Flower Drum Song Musical

Approved 2h 13min comedy musical romance 28 march 1962 spain a young woman arrives in san francisco s chinatown from hong kong with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner unaware he is involved with one of his singers.

Flower drum song musical. I enjoy being a girl. Set in the late 1950s rodgers and hammerstein s flower drum song centers on naive immigrant mei li who arrives in san francisco s chinatown after fleeing communist china. The original broadway cast of flower drum song 1958 performing a hundred million miracles you are beautiful i enjoy being a girl love look away a.

Flower drum song that rarity among rodgers hammerstein musicals a moderate hit otherwise their shows were either smashes like south pacific or flops like me juliet also became a moderately successful film in late 1961 three years after its broadway opening. Flower drum song musical. Over the course of the piece we see generations of asian americans grappling with their identity pulled between a desire to.

You are beautiful ta and madam liang. It just barely ranked among the ten highest grossing movies of 1962. It was adapted for a 1961 musical film.

Last update february 24th 2016. The young refugee is befriended by wang who is struggling to keep the chinese opera theatrical tradition alive despite his son s determination to turn the family theatre into a rowdy nightclub. It was nominated for five academy awards and two golden globe awards including best.

Musicals f flower drum song musical 1958. Flower drum song was the eighth musical by the team of rodgers and hammerstein it is based on the 1957 novel the flower drum song by chinese american author c. In the second half of the 60s musical popularity has declined because this musical was weaker than the rest of the work rodgers hammerstein and racial tolerance in the united states increased in general.

The original broadway production of flower drum song opened on dec 1 1958. In 1943 richard rodgers and. The film stars nancy kwan james shigeta miyoshi umeki jack soo benson fong and juanita hall.