Flower Drum Song Musical. Oscar hammerstein ii / richard rodgers. The broadway cast album features the routine orchestrations of robert russell bennet.

The only rodgers and hammerstein works to be produced by universal, flower drum song was also one of their few musicals to be a commercial disappointment. Currently, the film industry’s defense of “whitewashing” — a term that. The musical film was adapted from the broadway musical of the same name that released in 1958, which in turn was originally based on the 1957 novel of the same name by chinese american author chin yang lee.

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Information about rodgers and hammerstein's broadway musical, flower drum song, including news and gossip, production information, synopsis, musical numbers, sheetmusic, cds, videos, books, sound and video clips, tickets, lyrics, rights holders, the offical website and more. She arrived in the united states, and immediately goes to a small theater in chinatown, where an old friend of her father works. 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.the film stars nancy kwan, james shigeta, miyoshi umeki, jack soo, benson fong. It has received poor reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an imdb score of 7.0.