Flower Drum Song Musical Summary

Opened at the palace theatre london 24 march 1960 with yau shan tung tim herbert and kevin scott.

Flower drum song musical summary. Among them two the star is. But master wang will only allow a short period of time before he intervenes. Master wang is very impressed and asks mei li and her father to stay with him so he can present her to his son.

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. It is only known that they began in the 1960s. A musical play in two acts by oscar hammerstein ii and joseph fields based on the novel by c y.

1958 last update february 24th 2016. After their extraordinary early successes beginning with oklahoma. Flower drum song synopsis broadway musical chinese girl mei li actress of chinese opera runs from her native country after the death of her father who was in jail for failing to follow the communist ideas.

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. David henry hwang oscar hammerstein ii richard rodgers. Flower drum song is a 1961 american musical film directed by henry koster adapted from the 1958 broadway musical flower drum song written by the composer richard rodgers and the lyricist librettist oscar hammerstein ii in turn based on the 1957 novel of the same name by the chinese american author chin yang lee.

Once a week the theater turns into a nightclub where act the famous striptease dancer with her gay man companion designer. 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. After master wang looks her over she volunteers to sing a flower drum song.

Wang ta is. Over the course of the piece we see generations of asian americans grappling with their identity pulled between a desire to. She arrived in the united states and immediately goes to a small theater in chinatown where an old friend of her father works.