Take one part British humor and add a strong fascination with all things Japanese. Stir in a love rectangle. Mix with unbridled singing and dancing. Bake for 115 years. Open the stage curtains. Experience "The Mikado."

"The Mikado" is a satirical comic operetta by the prolific team of Gilbert and Sullivan. The UA Opera Theater brings it to Tucson starting tomorrow night.

Opera director and UA professor of music Charles Roe directs the production; dance professors Melissa Lowe and Jory Hancock choreograph, and music professor Gregg Hanson conducts.