THE MIKADO I The Cast Not Vet Complete but n Successful Presentation Insured 1 It has not been fully determined when I I The Mikado will be presented to a Salt i Lake audience but the management intend in-tend hastening its presentation us fast as circumstances will permit The full cast has not been selected hut it is settled that John D Spencer will take the part of KoKo the Lord High j Executioner of Titipu and that Mr John T White will take the character of i PoohBah the Lord High Everything I Else These two characters have many I unique and ludicrous scenes together I during the progress of the opera and with the above named gentlemen in the cast i it is an acknowledged fact that the parts i could not have fallen into better hands to carry out the idea of the authors The other ladies and gentlemen to represent I the characters of the opera will he selected i I select-ed with the view ofgiving the best degree 1 of home talent obtainable and it is safe i to predict that the opera will make i hit before a Salt Lake audience Our home talent is exceptionably good and under the immediate control of a gentleman with the fine musical training and ability of Professor Careless they will receive a finish and thoroughness fully equal to i their talents The Mikado is i well known to the i community as the latest operatic effort of the famous musical composers Gilbert Sullivan and seems to excel all former efforts by its brilliant music and comical situations In it is embodied every strong element known to the musical and dramatic dram-atic art that will lead to success and it is i full of life and brilliant scenes from the commencement to the finish The costumes are rare rich and profuse pro-fuse and the seat of the play being laid in Japan necessarily calls for a different order of scenery from that of anything heretofore presented The choruses will he l selected with the view of bringing out U equal harmony in the different classes of voices engageJ and the trouble experienced in other operas heretofore presented by the drowning of one class of voices by theI I other will be avoided ii possible by an equal representation |