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 Meadows Poetry capable of elevating the reader into new ways of thinking about language often runs the risk of isolating and ostracizing the reader through challenge and difficulty in the breakage of paradigms. … In Deborah Meadows’s latest collection of writing, "The Demotion of Pluto: Poems and Plays", these fine lines are approached and often transcended through the poet’s consistent use of external influences and forces. Deborah Meadows Deborah Meadows (born 1956) is an American poet and playwright and essayist. Meadows has published more than ten books of poetry, as well as essays, plays, and lithographs. She was nominated for Los