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Alfred Drake, Zachary Scott, Herbert Lom, Farley Granger and Ricardo Montalban have all played the role, but for 34 years Yul Brynner has been the first and only King of Siam--an Oriental patriarch who is also a gigolo in jade. He is onstage perhaps half as much as the actress who plays Anna, the Englishwoman who educates the King's children; and of the half-dozen songs that still elate the memory (Hello, Young Lovers, Getting to Know You, I Whistle a Happy Tune, etc., etc., etc.), the King sings none. It matters not. By dint of dogged charisma...
MARRIED. Yul Brynner, 62, the long-running King of Siam now approaching his 4,000th performance as the monarch in The King and I; and Kathy Lee, 25, Malaysian principal dancer in the current show, which is touring the Western U.S.; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in San Francisco...
...Business section days, Church followed a less conventional but surefire ritual to get his journalistic juices flowing: a pre-cover-story haircut. Alas, he laments, "I've had to abandon that practice since moving to Nation. Cover stories come more frequently here. I'd be the Yul Brynner of the section...
...Ethel Merman would appear together in a two-woman show on Broadway. And so it finally happened in a one-night benefit replete with hoops and hoopla and costumes from South Pacific, Gypsy and, of course, Hello, Dolly! Briefly joining the high jinks onstage were the likes of Yul Brynner, Burgess Meredith, Joel Grey and Geoffrey Holder-who kicked up their heels in an all-male chorus line. When it was over, Ethel, 68, sighed, "Fm on Cloud Nine," and Mary. 63, was still savoring the roars of the audience. "It was like we had hit twelve home runs...
Nostalgia is Broadway's top growth industry. And how could a stroll down the fond memory lane of great musicals be complete without a revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I? The first and only true King, Yul Brynner, still rules the stage in the way that a mountain peak dominates its surroundings, and he has proved as immutable in appearance. Audiences have been humming the enduring, enchanting score ever since the opening night of 26 years ago. This production dwarfs recent musicals in its opulence. The dances, originally choreographed by Jerome Robbins, are drolly...