‘The King’ and Us

‘The King’ and Us

„It is a puzzlement,” as Yul Brynner used to crow onstage, how Rodgers and Hammerstein, two American Jewish musical theater titans who promoted ethnic and racial tolerance, created such an insensitive spectacle as 1951’s „The King and I.” Now in its umpteenth Broadway revival, the musical comedy purports to show the historical figure of King…