Actor moves from Hawaii to Broadway

Broadway’s next king has been awfully busy chasing bad guys on the streets of Honolulu.

Daniel Dae Kim, who plays a detective on the TV series Hawaii Five-0, takes over in May as the King of Siam in the Lincoln Center Theater revival of The King and I, a role he calls “maybe the greatest role for an Asian male in theatre.” Kim, who graduated from New York University with a master’s degree in acting and cut his teeth in off-Broadway shows, said he’s been “looking for a way to get back” to the New York stage.

The king will be his Broadway debut, but he played the same monarch at Royal Albert Hall in 2009.