The multi Tony Award winning production of the The King And I will embark on a major UK tour from Spring 2019.
Casting will be announced early in the new year, and the show will come to Milton Keynes in 2020.
The news of the tour comes hot off the heels of the cinema release of the live production of The King And I: From The London Palladium, which has become the biggest live event in cinemas of 2018 following last week’s first global screenings.
In the UK the film reached the number one spot, with more than double the box office of the next film, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.
Such has been the demand for tickets, Trafalgar Releasing has scheduled encore screenings both in the UK and globally throughout December and into 2019. The film has already broken all equivalent records.
Acclaimed Tony Award-winning Bartlett Sher will once again direct the forthcoming production.
Set in 1860s Bangkok, the musical 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 teach his many wives and children.
With one of the finest scores ever written including Whistle a Happy Tune, Getting to Know You and Shall We Dance, featuring a company of more than 50 world-class performers, and full scale orchestra, The King And I is testament to the lavish heritage of gloriously romantic musical theatre – it is the greatest musical from the golden age of musicals.
“The response from London audiences to this multi award-winning production of THE KING AND I was unprecedented," said producer Howard Panter.
"Critical plaudits, Box Office records and standing ovations at every show - we were overwhelmed with the rapturous response.
"This really is musical theatre at its very best, so we are thrilled that we can now share this wondrous production with theatre lovers up and down the country next year.”
The King And I will be at Milton Keynes Theatre from February 25 to March 7, 2020.
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