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 ...
The splendid Rodgers &Hammerstein musical “Flower Drum Song” was based on Chinese-American author Chin Yang Lee’s 1957 contemporary Asian-American novel “The Flower Drum Song.” The Hawaii Children’s ...
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 ...
When the hit “Flower Drum Song” first opened on Broadway in 1958, it was greeted both warmly and frostily by the Asian-American community. Warmly, because the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical offered ...