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- As already announced, Call the Midwife star Helen George will play the lead role of Anna in the show. She will be joined by Broadway stage star Darren Lee (Chicago, Guys and Dolls) as the King of Siam, with Dean John-Wilson (The King and I) as Lun Tha, Marienella Phillips (Henry V) as Tuptim, and Cezarah Bonner as Lady Thiang.
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Nov 22, 2019 · From Angela Lansbury to Rachel York, seven starry actresses who have played the iconic heroine Anna Leonowens in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s "The King and I."
- Gertrude Lawrence. Legendary British actress Gertrude Lawrence – friend, castmate, and mischievous muse to the eternally witty Noël Coward – won a Tony Award as Anna Leonowens in the original 1951 Broadway production of The King and I, starring Yul Brynner as the King.
- Angela Lansbury. Angela Lansbury lived-lived-LIVED in Mame, baked the worst pies in London in Sweeney Todd, and solved all crimes great and small in TV’s Murder She Wrote.
- Barbara Cook. Whether she was dreaming of a white knight in The Music Man or swooning over vanilla ice cream in She Loves Me, Broadway darling Barbara Cook knew how to enchant audiences.
- Donna Murphy. Broadway superstar Donna Murphy won her second Tony Award as Anna in the 1996 revival of The King and I, starring Lou Diamond Phillips.
Jan 19, 2023 · Full casting has been announced for the forthcoming UK and Ireland tour of The King & I, Bartlett Sher’s Tony Award winning Lincoln Center Theater revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic. As already announced, Call the Midwife star Helen George will play the lead role of Anna in the show.
Anna Leonowens. A Welsh-born widow from Victorian England, Anna has been engaged by the King of Siam as teacher to the royal children. Though her late husband was an Officer in Her Majesty’s Army, Anna is visiting Siam for the first time.
That same year she played one of her best-remembered screen roles, "Mrs. Anna" in The King and I (1956). More success followed in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), An Affair to Remember (1957), Separate Tables (1958), The Sundowners (1960), The Innocents (1961) and The Night of the Iguana (1964).
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A U.K. national tour starred Ramon Tikaram as the King and Josefina Gabrielle as Anna, directed by Paul Kerryson, with choreography by David Needham. It opened in December 2011 in Edinburgh and continued into May 2012.
Mary Beth Peil was the last actress to star as Mrs. Anna opposite Yul Brynner's iconic King of Siam. She recounts what it was like to join him in the production during the last two years of...
