According to the Daily Mail, the Lincoln Center Theater's production of THE KING AND I starring Kelli O'Hara as Anna Leonowens and Ken Watanabe as the King of Siam is heading to the London Palladium next June for a limited 14-15 week run.
Producer Howard Panter has also announced that following the run in the UK he intends to take the show to Japan, Korea, Australia, and more It is currently on tour in the US
The Lincoln Center Theater's Tony-winning production played its final performance on Broadway on June 26th, 2016. Their production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's The King and I has a cast of more than 50, with choreography based on Jerome Robbins original with classic songs including Getting To Know
You; Hello, Young Lovers; Shall We Dance?; I Have Dreamed; and
Something Wonderful in their original orchestrations.
Set in 1860's Bangkok, the musical tells the story
of the tempestuous relationship and love to which neither can admit which develops between
the King Mongkut of Siam and British schoolteacher Anna who the King brings to Siam to be a governess his many wives and children as part of a drive to modernize his country.
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