NEW PHILADELPHIA — The national tour of Rodgers & Hammerstein's "The King and I," based on the 2015 Tony Award–winning Lincoln Center Theater Production, comes to the Performing Arts Center at Kent State University - Tuscarawas on April 17 at 7:30 p.m.
One of Rodgers & Hammerstein's finest works, "The King and I" boasts a score that features such beloved classics as "Getting To Know You," "I Whistle a Happy Tune," "Hello Young Lovers," "Shall We Dance" and "Something Wonderful."
In the words of Bartlett Sher, director of the 2015 Broadway production and the first national tour, "Great classics come back to us when we need them the most. In order to live up to the scale of its ambition, we have to go both backward and forward in time. It's like having one foot in the past as deeply as we can, one foot in the present, and our eyes looking out as far ahead as we can to see how it resonates."
Tickets for "The King and I" start at $55 and are on sale now at the Performing Arts Center box office, 330-308-6400 or online at www.kent.edu/tusc/pac. The box office is open Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.