The multi Tony Award-winning production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's THE KING AND I will transfer from Broadway to London this month following a critically acclaimed 16 month run at New York's Lincoln Center Theater and an unprecedented continuing record-breaking sold out USA tour.
Takao Osawa, the multi-award-winning actor and star of one of Japan's most popular television series JIN, will join the cast of THE KING AND I to play the Kralahome, trusted adviser to The King of Siam, when the smash hit musical transfers from Broadway to the London Palladium for "London's theatrical event of 2018" (Daily Express) on 21 June (Press Night 3 July).
Vibrant videos of saturated color on the 30-foot high backdrops combined with the elaborately detailed and bright traditional Chinese costuming make Shen Yun 2015 an explosion of bodies and hues in perpetual motion.
In "Fragments: Poetry - Ancient and Modern" (ISBN 1470023628), poet Blue Flute blends poems from all parts of the ancient world with a selection of modern verse. The book's first half is devoted to verse culled from lost, antiquarian worlds. Flute digs deep into world history to unearth poems from ancient Greece and Rome as well as Israel in its most archaic iteration.