2002-12-31 04:00:00 PDT New York-- In the 1961 film musical "Flower Drum Song," the Chinese picture bride Mei Li and her father get their first dazzling glimpse of San Francisco from the portal of a ...

Many older musicals go in for a refreshing facelift, but this version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Flower Drum Song," with a spankin' new book by David Henry Hwang, is a lot closer to wholesale ...

There are at least three versions of the musical “Flower Drum Song” in the world, and the main thing they have in common are the songs of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical was ...

“Flower Drum Song” is generally regarded as one of musical-theater masters Rodgers and Hammerstein’s lesser efforts. And the 1958 original is seen by many as hopelessly outdated, corny at best and ...

A full-length book on the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Flower Drum Song must rank as an unexpected item. Of course, David H. Lewis' new Flower Drum Songs McFarland & Company, paperback would not ...

There’s an especially poignant moment during the curtain call of “Flower Drum Song,” now playing at Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto, when the actors announce where they were born. It’s eye-opening ...

TanChun is a traveling film director and screenwriter who believes in positive Asian representation in Hollywood. She aspires to create more stories in Western media that give Asian actors a chance to ...

C.Y. Lee, a Chinese-born author whose best-selling 1957 novel “The Flower Drum Song” explored conflict among first- and second-generation immigrants in San Francisco’s Chinatown, provided the source ...

101 Wagon Driver's Serenade / Woodblock,Gong,Sheng (Musical instrument),San xian,Flute 102 Swallow / Woodblock,Gong,Sheng (Musical instrument),San xian,Flute 103 Flower Drum Song / ...

In this new version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song, a young lady named Mei-li flees to America in the late 1950's when her father, a Chinese opera master, falls under persecution from ...

Arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown looks at a new makeover for a classic Broadway musical. "Flower Drum Song" began life as a novel, became a musical and a film, and is now back here on Broadway in a ...