{"id":34193,"date":"2014-11-05T16:51:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T20:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=34193"},"modified":"2022-09-29T12:39:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T16:39:34","slug":"hot-mikado-review-wright-state-university-gotta-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/11\/05\/hot-mikado-review-wright-state-university-gotta-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hot Mikado\u2019 Review \u2013 Wright State University \u2013 Gotta Dance!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2014\/10\/hot-mikado2-14444-694.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-34025\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2014\/10\/hot-mikado2-14444-694-260x242.jpg\" alt=\"Wright State Theatre presents crowd-pleasing musical 'Hot Mikado'\" width=\"260\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a>Excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Without a doubt the first pleasant surprise of the fall is the area premiere of Wright State University\u2019s highly entertaining and fabulously choreographed \u201cHot Mikado,\u201d Rob Bowman and David H. Bell\u2019s little-known 1986 jazz-era twist on Gilbert and Sullivan\u2019s 1885 comic opera \u201cThe Mikado.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With great skill and efficiency, Bowman and Bell impressively dusts off this silly, thin tale of love, law and customs in the quaint, cutely named Japanese town of Titipu. Instead of taking a more familiar, traditional approach to the material and Gilbert and Sullivan\u2019s legacy as particularly evident in Mike Leigh\u2019s acclaimed 1999 film \u201cTopsy-Turvy,\u201d this duo fills their adaptation with a colorfully clever assortment of musical flavors from gospel and swing to R&amp;B and rock and roll. By all means, the sheer power of musicianship and distinctive arrangements (catapulted by the expertise of musical director Scot Woolley\u2019s superb orchestra) is a key factor to the show\u2019s conceptual appeal, which brilliantly doubles as a refreshing history lesson in American music and an enjoyable, respectful homage to one of the most beloved works in the Gilbert and Sullivan canon.<\/p>\n<p>Read the review from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mostmetro.com\/entertainment\/hot-mikado-review-wright-state-university-gotta-dance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dayton Most Metro<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt Without a doubt the first pleasant surprise of the fall is the area premiere of Wright State University\u2019s highly entertaining and fabulously choreographed \u201cHot Mikado,\u201d Rob Bowman and David H. Bell\u2019s little-known 1986 jazz-era twist on Gilbert and Sullivan\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/11\/05\/hot-mikado-review-wright-state-university-gotta-dance\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":34025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4859,715,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34193","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\/34193","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=34193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130524,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34193\/revisions\/130524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}