Flower Drum Song, 2002

The run closed March 16, 2003

Opened

October 17, 2002

Closed

March 16, 2003

Performances

169

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

August Wilson Theatre

Of the 397 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and carry a performance count, this is the 107th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Flower Drum Song 2 more that season

1958	St. James Theatre Original · Gene Kelly	600 perf.
1960	West End Transfer

Who was in it13 named

Jodi Long
Eric Chan
Ma Anne Dionisio
Emily Hsu
J Elaine Marcos
Lainie Sakakura
Yuka Takara
Kim Varhola

5 of these 13 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 8 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director

Robert Longbottom

Choreographer

Robert Longbottom

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Recordings 12 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Flower Drum Song, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

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…

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• Which of the 12 recordings of Flower Drum Song document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.