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The King and I

Music by Richard Rodgers
Libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II
First performance March 29, 1951, St. James Theatre, New York

Time and Place: In and around the King's palace, Bangkok, Siam. 1860s

The Articles

Synopsis
Notes
Richard Rodgers
Oscar Hammerstein II
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Productions
Musical Theatre
Buddhism
Bibliography

Thailand-Siam
The Historic Figures
  The Europeans
    Anna and Louis Leonowens
    Other Europeans
  The Siamese
     King Mongkut
     Chulalongkorn
     Other Siamese

The Cast
(In order of appearance)
Louis Leonowens
Captain Orton
Anna Leonowens
The Kralahome
The Interpreter
King Mongkut
Lun Tha, a Burmese emmisary
Tuptim, a Burmese girl
Lady Thiang, Mongkut's chief wife
Chulalongkorn, the heir apparaent
Sir Edward Ramsey
Wives, children, servants and slaves, British guests

Revised February 2006
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