LCT's Platform Series Will Continue with THE KING AND I's Bartlett Sher & Christopher Gattelli Next Month

By: Mar. 24, 2015
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Lincoln Center Theater's Platform Series, a forum for public discussion between Lincoln Center Theater artists and interested theatergoers, continues its 17th season on Thursday, April 9 at 6 pm with BARTLETT SHER and CHRISTOPHER GATTELLI, the director and choreographer, respectively, of Rodgers & Hammerstein's THE KING AND I, currently in previews at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.

Platform Series events take place in the early evening in the lobby of the Vivian Beaumont Theater (150 West 65th Street). Admission is free and open to all; however, seating in the lobby is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis only, beginning at a half hour before the talk. (Speakers and schedules are subject to change. Call 212-362-7600 to confirm on the day of the event.)

One of Rodgers & Hammerstein's finest works, THE KING AND I boasts a score which features such beloved classics as Getting To Know You, Hello Young Lovers, Shall We Dance, I Have Dreamed, and Something Wonderful. Set in 1860's Bangkok, the musical tells the story of the unconventional and tempestuous relationship that develops between the King of Siam and Anna Leonowens, a British schoolteacher, whom the imperious King brings to Siam to tutor his many wives and children.

BARTLETT SHER, Resident Director of Lincoln Center Theater, won the Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics' Circle Awards for his direction of LCT's production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific. His other LCT productions include Golden Boy, Blood & Gifts, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Awake and Sing!, and The Light in the Piazza. His other Broadway and Off-Broadway credits include The Bridges of Madison County, Prayer for My Enemy, The Butterfly Collection, Cymbeline, Waste, Don Juan, and Pericles. He directed the operas Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Le Comte Ory, L'Elisir d'Amore (Metropolitan Opera); Romeo et Juliette (Salzburg Festival and La Scala); Mourning Becomes Electra (Seattle Opera and New York City Opera); and Two Boys (Met and ENO). He was the Artistic Director of Seattle's Intiman Theatre and was also a Resident Director of Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater.

CHRISTOPHER GATTELLI returns to LCT after choreographing South Pacific (Tony, Outer Critics Circle nominations) and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. He won the Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle awards for his choreography of the Broadway production of Newsies. His other Broadway credits Sunday In The Park With George, Casa Valentina, 13, The Ritz, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, and High Fidelity. On the West End, Gattelli choreographed Silence! The Musical, Sunday In The Park With George, and tick... tick... BOOM!. Off-Broadway credits include Dogfight (Lortel Award), Altar Boyz (Lortel, Callaway awards; DD nom.), Bat Boy: The Musical! (Lortel Award), and tick... tick... BOOM! He has also worked on the films Hail and Casear! by the Coen Brothers.

Lincoln Center Theater's Platform series was introduced in the summer of 1998. Transcripts of the previous talks are available on-line at www.lct.org.

Photo by Walter McBride



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