{"id":33990,"date":"2014-10-22T11:27:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T15:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=33990"},"modified":"2022-09-29T12:39:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T16:39:00","slug":"wright-state-stages-hot-mikado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/10\/22\/wright-state-stages-hot-mikado\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State stages \u2018Hot Mikado\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2014\/10\/hot-mikado700-14444-1608.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-34003\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2014\/10\/hot-mikado700-14444-1608-260x204.jpg\" alt=\"Wright State stages \u2018Hot Mikado\u2019\" width=\"260\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a>Excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wright State University\u2019s 40th anniversary season continues Thursday, Oct. 23 with its opening of the rarely staged, dance-heavy musical \u201cThe Hot Mikado,\u201d a swinging 1940s jazz and blues twist on the classic 1885 Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera \u201cThe Mikado.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Hot Mikado\u201d originally premiered in 1939 at New York\u2019s Broadhurst Theatre and was revived in 1986 at Ford\u2019s Theatre in Washington, D.C. by orchestrator\/arranger Rob Bowman and lyricist\/librettist David Bell. Set in the city of Titipu, the story concerns Nanki-Poo, son of the mighty Mikado and heir to the throne, and his true love Yum-Yum. However, Yum-Yum is engaged to Ko-Ko who has been appointed to be the new Lord High Executioner. This love triangle grows more complex when Ko-Ko makes a deal with Nanki-Poo that tests the depths of his love for Yum-Yum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Read the article from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/news\/entertainment\/arts-theater\/wsu-stages-hot-mikado\/nhj5G\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dayton Daily News<\/a> (subscription required).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt Wright State University\u2019s 40th anniversary season continues Thursday, Oct. 23 with its opening of the rarely staged, dance-heavy musical \u201cThe Hot Mikado,\u201d a swinging 1940s jazz and blues twist on the classic 1885 Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera \u201cThe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/10\/22\/wright-state-stages-hot-mikado\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":34001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4859,715,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fine-and-performing-arts","category-news","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33990"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130516,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33990\/revisions\/130516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}