A Puzzlement Indeed: THE KING AND I Ponders #KingOfSiamProblems

By: Aug. 25, 2015
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Nobody ever said parenting was easy, but it can get ridiculous when you have several dozen children. Our friends at The King and I take a humorous look at some of the difficulties its leading man, King Mongkut of Siam, might have faced in modern times in their series #KingOfSiamProblems.

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Tony Award winner Kelli O'Hara stars as Anna alongside Jose Llana (who replaced Watanabe earlier this summer),Ruthie Ann Mile s(as Lady Thiang), Ashley Park (as Tuptim), Conrad Ricamora(as Lun Tha), Edward Baker-Duly (as Sir Edward Ramsey), Jon Viktor Corpuz (as Prince Chulalongkorn), Murphy Guyer (as Captain Orton),Jake Lucas (as Louis), Paul Nakauchi (as Kralahome), and Marc Oka (as Phra Alack).

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 1860s 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.


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