“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 And the 1958 original is seen by many as hopelessly outdated, corny at best and ...

Which of The Monkees wrote Linda Ronstadt’s ‘Different Drum’? Michael Nesmith of The Monkees penned the song “Different Drum.” He took it to the producers of The Monkees’ sitcom, who felt it did not ...

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 ...

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 ...

If we want to make something new, we first have to love what is old." That line from David Henry Hwang's "revisal" of Flower Drum Song expresses the challenge facing the musical's characters, who ...

Arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown looks at a new makeover for a classic Broadway musical. "Flower Drum Song" began life as a novel, became a musical and a film, and is now back here on Broadway in a ...

Much of the fundamental charm, grace and novelty of Rodgers & Hammerstein's [1958 Broadway hit] Flower Drum Song has been overwhelmed by the sheer opulence and glamour with which Ross Hunter has ...