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Oct. 11 - Oct. 17, 2002

Making Musical History

All-New Flower Drum Song opens on the Great White Way

By Terry Hong
Special to AsianWeek

Ask any Asian Pacific American even vaguely familiar with musicals, and they’ll be able to sing along with “I enjoy being a girrrl,” recalling endless images of mirror-multiplied Nancy Kwans. As the first musical spectacular with a virtually all-Asian cast, Flower Drum Song by Rodgers & Hammerstein is ingrained in the APA entertainment canon — like it or not.

“It’s loomed so large over my life, and in the lives of other boomer Asian Americans all over the country,” says David Henry Hwang, award-winning playwright of FOB, M. Butterfly and Golden Child. “I remember being a kid and thinking it was so cool. I think it was the only time I saw Asian Americans acting like Americans.”

Hwang never stopped being captivated. Now more than four decades since its debut, Flower Drum Song finally returns to Broadway. The all-new Flower Drum Song, with a completely reconstructed story by Hwang built around Rodgers & Hammerstein’s original music, officially opens October 17, 2002, with what promises to be a star-studded gala of historical proportions...

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