Tag: The King and I
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New ‘The King and I’ Musical in the Works From Paramount, Temple Hill
Paramount has acquired the rights to Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “The King and I” and will release a new musical that Temple Hill will produce.Concord, who acquired the Rodgers & Hammerstein catalogue in 2017, will also produce. The new musical will be a retelling of the classic “East-meets-West story,” according to the studio.The film will follow…
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Patricia Morison, Stage Star of ‘Kiss Me, Kate’, Dies at 103
Patricia Morison, who starred as shrewish diva Lilli Vanessi in the original 1948 Broadway production of “Kiss Me, Kate” as well as Anna Leonowens in the 1954 run of “The King and I” opposite Yul Brynner, died of natural causes in her Los Angeles home Sunday. She was 103.Morison was born on March 15, 1915…