{"id":54764,"date":"2023-01-24T01:52:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T01:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/24\/darren-lee-and-dean-john-wilson-to-join-helen-george-in-the-king-and-i-there-ought-to-be-clowns\/"},"modified":"2023-01-24T01:52:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T01:52:17","slug":"darren-lee-and-dean-john-wilson-to-hitch-helen-george-in-the-king-and-i-there-ought-to-be-clowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/24\/darren-lee-and-dean-john-wilson-to-hitch-helen-george-in-the-king-and-i-there-ought-to-be-clowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren Lee and Dean John-Wilson to hitch Helen George in The King and I \u2013 There Ought To Be Clowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Additional casting has been unveiled for the touring manufacturing of <em>The King and I<\/em>, which commences quickly in Canterbury.<\/h2>\n<p>Joining <strong>Helen George<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Call the Midwife<\/em>) as Anna can be Broadway star <strong>Darren Lee<\/strong> (<em>Chicago, Guys and Dolls<\/em>) within the title function of the King of Siam. <strong>Dean John-Wilson<\/strong> (<em>The King and I<\/em>) will reprise his function as Lun Tha and<strong> Marienella Phillips<\/strong> (<em>Henry V\/Carmen<\/em>) will play Tuptim alongside <strong>Cezarah Bonner<\/strong> who returns as Lady Thiang, the King\u2019s head spouse.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kok-Hwa Lie<\/strong> (<em>The King And I<\/em>\u00a0tour) will play the function of Kralahome, <strong>Caleb Lagayan<\/strong> (<em>Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em>) will play Prince Chulalongkorn,<strong> Sam Jenkins-Shaw<\/strong> (<em>The Night Watch\/Jane Eyre<\/em>) takes the function of Captain Orton\/Sir Edward Ramsay and <strong>Maria Coyne<\/strong> (<em>The Phantom of the Opera\/Wicked<\/em>) would be the Alternate Anna.<\/p>\n<p>The ensemble consists of <strong>Chi Chan, Jeffrey Chekai, Emily Grace-Ling, Cher Nicolette Ho, Rachel Wang-Hei Lau, Daniel Len, Candy Ma, Rachel MacDougall, Amelia Kinu Muus, Yuki Ozeki, Kitt Pakapom, Prem Rai, Ria Tanaka, Hiromi Toyooka, Jasmine Triadi, Jensen Tudtud, Qinwen Xue <\/strong>and <strong>Jason Yang-Westland<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harry Altoft, Dexter Barry, Max Ivemey <\/strong>and <strong>Charlie McGuire<\/strong> will play Louis, Anna\u2019s son.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bethany Campbell, Coco Bridger, Cody Concha, Ethan Fung, Dulcie-Bella Hackley, Caitlin Lau, Khun Cho Lwin, Angelica Quynh An Nguyen, Tenzin Noryang, Sabri Leonel Puci, Niall Rina, Francis Benedict Sarte, Mia Snowdon, Yuen Zhai <\/strong>and <strong>Phoebe Zhao-Welsh<\/strong> will play the Royal youngsters.<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers and Hammerstein\u2019s musical tells the story of the tempestuous relationship between British schoolteacher Anna Leonowens and the King of Siam and can as soon as once more be directed by Tony winner Bartlett Sher.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE KING AND I \u2013 2023 UK TOUR DATES<\/strong><br \/>4\u201311 February \u2013 Canterbury Marlowe Theatre<br \/>14\u201318 February \u2013 Wimbledon New Theatre<br \/>21\u201325 February \u2013 Liverpool Empire Theatre<br \/>28 Feb\u20134 March \u2013 Birmingham Alexandra Theatre<br \/>7\u201311 March \u2013 Llandudno Venue Cymru<br \/>14\u201318 March \u2013 High Wycombe Swan Theatre<br \/>28 Mar\u20131 April \u2013 Bristol Hippodrome<br \/>4\u20138 April \u2013 Dartford Orchard Theatre<br \/>11\u201315 April \u2013 Bradford Alhambra Theatre<br \/>18\u201322 April \u2013 Southend Cliffs Pavilion<br \/>25\u201329 April \u2013 Cardiff New Theatre<br \/>2\u20136 May \u2013 Hull New Theatre<br \/>16\u201320 May \u2013 Glasgow Kings Theatre<br \/>27 June\u20131 July \u2013 Dublin Bord G\u00e1is Energy Theatre<br \/>*Helen George will carry out on Wednesday \u2013 Saturday performances, at venues as much as and together with Cardiff New Theatre<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Additional casting has been unveiled for the touring manufacturing of The King and I, which commences quickly in Canterbury. Joining Helen George\u00a0(Call the Midwife) as Anna can be Broadway star Darren Lee (Chicago, Guys and Dolls) within the title function of the King of Siam. Dean John-Wilson (The King and I) will reprise his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-54764","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\/54764","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=54764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}