Hello, Young Lovers (song) Hello, Young Lovers (song) "Hello, Young Lovers" is a show tune from the 1951 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, "The King and I." It is sung by Anna, played by Gertrude Lawrence in the original Broadway production; by Valerie Hobson in the original London West End production; and by Deborah Kerr in the film version (although voiced-over by Marni Nixon). The heroine Anna sings this song when she tells the wives of the King of Siam about her late husband, and sympathises with the plight of Tuptim, the Burmese slave girl and newest wife of the king. Among popular versions are
Deborah Lee Kerr Deborah Lee Kerr Deborah Lee Kerr is a co-founder and President at Affintus. Before founding Affintus, she worked as an executive in private, public, and nonprofit organizations. Deborah is a performance management and measurement specialist. She led the development of the one of the nation’s first public sector balanced scorecards and the measurement system was recognized as one of the world’s best when it was elected to the Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame. For the Maxwell School of Government, Syracuse University, she served on the National Advisory Panel for Human Resource Performance Measurement to develop public sector performance measures for