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 ...

If we want to make something new, we first have to love what is old." That line from David Henry Hwang's "revisal" of Flower Drum Song expresses the challenge facing the musical's characters, who ...

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 ...

New Broadway cast DRG Records. $14.99 . Perhaps it's one of those "Hundred Million Miracles" that happen every day: Not one, but two new, original cast recordings of Richard Rodgers and Oscar ...

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 ...

It’s about a week before preview performances will begin, but David Henry Hwang is sitting in the dark in downtown’s Mark Taper Forum, scribbling yet another new line of dialogue on a yellow legal pad ...

“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 And the 1958 original is seen by many as hopelessly outdated, corny at best and ...

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 ...

Before there was Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan or Gish Jen, there was C.Y. Lee and "The Flower Drum Song." Long thought of only as a stage and screen musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lee's tale of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kwan writes that she hadn't heard of the stage musical until the producer of its film adaptation, Ross Hunter, asked her to star.