Before there was Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan or Gish Jen, there was C.Y. Lee and "The Flower Drum Song." Long thought of only as a stage and screen musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lee's tale of ...

2002-12-31 04:00:00 PDT New York-- In the 1961 film musical "Flower Drum Song," the Chinese picture bride Mei Li and her father get their first dazzling glimpse of San Francisco from the portal of a ...

Many older musicals go in for a refreshing facelift, but this version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Flower Drum Song," with a spankin' new book by David Henry Hwang, is a lot closer to wholesale ...

“Flower Drum Song” is generally regarded as one of musical-theater masters Rodgers and Hammerstein’s lesser efforts. And the 1958 original is seen by many as hopelessly outdated, corny at best and ...

A full-length book on the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Flower Drum Song must rank as an unexpected item. Of course, David H. Lewis' new Flower Drum Songs McFarland & Company, paperback would not ...

There’s an especially poignant moment during the curtain call of “Flower Drum Song,” now playing at Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto, when the actors announce where they were born. It’s eye-opening ...

KANNAPOLIS — Even though New Year’s was almost two months ago, there is still cause for celebration. The Chinese New Year was on Jan. 22, but it looks like there are some who are still getting into ...

In this new version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song, a young lady named Mei-li flees to America in the late 1950's when her father, a Chinese opera master, falls under persecution from ...