Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace Presents "Hot Mikado" August 8, 2010

Oakbrook Terrace, IL- Drury Lane Theatre continues their acclaimed “Year of the Director” by presenting award-winning director and choreographer David H. Bell’s exuberant international smash hit musical HOT MIKADO. Bell, the original creator of the musical that has now been produced across the world, directs and choreographs the not-to-be-missed piece. Featuring an all-star cast led by Ted Levy (Emmy Award winner, Helen Hayes Award winner and Tony Award nominee), Aurelia Williams (First National Tour of All Shook Up), and multi-Jeff Award winner Summer Smart (Wicked and Drury Lane Theatre’s Ragtime and Sweet Charity) HOT MIKADO previews August 12, opens August 18 and runs through October 3 at Drury Lane Theatre, 100 Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace, IL. Drury Lane Theatre’s HOT MIKADO is the first Chicago-area production on a proscenium stage, offering a fresh interpretation and newly imagined staging of the acclaimed musical. East meets West in this mesmerizing celebration of all cultures.

HOT MIKADO is an enchanting musical comedy adaptation of the classic Gilbert and Sullivan musical, The Mikado, by David H. Bell. David H. Bell is the winner of 11 Jeff Awards and has received 40 Jeff Award nominations as well as three After Dark Awards. He served as the Artistic Director of historic Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. and Associate Artistic Director of Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre. His work has earned him five Carbonall nominations (Florida), a Dramalogue Award (Los Angeles), five AJC Awards (Atlanta), an Atlanta Circle of Dramatic Critics Award, a Laurence Olivier nomination (London), two National Endowment Awards, three Helen Hayes nominations and one Helen Hayes Award (Washington, D.C.), The Mac and Bistro Awards (NYC) and several National and International writing awards for creating HOT MIKADO. He has worked on Broadway, Off-Broadway, London, Paris, Berlin, Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Long Wharf Theatre, National and International Tours, and the Atlanta sequence of the closing ceremonies of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Bell is currently the head of the Music Theatre program at Northwestern University.

The performance schedule is as follows: Wednesdays at 1:30 p.m. ($31), Thursdays at 1:30 p.m. ($31) and 8 p.m. ($38), Fridays at 8:30 p.m. ($45), Saturdays at 5 p.m. ($45) and 8:30 p.m. ($45) and Sundays at 2:00 p.m. ($45) and 6 p.m. ($40). Lunch and dinner theater packages range from $45.75 to $68 depending on the day of the week. Student tickets start as low as $19 and Senior Citizen tickets start as low as $27 for matinees and $41.75 for a matinee luncheon package. For reservations, call the Drury Lane Theatre box office at 630.530.0111, call TicketMaster at 800.745.3000, or visit www.drurylaneoakbrook.com.