Two award-winning musicals scheduled for downtown Peoria’s nonprofit Apollo Theater Feb. 18-19 were released just eight years apart, but their styles are as different as Broadway and Liverpool.

The Academy Award-winning 1956 musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein “The King and I” will show Friday, Feb. 18; the Oscar-nominated 1965 romp from the Beatles, “A Hard Day’s Night,” will show on Saturday, Feb. 19.

Starring Yul Brynner – who won the Best Actor Oscar for the role he performed on stage and screen some 4,000 times in his career – “The King and I” was based on Margaret Landon’s novel “Anna and the King of Siam.” Co-starring Deborah Kerr as an English governess hired to teach a king’s children, the movie also features Rita Moreno and one of the songwriting duo’s best scores, highlighted by “Hello Young Lovers” and “Getting to Know You.”

“A Hard Day’s Night, directed by Richard Lester, was the Beatles’ first film, a 1964 light adventure about the Fab Four at the height of Beatlemania. Shot as part documentary and part comedy, the 90-minute feature is credited as the first music video. Its memorable soundtrack features Beatles hits “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “Tell Me Why,” “If I Fell” and the title tune.

Show times at the Apollo are at 7:00 p.m. Donations are $5 and $4 for kids, students and seniors. For details call (309) 673-4343.