Photo Flash: A New King in Town- First Look at Jose Llana in THE KING AND I!

Jose Llana just stepped into the role of the King of Siam in Lincoln Center Theater's Tony Award-winning production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's The King and I, directed by Bartlett Sher, at the Vivian Beaumont Theater (150 West 65 Street). BroadwayWorld brings you a first look at Llana in action below!

Llana, who most recently starred as President Marcos in the long-running hit musical Here Lies Love at the Public Theater, will join Kelli O'Hara for a strictly limited 11-week engagement through Sunday, September 27.

Llana's previous Broadway credits include Wonderland, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Drama Desk Award), Flower Drum Song, Rent, Streetcorner Symphony, and the 1996 production ofThe King and I, in which he performed the role of Lun Tha. His other off-Broadway credits include Saturn Returns (Public Theater), On The Town (Shakespeare in the Park), and Falling For Eve (York Theatre). He appeared in the national tour of the musical Martin Guerre and in regional theater in The Ballad of Little Joe at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre(Jefferson Award nomination), Myths and Hymns and Candide (Ethel Barrymore Award nomination) at Philadelphia'sPrince Music Theater, and as Bill Sykes in Oliver! at the Papermill Playhouse. His film and television credits include Hitch and "Sex and the City."

Photo Credit: Paul Kolnik