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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?

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was a wonderful time for a wonderful generation.

 

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I have posted a few of my favorite songs from The King and I.

It is probably my favorite Broadway musical.

I often choke up and get goose bumps … in part because I think of my father, Alan Smith; and his dear friends and collaborators J. Arthur (Joe) Williams and Rev. A. Paul Gallivan (Father Paul).

It was a wonderful time for a wonderful generation: that of my parents. How I miss them; their deeds and their music.

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

   March 2023

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

 

 

Alan Smith, musician, was my father.

 

— Roger W. Smith

    February 2016