Productions3 on Broadway
| 1958 | St. James Theatre Original. December 1, 1958 · Gene Kelly | 600 performances |
| 1960 | Palace Theatre Transfer. March 24, 1960 | |
| 2002 | Virginia Theatre Revival. October 17, 2002 · Robert Longbottom | 169 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Licensing 4 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals R&H Theatricals | available |
| US | Concord Theatricals R&H Theatricals | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals R&H Theatricals | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals R&H Theatricals | available |
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In the literature47 passages
Like The King and I and Flower Drum Song, the musical seemed to shortchange its major character. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p842
When Merrick’s production of The World of Suzi Wong and the RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN musical Flower Drum Song were both about to open in 1958, Merrick sent Asian-Americans to picket the Flower Drum Song box office with signs proclaiming Wong as “the only authentic Chinese show.” Richard Rodgers was not amused. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p535
Fields’s third child was playwright Joseph Fields, best remembered for teaming with Jerome Chodorov on a series of plays and the librettos to Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Wonderful Town, and Flower Drum Song. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p81
The world of woozy song” was how critic Kenneth Tynan summed up Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Flower Drum Song. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p234
even Flower Drum Song) included a lengthy ballet, usually psychological in nature and always heavily metaphoric. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p242
In the ‘90s the Dodgers produced a series of revivals that included Guys and Dolls, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Once Upon a Mattress (1997), starring a vocally undercast Sarah Jessica Parker, and How to Succeed starring her husband, Matthew Broderick. Other revivals of the ‘90s included Fiddler on t… book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p263
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