"Hot Mikado"

"Hot Mikado" Gives Gilbert & Sullivan's Comic Opera a Jazzy '30s Update

Gilbert & Sullivan get bitten by the jitterbug in this swingin' 1930's-style update of "The Mikado" at Theatre Three Dallas. Faithful to the original in song and story, "Hot Mikado" sets everything in a jazz club, where a young rocker is on the run from his overeager fiancée and searching for the woman who stole his heart. A sensationally snappy adaptation of a classic operetta, the adaptation includes some of Gilbert & Sullivan's cleverest and must hummable tunes (from the lyrical "A Wand'ring Minstrel I" to the crowd-pleasing hijinks of "I've Got a Little List") in musical styles ranging from jazz to swing to gospel to blues.