: King and I
I’d never seen this “classic” musical. It’s not bad, but not as good as I expected. I’d actually heard of few of the songs before, but most are forgettable and I didn’t particularly like style of music (too old fashioned for my taste). Yul Brynner won an Oscar as the king of Siam, I don’t know why: his “Siamese” accent was terrible. In fact, most of the acting was bad, typical of musicals: singers are cast instead of actors. I can see that at one time this might have been more interesting, back when going to Siam was an exotic and rare journey, but these days with a global community at the touch of dial, it’s rather pedantic. Boring.
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