Theater Says Sorry for Adding Sarah Palin’s Name To “The Mikado”
February 2nd, 2011 - 9:12 pm ICT by GDBy Ranjan Bhaduri
Feb 2, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Sarah Palin the former governor of Alaska and the veteran GOP member always manages to stay in headlines and sometimes the reasons are not related to her political career. Sometime sit is the activities of her daughter and her use of bizarre words in campaigns bring her back in limelight as everyone is aware of. The lady is hogging the headlines after a U.S. theater group used her name in Gilbert and Sullivan’s famous comic opera The Mikado and later expressed Apology for the act. The character of Lord High Executioner named Ko Ko in the opera was found to have listed the politician among the targets. Michael McGill the executive director of MCT Community Theatre told the media later that it was a mistake.
A reader raised the issue in a letter that was published in a daily. He said that the reference made him offended. After the letter was published in the newspaper a number of bloggers lashed out at the theater group which forced it to say sorry. The bloggers also made a reference to the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona in recent times in this context.
The Theater issued an apology but director Curt Olds along with some other members of the group said that this target list gets updated from time to time. They also made it a point to mention that Sarah Palin’s name was added to it because she is among the most popular persons in the country these days. The politician however has not made any comment on this development and it is not clear if she is aware of this as such.
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