'...all that is great about the original show is visible in this production, packed with strong singers, able actors, and dancers who, led by choreographer Darren Lee, effortlessly bring Jerome Robbins’s original dances to life.' | Jack Helbig
, based on Margaret Landon’s novel,, is one of the warhorses of musical theater. The original run was three years , and it has been revived with a mind-numbing regularity since, produced seemingly by every professional and amateur theater at one time or another. And why wouldn’t it? It contains almost nothing a middlebrow, middle-class, white, heterosexual audience could object to—no sex, no overt political messages, and it features a squirming gaggle of kids running around the stage.
Director Alan Paul wisely avoids yellowface. Most of the major characters in the court are played by Asian actors.; his portrayal of King Mongkut is powerful and dignified. He avoids any of the thundering cartoonish buffoonery that Yul Brynner indulged in.
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