The three deleted numbers from this film.

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Songs, scenes, interludes of all kinds are often "deleted" from film versions because often the reason for their presence is no longer valid. Film's ability to telescope time amnost without limit precludes the need for a song to allow for the complete change of a set behind an Act Curtain in the theatre, for example, which the distraction of a song was meant to cover.

Songs are added and cut from Broadway shows on out-of-town tryouts all the time, for the sake of the show - sometimes just to keep the running time short enough to allow the audiences to catch their late trains back to Connecticut - or so it was in the heyday of the great Broadway musical...so why are we denying the fimmaker the same flxebilty to trim or re-arrange the film adaptation for the best effect? A film is NOT a carbon copy of what was done on stage, it has a life and an artistic rationale of its own.

"Principles only mean something if you stick to them when they're INconvenient"

"Shall I Tell You What I Think Of You" was the only number actually filmed. The song "I Have Dreamed" must have been cut fairly early after the production of the film began. Only Lun Tha's VOCAL was recorded, at the same time all the vocal tracks were. They were [generally] recorded to a very soft piano in the background, most likely weeks or months before filming began. The orchestra was recorded separately at a later time, and then dubbed in. Sometime during or before recording the underscore for "I Have Dreamed", the decision was made to cut the song from the film, and so it was never scored or recorded. However, the orchestra did record this number later on for the Capitol soundtrack Lp, at the time they recorded the lavish and overly-long Overture on that record. That would also be when they recorded various introductions and endings for songs that didn't already have such in the film's version, such as the choral second half of "I Whistle A Happy Tune" that does not appear in the film. The written orchestrations for "I Have Dreamed" don't exist in Fox's archives with the rest of the film's score, and the orchestra used the existing Broadway scoring instead for the Lp. I believe this was also done for the 1992 studio recording with Julie Andrews, as that recording was based on the 1956 film.

On the soundtrack album, this exchange is called "Anna and the King"


King: A woman is a female who is human

Designed for pleasing man the human male

The human male is pleased by many women

And all the rest you hear is fairy tale

Anna: SO tell me how this fairy tale began sir

You cannot call it just a poets trick

Explain to me why many men are faithful and true to one wife only?

King: They are sick

A woman must be like a blossom

With honey for just one man

A man must be like honey bee and gather all he can

To fly from blossom to blossom, the honey bee must be free\

But blossom must not ever fly from bee to bee to bee!