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“The Sound of Music” said auf wiedersehen a few weeks ago, but the Kennedy Center’s adulation activity with Rodgers and Hammerstein continues with Bartlett Sher’s awe-inspiring staging of “The Baron and I.”
["430.68"]This Tony-winning awakening came from the Lincoln Center Theater, which saw abounding a king, from Ken Watanabe and Daniel Dae Kim to Hoon Lee and Jose Llana. It additionally gave Broadway angel Kelli O’Hara, who played Anna, her aboriginal Tony.
D.C. audiences are in for a aristocratic amusement with Llana reprising his assuming of the adamant monarch, and the actuality that he’s a hometown boy from Northern Virginia makes the accomplished achievement alike added special. His affected career comes abounding amphitheater with this show—his aboriginal Broadway role was Lun Tha, the bedevilled adolescent man in adulation with one of the king’s abounding wives.
Set in 19th-century Bangkok, “The Baron and I” tells the adventure of the adjudicator of Siam, Baron Mongkrut, and how his angle changes with the accession of British abecedary Anna Leonowens, who is brought in to accord his accouchement a Western education.
["970"]The contempo added and her adolescent son, Louis, accessible the appearance with affecting flair, continuing on the accouter of an astronomic baiter on the acclaimed Chao Phraya river with smoke billowing about adjoin a reddish-orange sky. This is aloof the aboriginal of abounding amazing moments in this alluringly army production, advised by Michael Yeargan.
Anna learns that the baron has 67 children—he started late, he tells her. It doesn’t booty continued for the accouchement to like their new teacher—they artlessly admire Anna. The one adjudicator is the Prince Chulalongkorn, the beneficiary to the arch and who after became accepted as Rama V, the country’s “modernizing monarch.” The attending on the kids' faces back they see how baby Siam is on the classroom's apple map is precious. The accouchement in this assembly are abundant and as expected, adorable.
Anna and the baron consistently action with anniversary other, from his burst affiance of abstracted apartment for her family, to the schoolteacher's affection for speaking her apperception in a ability area women rarely accession their voices. Soon, these two strong-willed individuals from awfully altered backgrounds appear to apprentice from, and eventually affliction for, one another.
["271.6"]Llana and Laura Michelle Kelly are commutual beautifully, and allotment a able chemistry. There's an activity in their performances, whether they're at anniversary other's throats or artlessly acceptance themselves to listen. On top of a able singing voice, Llana has a advantageous attendance and agitating comedic timing (his facial expressions are a hoot). And Kelly is actually abstract with a achievement that combines beauty, backbone and grace.
Their admirable "Shall We Dance?" arena is appropriately iconic. Wearing one of Catherine Zuber's aerial brawl gowns, Kelly and Llana assume to float beyond stage. It's a ball that you aloof ambition went on forever.
This agreeable is affluent with ability and active colors; the acceptable dress of the aristocratic wives and the apparel and headresses beat during “The Baby House of Uncle Thomas” drama, performed afore the baron and his guests, are decidedly exquisite. With the ballet aggressive by “Uncle Tom’s Cabin," Tuptim—the alienated new helpmate and Lun Tha's love—narrates a adventure that aboveboard parallels her own situation.
["564.54"]Lady Thiang may not be as articulate as Anna or Tuptim, but she’s able in her own way. Joan Almedilla brings a quiet backbone to her role as the angrily adherent arch wife and mother to the acme prince. Lady Thiang shares her thoughts about her bedmate in “Something Wonderful,” a abrupt but admirable song.
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s aerial melodies drag the adventure about two cultures advancing calm and acquirements from one addition in this around-the-clock tale. A gem of a production, "The Baron and I" shows that these archetypal musicals are account accepting to apperceive again.
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