Multicultural 'Mikado' heats up the stage up the stage

Chicago Sun-Times | April 24, 2003| | Copyright

'THE HOT MIKADO'

When: Wednesday through June 29

Where: Marriott Theatre, 10 Marriott Dr., Lincolnshire

Tickets: $35-$40

Call: (847) 634-0200

Director-choreographer David Bell speaks with the same electric energy and high speed that invariably characterize his productions, whether musicals or reinventions of Shakespeare. And listening to him, you can understand why he has had such a long love affair with "Hot Mikado"--the legendary jitterbugging, Lindy-hopping, all-swing- and-swagger version of that Victorian plum "The Mikado," Gilbert and Sullivan's giddy operetta of ...

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