I was gonna say the queen I mentioned was garbed that way...I remember a helmet and sword and of course a wand.
The Mikado was the last show I was a chorus member of. At one point in the show there was a bit of dialog, a locally famous(went on to sing in the NY Opera run then by Beverly Sills) tenor Ricky Leach came wandering in singing “Butterfly....Butterfly”....He pauses and asks Yum YUm/…..”excuse’...Nagasaki? while holding a map upside down...she replies No...Tittipu and turns the map right side up and pointing to a location...Leach/Pinkerton replies “”ahhh grazzi(sic) and wanders off the stage singing “Butterfly” in a pure tenor f sharp while the audience laughed and applauded!
Had I had the misfortune of being in the audience, for that desecration, I would have stood, BOOOOOOed, delivered a few "salty" words, and stomped out of the theatre, demanding my money back!
"Butterfly, butterfly"....HUNH; "Poor Butterfly", something from "Madame Butterfly", something else, not G&S at all?
There have been two ( that I know of )all Negro versions of The Mikado; one in the late 1800s, but done correctly and one, "THE HOT MIKADO, in 1939, that was mucked up, which I don't approve of at all!
Then Jonathan Miller came along with deJapanesing, COMPLETELY, his version and another stab at it all, moved to the boardrooms of BIG Japanese firm ( the name of which escapes me at the moment. The later was coming to the Chicago Opera House...which does NOT ever give refunds. Well, I had tickets and when I heard what was what ( hadn't known when the I purchased the tickets ), I called and demanded a refund. They weren't going to give it me, until I told them what I would do, if no refund was forthcoming; which it suddenly was on its way to me! I'm the ONLY one, that I know of, to have EVER gotten a refund, EVER, for ANY reason, from that theatre.