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 ...

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 ...

Flower Drum Song pulls back the curtain on themes of assimilation and tradition in 1960’s San Francisco Chinatown as Mei-li, a young Chinese opera artist fleeing communism, arrives in America, where ...

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 And the 1958 original is seen by many as hopelessly outdated, corny at best and ...

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 ...

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"A hundred million miracles are happening every day." Only composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein could express that sentiment -- the signature theme of Flower Drum Song-- so ...

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 ...

Miyoshi Umeki, a Japanese-born singer and actress who became the first Asian performer to win an Academy Award, for “Sayonara” (1957), distinguished herself onstage in “Flower Drum Song” and played a ...

Kwan writes that she hadn't heard of the stage musical until the producer of its film adaptation, Ross Hunter, asked her to star. The Svengali behind lavish, hit productions like Pillow Talk and ...