Title: The King and I
Date: Production opened Thursday 8th October 1953
Type: Musical
Location: Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London, England
Music: Richard Rodgers
Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
Book: Oscar Hammerstein II
Production: Original West End Production
Collection Folder: Folder 10B

Cast

Anna Leonowens: Valerie Hobson
The King: Herbert Lom
Lady Thiang: Muriel Smith
Lun Tha: Jan Muzurus
Tuptim: Doreen Duke
Prince Chulalongkorn: Timothy Brooking
The Kralahome: Martin Benson
Louis Leonowens: Roy Grant

Captain Orton: John Harvey
The Interpreter: Shaym Bahudur
Phra Alack: Thomas Hare
Princess Ying Yaowlak: Virginia Tarleton
Sir Edward Ramsay: Ronald Leigh Hunt

Princesses and Princes (The Royal Children): Souti Anthony, Ann Dickens, Daphne Long, Joyce Long, Florence Meyer, Linda Mooney, Philomena Morgan-Jones, Pat McEwan, Ali Houssein, Tamba Allen, Barry Barnett, Clive Bunyan, Tony Coletti, Michael Cove, Clarence Gordon, Dereck Rozario, Ronald Singer

The Royal Dancers: Sonya Hana, Joan Elvin, Jean Johnston, Elizabeth Parks, Silvia Herklots, Josephine Spaull, Patricia Hawkes, Denise Merrum, Joan Boyd, Maureen Webster, Patricia Colbourne, Dorothy Fraser, Gladys Allgood, Julie Musgrove, Ann Roberts, Joan Turner, Brigitte Kelly, Sheila Kennedy

Slaves: Ivor Meggido, Rikki Septimus, Barrie Irwin, Gilbert Brunett
Wives: Danutta Karel, Barbara Lewis, Joan Drummond, Nan Williams, Delia Manon, Hilde du Toit, Phyllis Anderson, Dorina Gregory, Joan Merritt, Maureen Hartley
Amazons: Mary Midwinter, Ann Pidgeon, Merle Arundale, Lee Vernon
Priests: Henry Goodier, Ivor Emmanuel, James Appleby, Frank O’Connor, Joe McBride, Andrew Cole

Crew

For The King and I

Producer: Williamson Music Ltd.
Director: John van Druten
Production Supervisor: Jerome Whyte

Costume Design: Irene Sharaff
Set and Lighting Design: Jo Mielziner
Choreography: Jerome Robbins
Choreography Re-produced by: June Graham
Assistant to Ms. Graham: Jaimie Bauer
Orchestrations: Robert Russell Bennett
Musical Director: Reginald Burston
Ballet Master: Rikki Septimus

Scenery Supervision: Louis Walton
Scenery Painting: Alick Johnstone
Property Construction: E. Boxall
Ballet Headdress Reproduction: Hugh Skillen
Costume Execution: B. J. Simmons & Co.
Hair: Phylis Earle Ltd.

For Williamson Music Ltd.

Company Manager: William Stiles
Stage Manager: Jack Miller
Assistant Stage Managers: Jack Waters, James Smith
Master Carpenter: Louis Walton
Chief Engineer: George Wright
Property Master: E. Boxall
Wardrobe Mistress: May Cole

For the Theatre Royal Drury Lane

Chairman: Prince Littler
General Manager: Frank C. Marshall
Manager: S. F. Webb
Assistant Manager:
Secretary: R. E. Gray
Treasurer: J. Murray Ashford
Box Office Manager: T. G. Rees

Programme Printed By: Henry Good & Sons Ltd., London