The fleet is in, and I’m here to say that at least one sailor docked in New York as part of the U.S. Navy’s week of Memorial Day festivities wandered uptown to see THE KING AND I.
Or Matias, music director of PRELUDES, has developed a deep connection to Rachmaninoff and his music over the past two years he has worked with Rachel Chavkin and Dave Malloy in developing the show.
“Did the United States ever have a monarch?” asked one of the teenagers amassing outside the Vivian Beaumont before this week’s Wednesday matinee of THE KING AND I.