Helen George, recognized to thousands and thousands for the previous decade as Trixie within the hit BBC One sequence Call The Midwife, will star as Anna Leonowens in a serious new UK tour of the beloved Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I, starting at Canterbury’s Marlowe Theatre on 4 February. Having skilled on the Royal Academy of Music and the Birmingham School of Acting, Helen’s musical theatre credit embody Company, Love Never Dies and The Woman In White.
This gloriously lavish manufacturing will likely be delivered to the stage by an internationally famend inventive staff underneath Tony Award-winning director Bartlett Sher (South Pacific / My Fair Lady / To Kill a Mockingbird) and can function a world-class firm of over 50 gifted performers and a full-scale orchestra.
Following a critically acclaimed Broadway smash-hit run, a sold-out season on the London Palladium (which resulted within the greatest world reside occasion cinema launch of 2018) and a earlier record-breaking UK and International tour, this multi-Tony Award-winning manufacturing returns to venues all around the nation subsequent 12 months – visiting Canterbury, Wimbledon, Liverpool, Birmingham, Llandudno, High Wycombe, Bristol, Dartford, Bradford, Southend, Cardiff, Glasgow and Dublin. Further UK cities and particulars of a serious worldwide tour will likely be introduced quickly.
Helen George stated:
“Theatre is my first love, and I am so excited to be returning to the stage for this beautiful, majestic production of The King and I. I was blown away when I saw Bartlett Sher’s staging of this wonderful show, so I can’t wait to work with him and the rest of the creative team to bring this timeless story back to the stage next year. Anna is such a strong, passionate and determined character, and I’m going to relish bringing her to life every night, as well as giving audiences all over the UK the chance to see this peerless Broadway and West End musical right on their doorstep.”
The King and I is a luxurious, timeless romance from the golden age of musicals, adored by the general public and critics alike – and boasting one of many most interesting scores ever written, together with ‘Whistle a Happy Tune’, ‘Getting to Know You’, and ‘Shall We Dance’.
Set in 1860s Bangkok, The King and I tells the story of the unconventional and tempestuous relationship that develops between the King of Siam and Anna Leonowens, a British schoolteacher whom the modernist King, in an imperialistic world, brings to Siam to show his many wives and kids.
Further casting for the UK tour will likely be introduced quickly.
THE KING AND I – 2023 UK TOUR DATES
4–11 February – Canterbury Marlowe Theatre
14–18 February – Wimbledon New Theatre
21–25 February – Liverpool Empire Theatre
28 Feb–4 March – Birmingham Alexandra Theatre
7–11 March – Llandudno Venue Cymru
14–18 March – High Wycombe Swan Theatre
28 Mar–1 April – Bristol Hippodrome
4–8 April – Dartford Orchard Theatre
11–15 April – Bradford Alhambra Theatre
18–22 April – Southend Cliffs Pavilion
25–29 April – Cardiff New Theatre
2–6 May – Hull New Theatre
16–20 May – Glasgow Kings Theatre
27 June–1 July – Dublin Bord Gáis Energy Theatre
*Helen George will carry out on Wednesday – Saturday performances, at venues as much as and together with Cardiff New Theatre