the king and i

     

It opens with a widow & her son arriving by boat from Singapore to accept a job that pays 20 pounds a month

Trivia about the king and i

  • To audition for this musical, Yul Brynner sang while sitting cross-legged on the floor
  • Yul Brynner played the monarch in this musical 4,625 times
  • It's based on the memoir "Anna And The King Of Siam"
  • Gertrude Lawrence won in 1952 for playing the title pronoun in this Rodgers & Hammerstein musical
  • In 1996 Lou Diamond Phillips filled Yul Brynner's royal shoes for a revival of this musical
  • This musical opens with Anna's arrival in Bangkok
  • Prince Chulalongkorn becomes king at the end of this Rodgers & Hammerstein musical
  • Yul Brynner will be remembered for his role in this 1956 musical,"Et cetera,et cetera,et cetera"
  • The “Times’” Brooks Atkinson called it “an original & beautiful excursion into... the Far East
  • "March of the Toys" is from "Babes In Toyland" & "March of the Siamese Children" is from this musical
  • "I Whistle A Happy Tune","Shall We Dance?"
  • Rodgers & Hammerstein fans who speak German listen to "Der Konig und Ich", the Austrian cast CD of this musical
  • This Rodgers & Hammerstein musical opens on a sailing vessel in the Gulf of Siam
  • Unlike many of the other characters in this musical, Tuptim is from Burma
  • In 1997 Marie Osmond made her B'way debut as Anna in a revival of this Rodgers & Hammerstein show
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew at the St. James Theatre in New York City) This musical that featured Yul Brynner's most regal performance premiered here at the St. James Theatre in 1951
  • (Hi, I'm Jeff Probst [reporting from Thailand]) Here in Thailand, this 1956 movie musical was banned & so was the non-musical 1999 film covering the same story
  • This show features a concubine from Burma named Tuptim
  • This classic musical about a 19th C. ruler returned to Broadway in 1996; it features the following:("Shall We Dance")
  • 1952: "That Monarch Plus Me"
  • "I Whistle A Happy Tune"

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