Anna Leonowens eccentric Victorian female traveler". The novel was adapted as a hit musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, "The King and I" (1951), starring Gertrude Lawrence and Yul Brynner, which ran 1,246 performances on Broadway and was also a hit in London and on tour. In 1956, a film version was released, with Deborah Kerr starring in the role of Leonowens and Brynner reprising his role as the king. Revived many times on stage (with Brynner starring in revivals until 1985), the musical has remained a favourite of the theatregoing public. The humorous depiction of Mongkut as a polka-dancing despot, as well
Deborah Berger the 2015 exhibit "When the Curtain Never Comes Down" at the American Folk Art Museum. 2015 Behind the Mask: Performance, Ritual, and the Artist 2011 DEBORAH BERGER! CROCHET!!! Deborah Berger Deborah Berger (1956 – May 21, 2005) was an American artist noted for her oeuvre of brightly colored textile works created in knitting and crochet. She is considered an outsider artist and a prodigy. Deborah Berger was born in 1956 in New Jersey. Berger was born with autism and attended boarding schools for special needs children in Texas and Pennsylvania. Deborah Berger started knitting as a young child. By the