THE KING & I - A musical on the main stage.
June 17-19 & 23-26, 2016
East versus West makes for a dramatic, richly textured and ultimately uplifting tale of enormous facination. It is 1862 in Siam when an English widow, Anna Leonowens, and her young son arrive at the Royal Palace in Bangkok, having been summoned by the King to serve as tutor to his many children and wives. The King is largely considered to be a barbarian by those in the West, and he seeks Anna's assistance in changing his image, if not his ways. With both keeping a firm grip on their respective traditions and values, Anna and the King grow to understand and, eventually, respect one another, in a unique love story. Along with the dazzling score, the incomparable Jerome Robbins balet, 'The Small House of Uncle Thomas', is one of the all-time marbels of the musical stage.