Shows · Flower Drum Song · Virginia Theatre, 2002
Flower Drum Song, 2002
Of the productions that opened in the 2000s, this had the 107th longest run.
Other stagings of Flower Drum Song 2 more
Who was in it13 named
Jodi Long
Eric Chan
Ma Anne Dionisio
Emily Hsu
J Elaine Marcos
Lainie Sakakura
Yuka Takara
Kim Varhola
Creative team
- Director
- Robert Longbottom
- Choreographer
- Robert Longbottom
Recordings 2 released while this run was on
10 more exist for other runs of this show: see Flower Drum Song for all of them.
Around this production
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. Y. Lee. It premiered on Broadway in 1958 and was then performed in the West End and on tour. It was adapted for a 1961 musical film. After their extraordinary early successes, beginning with Oklahoma! in 1943, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II had written two musicals in the 1950s that did not do well and sought a new hit to revive their fortunes. Lee's novel focuses on a father, Wang Chi-yang, a wealthy refugee from China, who clings to traditional values in San Francisco's Chinatown. Rodgers and Hammerstein shifted the foc…
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