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Show tazc-A. J Patricia Morision . . . will star in U. Summer Festival production of "The King and I" July 2-7. i Summer Theater To Feature Broadway Star Patricia Morison beautiful Broadway and Hollywood musical comedy star, will return to the University of Utah Summer Fer-tival Fer-tival to star in "The King and I" on July 2 through 7. Marked by one of the longest Broadway runs in history, the Rodgers and Hammerstein show tells the story of an English school teacher who agrees to tutor the wives and children of the King of Siam in the 1860s. Miss Morison inherited the role of Mrs. Anna from the late Gertrude Ger-trude Lawrence and added its success to her own triumph in "Kiss Me, Kate," in which she starred at the ' "U" in 1952. Her co-stars will be Jose Duval as the King and Dorothy Samoff as Lady Thiang. Among the show's most "whistle-able" tunes are "Hello, Young Lovers," "Getting to Know You," "Whistle a Happy Tune," ''Is a Puzzlement" and "Shall We Dance?" Another highlight is the ballett sequence based on "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and' done in classic Siamese Sia-mese style by the University Ballet Bal-let Theatre company. |