The King and I

• Broadway – St James Theatre (29 March 1951 – March 20 1954): 1246 performances, 3 years) starring Yul Brynner
• London – Theatre Royal Drury Lane (October 8 1953 – ): 946 performances. Starring Herbert Lom.
• London – Adelphi Theatre (October 10, 1973 – May 25, 1974) 260 performances
• Broadway – Gershwin Theatre (May 2, 1977 – 1979) 696 performances, starring Yul Brynner, following US tour
• London Palladium (June 12, 1979 – September 27, 1980) starring Yul Brynner
• Broadway – Broadway Theatre (January 1985 – June 30, 1985) 191 performances, starring Yul Brynner – by the end of the run, he had performed as The King a total of 4625 times.
• Broadway – Neil Simon Theatre (April 11, 1996 – ?) from the Australian production directed by Christopher Renshaw; ran for 780 performances
• London Palladium (May 3, 2000 – January 5 2002)
• Broadway – Vivian Beaumont Theatre (Previews March 12 2015, opened April 16, 2015, closed June 26, 2016 after 538 performances) (starring Kelli O’Hara and Ken Watanabe)
• London Palladium (June 2018)

Documents

LSI: The King and I (June 2000)
[3.82Mb PDF]
From Lighting & Sound International