The King and I National Tour- Page 2

[adamgreer]

Posted: 9/16/17 at 11:06pm

Mister Matt, you're right about the lack of sexual tension before and during Shall We Dance. I thought it was because the understudy I had just wasn't giving her anything to work with, however. I'm sad if it's just not coming across in this production. I hate to keep returning to the Broadway production. But with O'Hara and Hoon Lee, there was palpable sexual tension there. Last night, it just sat there. I tend to lay blame on the King, because as I said, Laura Michelle Kelly was perfection. 

[JIMG3]

Posted: 9/17/17 at 10:11pm

Updated On: 9/17/17 at 10:11 PM

[lizzyzigs]

Posted: 10/17/17 at 4:30pm

Does anyone know if Laura Michelle Kelly will still be performing in King and I  through the end of 2017? 

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 10/20/17 at 7:34am

For the next four stops Heather Botts will be playing Anna and Madeline Trumble will be the standby. 

[lizzyzigs]

Posted: 10/20/17 at 12:04pm

Could you clarify what that means “four stops”? Is that four cities or...

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 10/20/17 at 12:05pm

I sure, four cities. Through November 12th

[lizzyzigs]

Posted: 10/20/17 at 12:15pm

So if the St. Louis run starts on 11/28 she should be back? 

[lizzyzigs]

Posted: 12/10/17 at 10:59am

Does anyone know—I realize this is random question....but who the broadway cares ppl are who come out after the show? One of them was very nice she was trying to help us get a signed poster for my niece when they’d run out. She said she was the “manager” but I know there are several different managers involved with the show. She had short dark hair. I just wanted to tweet her a “thank you”....

Does anyone have any idea who that might be?

[BwayLB]

Posted: 1/22/18 at 9:19pm

My aunt and I are going March 11th 1pm when the tour completes its stop in Costa Mesa. We got balcony seating reserved at will call

[faceleg]

Posted: 1/22/18 at 10:34pm

I enjoyed the tour, but was very annoyed with the curtain that was constantly being closed and opened. Was that in the Broadway production?

[dmwnc1959]

Posted: 1/23/18 at 12:40pm

faceleg said: "I enjoyed the tour, but was very annoyed with the curtain that was constantly being closed and opened. Was that in the Broadway production?"

This most certainly wasn’t even the case when I saw the show last April in Pittsburgh when the National Tour came through. I’d definitely remember something like that. The only time the curtains closed was at the end of Act 1, and again at the end of the show before curtain call. 

 

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 1/23/18 at 12:45pm

How much longer is this tour expected to run? Will it go non-eq?

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 1/23/18 at 1:38pm

It's currently booked through mid-August with a month-long stop in Toronto. My guess would be that would be the end of it's life as an Equity tour. I could see NETworks trying to eek another year out of it as a non-Equity tour and hitting all those tertiary markets where the average patron base would lap up any production of a Rodgers and Hammerstein show.

[faceleg]

Posted: 1/23/18 at 6:52pm

dmwnc1959 said: "faceleg said: "I enjoyed the tour, but was very annoyed with the curtain that was constantly being closed and opened. Was that in the Broadway production?"

This most certainly wasn’t even the case when I saw the show last April in Pittsburgh when the National Tourcame through. I’d definitely remember something like that.The only time the curtains closed was at the end of Act 1, and again at the end of the show before curtain call.

"

This was an onstage curtain that was used several times during scene changes. 

 

[dmwnc1959]

Posted: 1/23/18 at 7:50pm

faceleg said: "This was an onstage curtain that was used several times during scene changes."

Sorry, but I just don’t remember an onstage curtain during scene changes either. I’m sure I would have found this annoying as well if it was done constantly. Maybe someone else who has seen the tour in another city can chime in as well with their experience. 

 

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 1/23/18 at 8:18pm

All I can remember about the curtain being used in during the show is when lady thiang closes it.

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 1/23/18 at 8:55pm

The curtain in the Bway production was beautiful: a shimmery red/ gold silk velvet with overpainting that could be frontlit or backlit and traveled on a traveler track across the stage to cinematically wipe from one scene to the next. A few beats with the young princes (the Puzzlement reprise was one) happened in front of the curtain in a kind of "in one". They would be stupid to omit that very effective and affordable set piece from the national tour.

Updated On: 1/23/18 at 08:55 PM

[dmwnc1959]

Posted: 1/23/18 at 9:42pm

Someone in a Tree2 said: "The curtain in the Bway production was beautiful: a shimmery red/ gold silk velvet with overpainting that could be frontlit or backlit andtraveled on a traveler track across the stage to cinematically wipe from one scene to the next. A few beats with the young princes (the Puzzlementreprise was one)happened in front of the curtain in a kind of "in one". They would be stupid to omitthat very effective and affordable set piece from the national tour."

Your description of the curtain itself reminds me of the one used during the performance I saw, seen here at the end of Act 1...

Updated On: 1/23/18 at 09:42 PM

[faceleg]

Posted: 1/23/18 at 10:13pm

That's the curtain. Maybe they were having some.sort of tech difficulty when I saw it? Cause they closed it quite a bit for some scene changes. I remember it more in the first act than act 2. It was to the point that I was comparing it to a high school production that closes the curtain for every scene change.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 1/24/18 at 10:17am

Call_me_jorge said: "For the next four stops Heather Botts will be playing Anna and Madeline Trumble will be the standby."

HOLY CRAP I saw Madeline Trumble in community theatre when she was a kid. 

[fashionguru_23]

Posted: 1/24/18 at 11:01am

Does anyone know who long Jose Llana, and Laura Michelle Kelly are with the show?

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 1/24/18 at 11:19am

I remember reading(maybe on here) LMK would be leaving sometime this spring and Madeline would take over.