Ashley Park, Kelli O’Hara, Hoon Lee, Ruthie Ann Miles and the cast of The King and I. Photo by Paul Kolnick
Lincoln Center Theater’s Tony Award winning production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I, starring Tony Award-winners Kelli O’Hara as Anna Leonowens and Ruthie Ann Miles as Lady Thiang, and Hoon Lee as King of Siam, will be the only Broadway production performing on New Year’s Eve – Thursday, December 31, at 7:00 pm. In honor of the holiday, Lincoln Center Theater will offer complimentary glasses of champagne to patrons prior to the performance that evening.
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Tickets to the special New Year’s Eve performance of The King and I are available at the Lincoln Center Theater box office (150 West 65 Street), at telecharge.com, or by visiting KingandIBroadway.com.
Kelli O’Hara, Hoon Lee. Photo by Paul Kolnik
Recently named one of the Best Broadway Shows of 2015 by The New York Times, Associated Press, Entertainment Weekly, The Hollywood Reporter, Time Magazine, Time Out New York, BuzzFeed and The Wrap, the cast recording of The King and I has also been nominated for a Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album, and is in contention with the cast recordings of An American in Paris, Fun Home, Hamilton, and Something Rotten.
Kelli O’Hara, Hoon Lee. Photo by Paul Kolnik
Bartlett Sher. Photo by Lia Chang
Helmed by multiple Tony Award winning director Bartlett Sher, the 51 member company features Ashley Park (as Tuptim), Conrad Ricamora (as Lun Tha), Edward Baker-Duly (as Sir Edward Ramsey), Jon Viktor Corpuz (as Prince Chulalongkorn), Murphy Guyer (as Captain Orton), Jake Lucas (as Louis), Paul Nakauchi (as Kralahome), and Marc Oka (as Phra Alack).
THE KING AND I cast also includes Analisa Leaming, Adriana Braganza, Amaya Braganza, LaMae Caparas, Hsin-Ping Chang, Andrew Cheng, Lynn Masako Cheng, Olivia Chun, Ali Ewoldt, Bonale Fambrini, Lydia Gaston, Ethan Halford Holder, MaryAnn Hu, James Ignacio, Misa Iwama, Jim Kaplan, Christie Kim, Mindy Lai, Q Lim, Kelvin Moon Loh, Sumie Maeda, Paul HeeSang Miller, William Poon, Emilio Ramos, Brian Rivera, Bennyroyce Royon, Lainie Sakakura, Ann Sanders, Ian Saraceni, Julius Sermonia, Atsuhisa Shinomiya, Michiko Takemasa, Kei Tsuruharatani, Christopher Vo, Rocco Wu, Timothy Yang and Minami Yusui.
The 58th Annual GRAMMY® Awards, the preeminent award for excellence in music, will be presented Monday, Feb. 15, 2016, live from STAPLES Center in Los Angeles and broadcast on the CBS Television Network from 8 – 11:30 p.m. (ET/PT).
Congratulations to Grammy nominees Ruthie Ann Miles, Kelli O’Hara, Ashley Park, Conrad Ricamora & Ken Watanabe, principal soloists; David Caddick, David Lai & Ted Sperling, producers (Richard Rodgers, composer; Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist) (2015 Broadway Cast)[Universal Music Classics].
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