Flower Drum Song Musical

The movie has been adapted from the 1958 broadway musical flower drum song, that was written by the music composer richard rodgers.

Flower drum song musical. Because the song became so popular, it evolved throughout modern history and now includes dances and other forms of theatrical performance. The young refugee is befriended by wang, who is struggling to keep the chinese opera theatrical tradition alive, despite his son's determination to turn the family theatre into a rowdy nightclub. 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.

The broadway cast album features the routine orchestrations of robert russell bennet. Flower drum song is an comedy, music, romance movie that was released in 1961 and has a run time of 2 hr 11 min. Flower drum song is a 1961 american musical movie, directed by henry koster.

When it comes to broadway musicals, i hardly ever prefer a movie soundtrack to the orginal cast album, but flower drum song is one of the exceptions. After their extraordinary early successes, beginning with oklahoma! James theatre, new york, 1 december 1958 with miyoshi umeki (mei li), larry blyden (sammy fong) and ed kenney (wang ta).

Flower drum song, that rarity among rodgers & hammerstein musicals, a moderate hit (otherwise, their shows were either smashes like south pacific or flops like me & juliet), also became a moderately successful film in late 1961, three years after its broadway opening; Flower drum song (1961) full cast & crew. Complete soundtrack list, synopsys, video, plot review, cast for flower drum song show.

It has received poor reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an imdb score of 7.0. Directed by (1) writing credits (4) cast (78) produced by (2) music by (1) cinematography by (1) film editing by (1) art direction by (2) set decoration by (1) costume design by (1) makeup department (2) production management (2) The vital diffence is in the orchestrations and musical leadership.

Flower drum song awards and nominations. A sign announcing the musical flower drum song is seen above the virginia theatre on march 10, 2003 in new york city. A young woman arrives in san francisco's chinatown from hong kong with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner, unaware he is involved with one of his singers.