"'THE ROYALE' has been a great experience,” Peters said. “We have a wonderful ensemble, and a play that concisely represents different points of view. It’s been a chance to learn about the politics of the time”
In terms of its score, THE KING AND I makes brilliant use of the reprise. In terms of its casting, the LCT production has been fortunate in another kind of repeat: in its casting for the monarch.
On reconnaissance before Wednesday evening's performance of THE KING AND I, at the top of the stairs that tumble down into the main part of the Vivian Beaumont lobby, I saw her: Jodie Foster.
If you ask Kelli O’Hara about THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA and SOUTH PACIFIC and THE KING AND I – the three shows she’s done at Lincoln Center Theater – she replies, succinctly, “I’ve grown up here.”
