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Flower Drum Song is a 1961 American musical film directed by Henry Koster, adapted from the 1958 Broadway musical Flower Drum Song, written by the composer Richard Rodgers and the lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II, in turn based on the 1957 novel of the same name by the Chinese American author Chin Yang Lee.
Flower Drum Song was the eighth musical by the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein. It is based on the 1957 novel, The Flower Drum Song, by Chinese-American author C. Y. Lee. It premiered on Broadway in 1958 and was then performed in the West End and on tour. It was adapted for a 1961 musical film.
The Flower Drum Song is a novel by Chinese-American author C. Y. Lee, first published in 1957. The novel tells the story of Chinese immigrants in San Francisco, and was a bestseller in its time. It is the basis of 1958 musical Flower Drum Song, and later a movie of the same title was released in 1961, starring Nancy Kwan and James Shigeta.
The Flower Drum Song, a 1957 novel by C. Y. Lee, adapted into the musical "Flower Drum Song" (album), a 1959 album by The Mastersounds, interpretations of the songs from the stage musical; Flower Drum Song, a 1961 musical film based on the stage musical; Fengyang Flower Drum, a Chinese folk song; Flower-drum opera or Huaguxi, a form of Chinese ...
Juanita Hall (née Long, November 6, 1901 – February 29, 1968) [1] was an American musical theatre and film actress. She is remembered for her roles in the original stage and screen versions of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals South Pacific as Bloody Mary – a role that garnered her the Tony Award – and Flower Drum Song as Madame Liang.
The season wraps with a production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s "Flower Drum Song" (May 28-June 21, 2026), featuring a newly updated book by David Henry Hwang.
Alvin Ing, a pioneering Asian American Broadway actor who appeared in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Flower Drum Song” and Stephen Sondheim’s “Pacific Overtures,” died at Providence Saint ...
Pat Suzuki (born Chiyoko Suzuki; September 22, 1930) [1] is an American popular singer and actress, who is best known for her role in the original Broadway production of the musical Flower Drum Song, and her performance of the song "I Enjoy Being a Girl" in the show.