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The King and I is the fifth musical by the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein.It is based on Margaret Landon's novel Anna and the King of Siam (1944), which is in turn derived from the memoirs of Anna Leonowens, governess to the children of King Mongkut of Siam in the early 1860s.
The King and I is a 1956 American musical film made by 20th Century-Fox, directed by Walter Lang and produced by Charles Brackett and Darryl F. Zanuck.The screenplay by Ernest Lehman is based on the 1951 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I, which is itself based on the 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon.
The original cast recording album sleeve. The original cast recording of The King and I was issued in 1951 on Decca Records, with Gertrude Lawrence, Yul Brynner, Dorothy Sarnoff and Doretta Morrow. [1] The Broadway cast recording was directed by John Van Druten, with orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett and musical director Frederick Dvonch ...
The cast featured Hobson, also in her last role, as Anna; [4] Lom as the King, Smith as Lady Thiang, Duke as Tuptim and Mazarus as Lun Tha. [3] Thomas Hischak, in his The Rodgers and Hammerstein Encyclopedia comments, "The 1953 London cast recording is less complete than the Broadway one, and Valerie Hobson's Anna is no stronger a singer than ...
Once he read the script, however, he was fascinated by the character of the King and was eager to perform in the project. [32] Brynner with Gertrude Lawrence in the original production of The King and I (1951) Brynner's role as King Mongkut in The King and I (4,625 times on stage) became his best known. He appeared in the original 1951 ...
The King and I (original cast recording) This page was last edited on 3 January 2022, at 17:21 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Park returned to Broadway on April 16, 2015, in her first leading role as Tuptim in the 2015 revival of The King and I at the Vivian Beaumont Theater and remained with the production until its closing on June 26, 2016. [5] [23] Park was featured as a principal soloist on the cast recording for which she was nominated for a Grammy Award. [24]
She was a cast member on the children's television series The Electric Company (1971-1977), for which she earned an Emmy in 1972, and played Sister Peter Marie Reimondo on the HBO series Oz (1997-2003). She received two consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for her roles on The Muppet Show in 1977 and The Rockford Files in 1978.