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 ...
There are at least three versions of the musical “Flower Drum Song” in the world, and the main thing they have in common are the songs of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical was ...
In early August of 1927, Alvin Pleasant Delaney Carter, his wife Sara and his sister-in-law Maybelle made the bumpy trip on rutted roads from their home in Maces Springs, Virginia to Bristol, ...
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 ...