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Flower Drum Song is a 1961 American musical film directed by Henry Koster, adapted from the 1958 Broadway musical Flower Drum Song, written by the composer Richard Rodgers and the lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II, in turn based on the 1957 novel of the same name by the Chinese American author Chin Yang Lee.
Flower Drum Song was the eighth musical by the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein.It is based on the 1957 novel, The Flower Drum Song, by Chinese-American author C. Y. Lee.It premiered on Broadway in 1958 and was then performed in the West End and on tour.
In 1958, Blyden replaced Larry Storch as "Sammy Fong" in the out-of-town tryouts for the musical Flower Drum Song. He remained in the role during the show's original Broadway run for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. [9] The show was choreographed by his then-wife, Carol Haney. [10]
The Flower Drum Song is a novel by Chinese-American author C. Y. Lee, first published in 1957. The novel tells the story of Chinese immigrants in San Francisco , and was a bestseller in its time. It is the basis of 1958 musical Flower Drum Song , and later a movie of the same title was released in 1961, starring Nancy Kwan and James Shigeta .
Special guest: Sammy Davis, Jr. Jack opens his 13th season on television with this move to Tuesday nights, marking the first time in 28 years his program hasn't aired on a Sunday. Jack devotes his efforts to making sure the word gets out. His regulars Don Wilson, Dennis Day, and Rochester are on hand, and his "surprise guest" is Sammy Davis, Jr.
The season wraps with a production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s "Flower Drum Song" (May 28-June 21, 2026), featuring a newly updated book by David Henry Hwang.
Soo had been working in San Francisco at the Forbidden City, a Chinese nightclub and cabaret, where he was discovered by the actor and dancer Gene Kelly who was the director for Flower Drum Song. [2] Soo switched to the Sammy Fong role [6] (Chinatown's "Nathan Detroit") during the run and played the role when the film version (1961) of the ...
Larry Blyden – Flower Drum Song as Sammy Fong; Gwen Verdon – Redhead as Essie Whimple. Miyoshi Umeki – Flower Drum Song as Mei-Li; Best Performance by a Supporting or Featured Actor in a Play Best Performance by a Supporting or Featured Actress in a Play; Charlie Ruggles – The Pleasure of His Company as Mackenzie Savage