The King and I review – Helen George stars in staid Rodgers and Hammerstein revival | Stage
Mr. Miss.“Oriental Tories rarely reach the Western stage with any sense of reality,” Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote shortly before The King and I premiered in 1951. Or, as one of the musical’s Siamese characters sings about Westerners, “that’s how they feel” about the sentimental/Oriental. ” Like many mid-century classics, The King and I has its […]