Flower Drum Songs: The Story of Two Musicals

by David H. Lewis

The return to New York in 2002 of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song--with a totally new book by playwright David Henry Hwang--was considered the most revolutionary chapter in the history of Broadway revivals. Why? The musical, a clear hit when it was originally produced in 1958, had later acquired a debatable reputation for quaint, racially offensive Asian stereotypes. Yet Hwang's controversial rewrite--driven at least in part...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786422467
• ISBN13: 9780786422463
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher