Flower Drum Song by Richard Rodgers

Flower Drum Song by Richard Rodgers

"A funny and clever radical revision of the 1958 Broadway hit."--Time magazine

"An artistic success, revealing a revitalized score and a dramatic complexion that's far richer than the original."--Variety

"One of the Year's 10 Best."--Los Angeles Times

One of Rodgers and Hammerstein's most compelling love stories is re-made enchantingly in a new adaptation by the renowned Asian-American playwright, David Henry Hwang. This new version was a runaway hit last year in Los Angeles and now is playing on Broadway. Set in San Francisco's Chinatown in the late fifties, this is a funny and moving story which explores what it means to be an American and touches the history of every person whose forebearers once arrived as a stranger to these shores. The book also includes an essay by cultural critic Karen Wada on the history of Flower Drum Song and its relationship to the Asian-American community.

Richard Rogers is a professor of new media and digital culture at the University of Amsterdam, as well as the director of the Digital Methodologies Project, which develops social media research tools. Rogers is the author of Information Politics on the Web, Digital Methods, and Doing Digital Methods, among other books.