Stephanie Augustine
Doria Avila
Jamie Bauer
Lee Becker
Mary Burr
Duane Camp
Raul Celada
Cristanta Cornejo
Rodolfo Cornejo
Robert Cortazal
Robin Craven
Beau Cunningham
Andrea del Rosario
Shellie Farrell
Charles Francis
Evelyn Giles
Tommy Gomez
Leonard Graves
Thomas Griffin
Geraldine Hamburg
Maribel Hammer
Marcia James
Margie James
John Juliano
Ruth Korda
Ina Kurland
Suzanne Lake
Norma Larkin
Miriam Lawrence
Baayork Lee
Barbara Luna
Nancy Lynch
Alfonso Maribo
James Maribo
Gloria Marlowe
Jack Matthew
Carolyn Maye
Len Mence
Helen Merritt
Helen Murielle
Ed Preston
Orlando Rodriguez
Corrine St Denis
Johnny Stewart
Nora Suarez
Prue Ward
Bunny Warner
Phyllis Wilcox
Dusty Worrall
Yuriko
Annamary Dickey
Patricia Morison
Patrick Adiarte
Purie Adiarte
Beverly Alleman
Michael Allen
Sara Aman
Otis Bigelow
Dennis Bonilla
Thomas Bonilla
Yvette Cardinoza
Jackie Collins
Jenny Collins
John Connoughton
Ronn Cummins
Barbara Davenport
Bettina Dearborn
Joan Fitzmaurice
Joan Garcia
Murray Gitlin
Jeanne Grant
Carmen Gutierrez
Ina Hahn
Jacqueline Hairston
Lorraine Havercroft
Julienne Hendricks
Rhoda Johannson
Dania Krupska
Lawrence Lee
Ronnie Lee
Geraldine Lorente
Carole Luna
Lucinda Macy
Richard Mercado
Sal Mineo
Anne Needham
Barbara Norman
Claire Pasch
Frances Russell
Meryl Sargent
Terry Saunders
Ruth Schoeni
Helena Schurgot
Jan Scott
Leon Shaw
Toby Stevens
Tao Strong
Beryl Towbin
Marie Traficante
Cordelia Ware

Creative team

Director: John van Druten
Choreographer: Jerome Robbins
Producer: Lee Guber & Shelly Gross

Tony Awards 5 from 5 nominations

Best Musical

Won

Recordings 1 released while this run was on

1951

The King and I (1951 original Broadway cast) Decca Records DL 9008, released 1951

United States

22 more exist for other runs of this show: see The King and I for all of them.

Around this production

Gertrude Lawrence, who initiated the project, died during the run. Yul Brynner would go on to play the King over 4,600 times across multiple productions.

'The King and I' [1951], Williamson can make no tragedy of the story, because none has been set up but also because he isn’t putting much into it.

More Opening Nights On Broadway Steven Suskin, p. 793

Lines such as “At standing she could be sitting” and “Having happily had it with a spoon” reminded him of dialogue from The King and I at its “most Siamese.”

The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Hardcover 2014 Rowman Lit, p. 247

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