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Flower Drum Song, the Glossary

Flower Drum Song was the eighth musical by the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein.^[1]

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1958 musicals
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Musicals by Rodgers and Hammerstein
Musicals set in San Francisco

A Majority of One

A Majority of One is a play by Leonard Spigelgass.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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Agnes de Mille

Agnes George de Mille (September 18, 1905 – October 7, 1993) was an American dancer and choreographer.

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Ahmanson Theatre

The Ahmanson Theatre is one of the four main venues that compose the Los Angeles Music Center.

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Allegro is a musical by Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics), their third collaboration for the stage. Flower Drum Song and Allegro (musical) are Broadway musicals and musicals by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

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Alvin Ing

Alvin Y. F. Ing (May 26, 1932 – July 31, 2021) was an American singer and actor.

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August Wilson Theatre

The August Wilson Theatre (formerly the Guild Theatre, ANTA Theatre, and Virginia Theatre) is a Broadway theater at 245 West 52nd Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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B. J. Baker

Betty Jane Baker (née Phillips; May 6, 1927 – April 2, 2002) was a singer, songwriter and vocal contractor, who worked as a backup singer on recordings by Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, The Righteous Brothers and Sam Cooke, among others.

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Ben Brantley

Benjamin D. Brantley (born October 26, 1954) is an American theater critic, journalist, editor, publisher, and writer.

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Benson Fong

Benson Fong (October 10, 1916 – August 1, 1987) was an American character actor.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

Bloomsbury Publishing plc is a British worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction.

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Boch Center

The Boch Center (formerly Citi Performing Arts Center and Wang Center for the Performing Arts) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit performing arts organization located in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling Theatre as the proper noun in their names.

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Brooks Atkinson

Justin Brooks Atkinson (November 28, 1894 – January 14, 1984) was an American theatre critic.

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Carol Haney

Carol Haney (born Carolyn Haney; December 24, 1924 – May 10, 1964) was an American dancer and actress.

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Carousel (musical)

Carousel is the second musical by the team of Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics). Flower Drum Song and Carousel (musical) are Broadway musicals, musicals by Rodgers and Hammerstein and Tony Award-winning musicals.

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Cast recording

A cast recording is a recording of a stage musical that is intended to document the songs as they were performed in the show and experienced by the audience.

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CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.

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Charlie Chan

Charlie Chan is a fictional Honolulu police detective created by author Earl Derr Biggers for a series of mystery novels. Flower Drum Song and Charlie Chan are Asian-American issues.

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Chin Yang Lee

Chin Yang Lee (December 23, 1915 – November 8, 2018) was a Chinese American author best known for his 1957 novel The Flower Drum Song, which inspired the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Flower Drum Song and the eponymous 1961 film which was nominated for five Academy Awards.

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Chinatown, San Francisco

The Chinatown centered on Grant Avenue and Stockton Street in San Francisco, California, is the oldest Chinatown in North America and one of the largest Chinese enclaves outside Asia.

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Chinese Americans

Chinese Americans are Americans of Chinese ancestry.

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Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association

The Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (CCBA) is a historical Chinese association established in various parts of the United States and Canada with large Chinese communities.

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Chinese opera

Traditional Chinese opera, or Xiqu, is a form of musical theatre in China with roots going back to the early periods in China.

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Cinderella (Rodgers and Hammerstein musical)

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella is a musical written for television, but later played on stage, with music by Richard Rodgers and a book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Flower Drum Song and Cinderella (Rodgers and Hammerstein musical) are Broadway musicals, musicals based on novels and musicals by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

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Civil rights movement

The civil rights movement was a social movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country.

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Clive Barnes

Clive Alexander Barnes (13 May 1927 – 19 November 2008) was an English writer and critic.

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Curran Theatre

The Curran Theatre, located at 445 Geary Street between Taylor and Mason Streets in the Theatre District of San Francisco, California opened in February 1922, and was named after its first owner, Homer Curran.

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David Henry Hwang

David Henry Hwang (born August 11, 1957) is an American playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and theater professor at Columbia University in New York City.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Diahann Carroll

Diahann Carroll (born Carol Diann Johnson; July 17, 1935 – October 4, 2019) was an American actress, singer, model, and activist.

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Dinner theater

Dinner theater (sometimes called dinner and a show) is a form of entertainment that combines a restaurant meal with a staged play or musical.

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Don Sebesky

Donald John Sebesky (December 10, 1937 – April 29, 2023) was an American composer, arranger, conductor, and jazz trombonist.

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Ed Kenney

Edward Kamanaloha Kenney, Jr. (August 8, 1933 – October 5, 2018) was an American singer and actor from Hawaii best known for the role of "Wang Ta" in the original Broadway production of Flower Drum Song. In retirement, he lived on the island of Kaua‘i and occasionally made public appearances.

