The Economist asks: How do you revive a classic musical as a tale for today?
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Anne McElvoy heads to the Palladium theatre in London to interview Bartlett Sher, Tony award-winning director of βThe King & Iβ. They discuss the challenges of reviving a story written in the 1950s β and set in the 1860s β for an audience in 2018. Also, the ways in which Hamilton is not so revolutionary and the limits of colour-blind casting.
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