November 18, 2016
SHN presents The King and I
Anna and the King dance again
Here’s an unlikely basis for a musical; a British schoolteacher’s experience in 19th century Siam. No more unlikely, you might say, than Chinese life in modern San Francisco, or the intersection of American soldiers and natives on a small island during World War II, or the struggles of settlers in American Indian territory. And yet all four were made into musicals, and hit musicals at that. The second...