Arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown looks at a new makeover for a classic Broadway musical. "Flower Drum Song" began life as a novel, became a musical and a film, and is now back here on Broadway in a ...

If we want to make something new, we first have to love what is old." That line from David Henry Hwang's "revisal" of Flower Drum Song expresses the challenge facing the musical's characters, who ...

A full-length book on the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Flower Drum Song must rank as an unexpected item. Of course, David H. Lewis' new Flower Drum Songs McFarland & Company, paperback would not ...

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NEW YORK — C.Y. Lee, whose novel “The Flower Drum Song,” set in San Francisco’s Chinatown, became a best seller and the basis for a popular stage musical and Oscar-nominated film despite mixed ...