Productions1 on Broadway
| 1939 | Broadhurst Theatre Original. March 23, 1939 · Hassard Short | 85 performances |
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Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Hot Mikado matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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In the literature8 passages
Both The Swing Mikado and Hot Mikado played simultaneously across the street from one another, leading to a new number in Pins and Needles called “The Red Mikado” which looked at this phenomenon. book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p493
"For the 1936–1937 Broadway season, the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company presented ten of them within a two-month period. A few weeks after Knights of Song closed, the D’Oyly Carte offered eight revivals and later in the season Broadway offered two black versions of The Mikado, The Swing Mikado and Hot Mikado." book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p531
The first was The Swing Mikado, and it was soon followed by Hot Mikado. The former had first been produced by the Federal Theatre Project for Illinois in September 1938 at the Great Northern Theatre in Chicago, where it ran almost six months (Time reported it played to 250,000 patrons and cleared a profit of $35,000). book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p570
Todd mounted Hot Mikado, which opened three weeks after the FTP production of The Swing Mikado began New York performances. book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p571
Robinson later starred in Hot Mikado. book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p321
Hassard Short directed over forty musicals on Broadway, including Sunny, Three's a Crowd, The Band Wagon, the all-black Hot Mikado, As Thousands Cheer, the first three Berlin-Harris Music Box Revues, Cole Porter's Jubilee, and Between the Devil. book:musical-a-grand-tour-the-rise-glory-and-fall-of-an-flinn-denny-martin-new-york-l#p304
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