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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

 

 

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

 

“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.

 

 

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

 

Sr. Paul's musicale program including Dad BEST PHOTO.jpg

 

Alan Smith, musician, was my father.

 

— Roger W. Smith

    February 2016