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the second most beautiful Broadway song?

 

“We Kiss in a Shadow”

Tuptim, Lun-Tha

Rogers and Hammerstein, The King and I

 

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PDF (below) contains production credits from performances by the St. Paul’s Theatre Guild in Dorchester, MA

King and I

My father. Alan W. Smith, was Musical Director.

 

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the most beautiful Broadway song, ever

 

 

 

— posted by Roger W, Smith

  May 2025

the most beautiful Broadway song, ever

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“Something Wonderful”

from Rogers and Hammerstein’s The King and I

“Something Wonderful” is sung by Lady Thiang

 

My father. Alan W. Smith, was Musical Director of several productions of the King and I in Boston by the St. Paul Theatre Guild.

The role of Lady Thiang was played by Barbara Tyler and Andra Wahl in different productions by the St. Paul Theatre Guild.

I am so proud of my father.

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

   April 2025

 

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the second most beautiful Broadway song?

 

 

 

 

 

 

St. Paul Catholic church, Dorchester, MA, program, “The King and I,” 1958

 

Alan Smith, musical director, was my father.

 

Notable members of the cast (from my personal recollection):

Frank Schulte, the King

Barbara Tyler, Lady Thiang

 

Frank Schulte

Barbara Tyler

— Roger W. Smith

    February 2016