itself caught up in its own quest to update the works of two musical theatre giants and keep their names blazing on theatre marquees. This well-illustrated story of the two Flower Drum Songs is ...

As this is a romantic musical, you know from the beginning ... and misunderstandings prolong the inevitable conclusion, Flower Drum Song is a very enjoyable and often funny ride.

Hammerstein and his friends can't do it again: Flower Drum Song is already sold out solid ... he is writing almost exactly the same sort of music today as he was fifteen years ago.

In this new version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song, a young lady named Mei-li flees to America in the late 1950's when her father, a Chinese opera master, falls under persecution ...