The run closed June 26, 2016
- Opened
- 2015
- Closed
- June 26, 2016
- Performances
- 538
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- —
Of the 426 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and record a performance count, this is the 46th 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. |
| 1985 | Broadway Theatre Revival · Mitch Leigh | 191 perf. |
| 1996 | Neil Simon Theatre Revival · Christopher Renshaw | 780 perf. |
| 2018 | London Palladium Transfer |
Who was in it69 named
Kelli O Hara
Edward Baker Duly
Jon Viktor Corpuz
Murphy Guyer
Jake Lucas
Paul Nakauchi
Marc Oka
Adriana Braganza
Amaya Braganza
Lamae Caparas
Hsin Ping Chang
Andrew Cheng
Lynn Masako Cheng
Olivia Chun
Paul Heesang Miller
Ethan Halford Holder
Cole Horibe
Maryann Hu
James Ignacio
Misa Iwama
Christie Kim
Kelvin Moon Loh
Sumie Maeda
Rommel Pierre O Choa
Kristen Faith Oei
Autumn Ogawa
Diane Phelan
William Poon
Bennyroyce Royon
Lainie Sakakura
Ann Sanders
Ian Saraceni
Atsuhisa Shinomiya
Michiko Takemasa
Kei Tsuruharatani
Christopher Vo
Rocco Wu
Xiaochuan Xie
Timothy Yang
Alan Ariano
Korey Buecheler
Avery Oliver Espiritu
Bonale Fambrini
Aidan Fong
Lydia Gaston
Jim Kaplan
Mindy Lai
Hoon Lee
Kasey Youme Lee
Q Lim
Nobutaka Mochimaru
Koh Mochizuki
Arisa Odaka
Emilio Ramos
Kitana Rojanatavorn
Julius Sermonia
Alicia Shumway
Rocco Sisto
Nicky Torchia
Erica Wong
9 of these 69 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 60 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
- Bartlett Sher
- Choreographer
- Christopher Gattelli
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.
Around this production
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 musical's plot relates the experiences of Anna, a British schoolteacher who is hired as part of the King's drive to modernize his country. The relationship between the King and Anna is marked by conflict through much of the piece, as well as by a love to which neither can admit. The musical premiered on March 29, 1951, at Broadway's St. James Theatre. It ran for nearly three years, making it the fourth-longest-ru…
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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.