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1990 Time Magazine Compact Almanac, The (1991)(Time).iso
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PEOPLE, Page 65Yes, His Majesty the KingBy Emily Mitchell/Reported by Wendy Cole
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."