The King & I set to tour the UK in 2019

Following its season at the London Palladium, comes the announcement that The King & I will embark on a major UK tour from Spring 2019.

The King & I

Following its season at the London Palladium, comes the announcement that The King & I will embark on a major UK tour from Spring 2019.

The production will open at Manchester Opera House on 26th April before visiting venues in Edinburgh, Leeds, and Cardiff, among others.

The tour is currently due to conclude in May 2020.

About The King & I

Set in 1860s Bangkok, the musical tells the story of the unconventional and tempestuous relationship that develops between the King of Siam and Anna Leonowens, a British schoolteacher whom the modernist King, in an imperialistic world, brings to Siam to teach his many wives and children.

The show includes songs such as Whistle a Happy Tune, Getting to Know You and Shall We Dance, featuring a company of more than 50 world-class performers, and full scale orchestra.

Tony Award-winning Bartlett Sher will once again direct the production and be reunited with the creative team that brought the production to life at the Palladium earlier this year.

Producer Howard Panter commented: “This really is musical theatre at its very best, so we are thrilled that we can now share this wonderous production with theatre lovers up and down the country next year.”

Tickets for the tour are now on sale.

Selected tour dates

• Manchester Opera House: 26th April – 11th May

• Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin: 26 April – 11 May 2019

• Sunderland Empire: 5th – 15th June 2019

• Edinburgh Playhouse: 16th – 26th October 2019

• Leeds Grand Theatre: 29th October – 9th November 2019

• New Alexandra Theatre Birmingham: 10th December 2019 – 4th January 2020

• Cardiff Millenium Centre: 8th – 18th January 2020

• King’s Theatre Glasgow: 28th January – 8th February 2020

• New Theatre Hull: 11th – 22nd February 2020

• Milton Keynes Theatre: 25th February – 7th March 2020