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Posted by Howard Brazee on 07/04/06 19:02
>> Why has the musical _Flower Drum Song_ mostly disappeared? Because
>> it isn't about white folk?
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>I suppose you know "Flower Drum Song" was revived and revised for Broadway
>in 2002, with a new book by David Henry Hwang, and some changes to the
>lyrics and numbers. It ran for 169 performances compared to the 600
>performance-run of the original production.
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>I find it more than interesting that one of the more positive user comments
>was by the son of Dong Kingman, the artist who created the beautiful opening
>and closing title paintings for the film.
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>The son wrote in part: "In many ways a beautiful film, and a case can be
>made, a pioneering one. Okay so it is a bit corny, a few young members of
>audience uneasily snickered at the stereotypes, scenes could have been cut,
>especially one fantasy sequence. Yet the Flower Drum Song endures and to
>enjoy."
It deserves to be seen far more than it does. Do you know how they
did the B&W TV number in the original and the revised Broadway run?
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