The run closed June 30, 1985
- Opened
- January 7, 1985
- Closed
- June 30, 1985
- Performances
- 191
- Previews
- 16
- Theatre
- Broadway Theatre
Of the 465 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and record a performance count, this is the 96th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The King and I 5 more that season
| 1951 | St. James Theatre Original · John van Druten | 1,246 perf. |
| 1977 | Uris Theatre Revival · Yuriko | 695 perf. |
| 1996 | Neil Simon Theatre Revival · Christopher Renshaw | 780 perf. |
| 2015 | Revival Revival · Bartlett Sher | 538 perf. |
| 2018 | London Palladium Transfer |
Who was in it48 named
Irma Estel Laguerre
Patricia Welch
Araby Abaya
Alis Elaine Anderson
Gary Bain Domasin
Max Barabas
Marla F Bingham
Kathy Lee Brynner
Michael Bulos
Joyce Campana
Cornel Chan
Amy Chin
Young Hee Cho
Lisa Chui
Jamie Chung
Mariann Cook
Edward Crotty
Mark Damrongsri
Kaipo Daniels
Jeffrey Bryan Davis
Carolyn Delany
Evelina Deocares
Burt Edwards
Jonathan Farwell
Kate Gwon
Deborah Harada
Stanley Earl Harrison
Thomas Heath
Janet Jordan
Diane Lam
Valerie Lau Kee
Jae Woo Lee
Tracie Mon Ting Lee
Andre Lengyel
Yvette Laura Martin
Suzen Murakoshi
Michelle Nigalan
Sal Provenza
Hope Sogawa
Ron Stefan
Steven Tom
Luke Trainer
Patricia Weber
Jennifer Wen
Annie Woo
Sylvia Yamada
2 of these 48 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 46 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Mitch Leigh
- Choreographer
- Mitch Leigh
- Producer
- The Mitch Leigh Company
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Recordings 6 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against The King and I, and nothing in the record says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- Which of the 6 recordings of The King and I document this run, if any.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.