Show History
When James Michener wrote "Tales of the South Pacific," the American public began to realize there was something fresh in the people and their lives beyond the Pacific. The people in the
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"It was our lucky hit," said Oscar Hammerstein II in regards to FLOWER DRUM SONG, his ninth collaboration with Richard Rodgers. "Luck" was putting it mildly: even Hammerstein probably
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Articles & Interviews
1/1/2003 Volume 10, Issue 2, Winter
FLOWER DRUM SONG COMES BACK TO BROADWAY""FLOWER DRUM SONG comes roaring back as if it were brand new,"" cheered Richard Zoglin in Time Magazine.
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1/1/2002 Volume 9, Issue 2, Winter
FLOWER DRUM SONG BLOOMS AGAINPlaywright, librettist, screenwriter David Henry Hwang on Flower Drum Song: ""It's really part of the fabric of having grown up as an Asian American baby boomer,"" he told the Los Angeles Times.
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Critic Quotes
"Musically fabulous...FLOWER DRUM SONG is rich Rodgers & Hammerstein, dealing with the subject they do best: cultures at odds."
The New York Times, 2001
"Another notable work by the outstanding craftsmen of our musical theatre...a lovely show, an outstanding one in theme and treatment."
New York Daily Mirror, 1958
"Another notable work by the outstanding craftsmen of our musical theatre...a lovely show, an outstanding one in theme and treatment."
New York Daily Mirror, 1958
"FLOWER DRUM SONG continues to live and breathe, and sing, as joyously as it did three and a half decades in the past...Revolutionary for its time, it continues to be so in ours."
Inside Asian America, 1996
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