Hot Mikado

Synopsis

Originally run in the West End 1995. East meets West head-on in an hilarious 1940's-style updating of the perennial Gilbert and Sullivan classic. Join an heir on the lam, a reluctant executioner and a woman loved by two men in an all-singing, all-dancing colourful show that is certain to provide the ideal evening out for the whole family.

Our Review:

9 September 2009

The winning team of Craig Revel Harwood and Sarah Travis first worked on Hot Mikado - the reworked version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s 1885 hit - in 2006.

For this welcome return, if anything they’ve turned up the heat. Diego Pitarch’s beautifully simple kabuki-inspired set of flying wooden screens embraces the whole theatre. It’s dominated by a piano (graced by Travis herself) and that knowing contrast between delicious nods to Gilbert and Sullivan’s ‘Japanese’ setting and Westerners playing the piece in the West informs the production. So after a serenely ritualistic Japanese prelude, the whole theatre sizzles from the moment the fourteen-strong cast sashay through the auditorium to take the stage by storm with jazz so hot it’s cool!

Richard G Jones’ fabulous lighting, a clever blend of warmth and kitsch, enhances the excitement. Revel Harwood has a flair for invention, choreographing even th...

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David - 16 November 2009:

Brilliant! Only wish I could see it again....

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