What do Daniel Dae Kim, Jason Scott Lee and Richard Chamberlain have in common? Besides Island residency, the three actors have a link to Rodgers & Hammerstein's "The King & I."

Kim, who played Jin on ABC's Hawai'i-filmed "Lost" series, will be the latest to portray the King of Siam in a London revival of the star-marking role for Yul Brynner, which opens June 12 for a limited 20-performance run through June 28 at Royal Albert Hall.

The king's role is notable for two big numbers, "A Puzzlement" and "Shall We Dance," the latter with a the English schoolteacher Anna, to be played by Maria Friedman. The revival will be presented in the round, in the same West End theater where local-boy Lee recreated the role in 2000. Chamberlain portrayed the king in a Hawaii Opera Theatre staging in 2007. ...

PERSONALITIES: Island model Tori Praver will be featured in the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition, due out Feb. 15. The Maui-raised Praver is one of three models chosen for the prime issue. Discovered by a Hawaiian modeling agency at 12, the surfer girl turned model at 17, became the youngest face on a Guess cover, has been a cover girl for Glamour and Cosmopolitan and graced Sports Illustrated pages in 2007 and 2008. Her boyfriend is pro surfer and Ford model Danny Fuller. ...

Keith Haugen has been handing out tickets to his free "Peace on Earth" concert at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Mission Memorial Auditorium near Honolulu Hale. A ticket isn't required; the idea is to pass it along to promote the show. ...

BORN ULTIMATUM: More than 700 attended the recent centennial dinner at the Hawai'i Convention Center, marking 100 years of pediatric excellence at Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women & Children and its predecessor, Kauikeolani Children's Hospital. When event co-chair Michael O'Malley asked for a hand count on who "was born at, had a child born at, or knows someone who was born at" Kapi'olani, nearly every hand in the house was proudly aloft. Congressman Neil Abercrombie read a letter from President Obama, who set the record straight about his origins: "Kapi'olani is the place of my birth." ...

Henry Kapono, whose twin toddlers were born at Kapi'olani, did a short set, with 30 current and former Kapi'olani patient keiki joining him on stage for "Friends." They all had shirts emblazoned with the condition for which they were admitted to the hospital, prompting City Mill's Steven Ai, dinner co-chair, to disclose his premature Kapi'olani birth, removing his dinner jacket to unveil a T-shirt, which read, "2 POUNDS." ...

ONSTAGE: Gabby (Gabrielle) Chock, an 11-year-old student of Pam Taylor-Tongg at Ballet Hawaii for the past six years, finished second at the Youth American Grand Prix Ballet Competition in Los Angeles. Gabby, the daughter of Derrick and Gwen Chock of Kaimuki, heads to the internationals in April in New York City. Yes, she was in the holiday "Nutcracker" spectacle. ...

Veteran director Ron Bright is mounting a children's musical, "The Wind in the Willows," for a Saturday lift-off at Paliku Theatre and has cast local singer-actress Kim Anderson in the lead. Call 235-7433. ...

And Miko McDonnell, last seen as a Marine in Paliku Theatre's Bright-directed "Miss Saigon," will play the rat in "Willows." He was excused from rehearsals to take on a speaking part opposite Evangeline Lilly in "Lost,"which enabled him to have his own trailer for a day. He is the brother of radio personality Maleko. ...

DATELINE D.C.: Calling the Obama inauguration "the most challenging and stressful assignment of my career," KITV4 morning anchor Mahealani Richardson said — the chaos, confusion and crowds notwithstanding — "I would do it again." Hanging with Barack Obama's Punahou School classmates Boy Aldredge and Alan Lum and his fifth-grade teacher Pal Aldredge helped them bypass barriers and throngs. ...

She had a couple of sight 'ems, too: Fox News' Geraldo Rivera, CNN's Anderson Cooper ("just as striking in real life as he is on TV") and ex-NBC anchor Stone Phillips. ...

And that's Show Biz. ....

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