Watch out for . . .

BARTLETT SHER, who will bring his Lincoln Centre production of The King And I to the London Palladium for a 14 to 15-week run next June.

As I mentioned a few months back, it will star Kelli O’Hara and Ken Watanabe (left), who were superb when the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical played in New York two years ago.

The producer Howard Panter wants to take The King And I to Japan, Korea, Australia and elsewhere after its UK run.

Sher will direct a revival of My Fair Lady at the Lincoln Centre first, early next year.

And later he and dramatist J.T. Rogers plan to make a cinema version of their acclaimed play Oslo, which started at the National Theatre last month and is now playing at the Harold Pinter. The film plans explain why there won’t be an NT Live screening of Oslo.

SHEILA HANCOCK, (right) who will star in the stage version of Hal Ashby’s movie Harold And Maude, about a suicidal rich kid who hooks up with a septuagenarian sometime car thief. It worked on celluloid with Ruth Gordon as Maude and Bud Cort as Harold. I saw a musical version in New York, which was unspeakable. But I imagine a ‘straight’ version would work better, especially one featuring the quickwitted Ms Hancock. Previews begin at the Charing Cross Theatre on February 19.