Note that in The Mikado, a comedy ...the executioner is incompetent and never kills anyone, and its long been standard practice to include names of various prominent people in the list.
I should Ko-Ko: Theatre group sorry for putting Sarah Palin on executioner's list
A US theatre group today apologised for updating Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Mikado so the character of Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner, listed Sarah Palin among people who "would not be missed".
The MCT Community Theatre executive director, Michael McGill, told the Missoulian newspaper, "Oh man, we made a mistake."
The issue was raised in a letter to the newspaper on Friday from a reader who said he was offended by the reference, especially in light of the shooting of the Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona.
Several bloggers criticised the theatre group. However, the director, Curt Olds, and others noted that the pacifist executioner's target list is often updated to make it relevant.
Olds said Palin was added because she is one of the most well-known people in the US.
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