The King and I to return to the West End in 2024 with Helen George

The King and I will return to London’s West End in 2024!

Following its ongoing tour, the Lincoln Center Theater production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical will head to the Dominion Theatre for a limited season from 20 January – 2 March 2024. Tickets are on sale now here.

Call The Midwife star Helen George will star as Anna Leonowens with Darren Lee as The King. Full casting is to be announced.

Helen George said: “I am so delighted to continue to play the formidable Anna Leonowens in this incredible production of The King and I. I have really enjoyed playing such an incredibly strong character whilst on tour, but to play her on the West End stage is an honour.”

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 over 50 world-class performers, and full scale orchestra, The King And I is a testament to the lavish heritage of gloriously romantic musical theatre – it is the greatest musical from the golden age of musicals.

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The production debuted on Broadway in 2015 before first running in the West End in 2018.

Bartlett Sher directs with a creative team including set designer Michael Yeargan, costume designer Catherine Zuber, lighting designer Donald Holder, sound designer Scott Lehrer, orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett, dance and incidental music arranged By Trude Rittmann, musical supervisor Stephen Ridley, casting director Serena Hill, children’s dasting director Debbie O’Brien and musical director.

For more information, visit nederlander.co.uk