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Helen George<\/strong>, recognized to thousands and thousands for the previous decade as Trixie within the hit BBC One sequence Call The Midwife<\/em>, will star as Anna Leonowens in a serious new UK tour of the beloved Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I<\/strong><\/em>, starting at Canterbury\u2019s Marlowe Theatre on 4 February. Having skilled on the Royal Academy of Music and the Birmingham School of Acting, Helen\u2019s musical theatre credit embody Company, Love Never Dies<\/em> and The Woman In White<\/em>.<\/p>\n 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 <\/em>Mockingbird<\/em>) and can function a world-class firm of over 50 gifted performers and a full-scale orchestra.<\/p>\n 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 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n Helen George stated:<\/p>\n \u201cTheatre 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\u2019s staging of this wonderful show, so I can\u2019t 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\u2019m 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The King and I<\/em> is a luxurious, timeless romance from the golden age of musicals, adored by the general public and critics alike \u2013 and boasting one of many most interesting scores ever written, together with \u2018Whistle a Happy Tune\u2019, \u2018Getting to Know You\u2019, and \u2018Shall We Dance\u2019. Further casting for the UK tour will likely be introduced quickly.<\/p>\n THE KING AND I \u2013 2023 UK TOUR DATES<\/span><\/strong> [ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] 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\u2019s Marlowe Theatre on 4 February. Having skilled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-drama"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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.<\/p>\n
4\u201311 February \u2013 Canterbury Marlowe Theatre<\/span>
14\u201318 February \u2013 Wimbledon New Theatre<\/span>
21\u201325 February \u2013 Liverpool Empire Theatre<\/span>
28 Feb\u20134 March \u2013 Birmingham Alexandra Theatre<\/span>
7\u201311 March \u2013 Llandudno Venue Cymru<\/span>
14\u201318 March \u2013 High Wycombe Swan Theatre<\/span>
28 Mar\u20131 April \u2013 Bristol Hippodrome<\/span>
4\u20138 April \u2013 Dartford Orchard Theatre<\/span>
11\u201315 April \u2013 Bradford Alhambra Theatre<\/span>
18\u201322 April \u2013 Southend Cliffs Pavilion<\/span>
25\u201329 April \u2013 Cardiff New Theatre<\/span>
2\u20136 May \u2013 Hull New Theatre<\/span>
16\u201320 May \u2013 Glasgow Kings Theatre<\/span>
27 June\u20131 July \u2013 Dublin Bord G\u00e1is Energy Theatre<\/span>
*Helen George will carry out on Wednesday \u2013 Saturday performances, at venues as much as and together with Cardiff New Theatre<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n