[UPDATE: Dallas Summer Musicals has responded to the casting outcry. See below.]
Yet another theater production is accused of rocking the yellowface. Dallas Summer Musicals' upcoming production of The King and I is drawing criticism for casting a Caucasian actor in the role of King Mongkut.
Dallas Summer Musicals' THE KING AND I Casting Causes Controversy
Rodgers and Hammerstein's popular musical tells the story of Anna Leonowens, a British schoolteacher who is hired as a live-in governess to the children of King Mongkut of Siam in the early 1860s. Despite their many differences, Anna and the King eventually grow to understand and respect one another.
In case you were wondering, the king of Siam was not a white guy.
