‘King and I’ draws modern-day insights
PHOTO BY DON GROFF
Kristina Hess plays Anna Leonowens in Bettsville Community Theater's production of “The King and I.”
A widow, Anna Leonowens, travels to an exotic, distant land to teach English and raise her son. In the process, the English school teacher discovers she has much to learn from her Siamese students and their father, the King of Siam, whose proud exterior masks his concern for his family and his nation.
Bettsville Schools is to present a community production of “The King and I” at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday at the school. Based on a true story, the musical is set in the independent country of Siam in the mid-1800s. In the role of Anna is Kristina Hess, a Bettsville teacher who is about the right age for the character she plays.
Director Martin Williams was able to include many students in the large cast. Adam Huffman, who portrays the king, was allowed to retain his hair, rather than appear with the traditional bald head.
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