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 ...

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2002-12-31 04:00:00 PDT New York-- In the 1961 film musical "Flower Drum Song," the Chinese picture bride Mei Li and her father get their first dazzling glimpse of San Francisco from the portal of a ...

Flower Drum Song, the 1961 big-screen adaptation of the musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, helped transform its young lead actress, Nancy Kwan, into a Hollywood star. But as she reveals in her new ...

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 ...

Which of The Monkees wrote Linda Ronstadt’s ‘Different Drum’? Michael Nesmith of The Monkees penned the song “Different Drum.” He took it to the producers of The Monkees’ sitcom, who felt it did not ...

Dave Grohl kicked off round two of his challenge with drumming wunderkind Nandi Bushell on Monday (Sept. 14) with a hard-rocking song written just for… By Glenn Rowley Dave Grohl kicked off round two ...