Shows · Flower Drum Song (2002 Revival)
Flower Drum Song (2002 Revival)
Opened 2002
169 performances
Revival, Modern
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In San Francisco's Chinatown, a Chinese opera star arrives from Hong Kong seeking a new life and must navigate the clash between traditional Chinese culture and modern American ways. She becomes entangled in a love quadrangle involving a nightclub owner, his assimilated Chinese-American girlfriend, and a fresh-off-the-boat immigrant, as all struggle with questions of identity and belonging.
- Music
- Richard Rodgers
- Lyrics
- Oscar Hammerstein II
- Book
- David Henry Hwang
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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