Flower drum song
By: music by Richard Rodgers ; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II ; book by David Hanry Hwang.
Contributors: Rodgers, Richard, 1902-; Lee, C. Y., 1917-
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 115
Subjects: Chinese American women -- Drama.; Women immigrants -- Drama.; Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Drama.; San Francisco (Calif.) -- Drama.
Genres: Drama.
Description: "To create something new, we must first love what is old." So says a character in David Henry Hwang's updated book to the 1958 Broadway musical Flower Drum Song by Richard Rogers, Oscar Hammerstein II and Joseph Fields. This new, fully revised Fower Drum Song includes David Henry Hwang's updated text; an introduction by Hwang and and afterword by Karen Wada, carefully documenting the long and vital history of this landmark musical. -- Back cover.
Notes: "Based on the original by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joseph Fields; based on the novel by C.Y. Lee."