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- PEOPLE, Page 65Yes, His Majesty the King
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- By Emily Mitchell/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- Ten years ago, RUDOLF NUREYEV turned down the role of
- Siam's haughty lord and master when it was first offered to him.
- "I thought it would interfere with my dancing," he says. "Now
- the time is propitious." Last week the dancer, 51, was
- rehearsing The King and I for his theatrical debut later this
- month in Toronto, before a tour of U.S. and Canadian cities.
- When he swirls off with the leading lady in Shall We Dance?,
- he'll be performing steps he learned as a boy in the Soviet
- Union. "No, I haven't forgotten how to polka," he says. "But I
- have to make sure that I'm not too good."
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