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Ethel Merman

Ethel Merman (born Ethel Agnes Zimmermann; January 16, 1908 – February 15, 1984) was an American actress and singer.

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Ezio Pinza

Ezio Fortunato Pinza (May 18, 1892May 9, 1957) was an Italian opera singer.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger Williams Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar.

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Fengyang Flower Drum

Fengyang Flower Drum is a traditional Chinese folk song, a form of Quyi, from Fengyang County, Anhui Province that was developed during the late Ming Dynasty.

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Flower Drum Song (film)

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.

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Forbidden City (nightclub)

Forbidden City was a Chinese nightclub and cabaret in San Francisco, which was in business from 1938 to 1970, and operated on the second floor of 363 Sutter Street, between Chinatown and Union Square.

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Geary Boulevard

Geary Boulevard (designated as Geary Street east of Van Ness Avenue) is a major east–west thoroughfare in San Francisco, California, United States, beginning downtown at Market Street near Market Street's intersection with Kearny Street, and running westbound through downtown, the Civic Center area, the Western Addition, and running for most of its length through the predominantly residential Richmond District.

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Gene Kelly

Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer.

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Gordon Davidson (director)

Gordon Davidson (May 7, 1933 – October 2, 2016) was an American stage and film director and the founding artistic director of Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles.

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Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album

The Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album has been awarded since 1959.

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Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.

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Gregg Barnes

Gregg Barnes is an American costume designer for stage and film.

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Hermes Pan

Hermes Pan (born Hermes Joseph Panagiotopoulos, December 10, 1909 – September 19, 1990) was an American dancer and choreographer, principally remembered as Fred Astaire's choreographic collaborator on the famous 1930s movie musicals starring Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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Hoon Lee

Tong Hoon Lee (born July 18, 1973) is an American stage, film and television actor, known for playing Job in the Cinemax original series Banshee and the King in the Broadway revival of The King and I, and voicing Hamato Yoshi/Splinter in the 2012 version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Shredder in Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

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I Enjoy Being a Girl

"I Enjoy Being a Girl" is a show tune from the 1958 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Flower Drum Song.

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Irene Sharaff

Irene Sharaff (January 23, 1910 – August 16, 1993) was an American costume designer for stage and screen.

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Jack Paar

Jack Harold Paar (May 1, 1918 – January 27, 2004) was an American talk show host, writer, radio and television comedian, and film actor.

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Jack Soo

Jack Soo (born Goro Suzuki, October 28, 1917 – January 11, 1979) was an American actor and singer.

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James Hammerstein

James Blanchard Hammerstein (March 23, 1931 – January 7, 1999) was an American theatre director and producer.

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James Shigeta

James Saburo Shigeta (繁田三郎; June 17, 1929 – July 28, 2014) was an American actor and singer of Japanese descent.

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Jodi Long

Jodi Long is an American actress.

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Jose Llana

Jose Llana (born 5 May 1976) is a Filipino-American singer and actor best known for originating roles in the Broadway musicals The King and I (1996), Flower Drum Song (2002), Here Lies Love (2023), and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (2005), the latter for which he won the 2005 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance.

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Joseph Fields

Joseph Albert Fields (February 21, 1895 – March 4, 1966)According to the State of California.

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Joshua Logan

Joshua Lockwood Logan III (October 5, 1908 – July 12, 1988) was an American theatre and film director, playwright and screenwriter, and actor.

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Juanita Hall

Juanita Hall (née Long, November 6, 1901 – February 29, 1968) was an American musical theatre and film actress.

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Kenneth Tynan

Kenneth Peacock Tynan (2 April 1927 – 26 July 1980) was an English theatre critic and writer.

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Keye Luke

Keye Luke (June 18, 1904 – January 12, 1991) was a Chinese-American film and television actor, technical advisor, artist, and a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild.

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Kongsi

Kongsi is a Hokkien transcription term meaning "company", especially businesses which have been incorporated.

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Larry Blyden

Ivan Lawrence Blieden (June 23, 1925 – June 6, 1975), known professionally as Larry Blyden, was an American actor, stage producer and director, and game show host.

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Larry Storch

Lawrence Samuel Storch (January 8, 1923 – July 8, 2022) was an American actor and comedian known for his comic television roles, including voice-over work for cartoon shows such as Mr.

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Law school

A law school (also known as a law centre/center, college of law, or faculty of law) is an institution, professional school, or department of a college or university specializing in legal education, usually involved as part of a process for becoming a judge, lawyer, or other legal professional within a given jurisdiction.

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Lea Salonga

Maria Lea Carmen Imutan Salonga, (born February 22, 1971) is a Filipino singer and actress.

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Leon Thau

Leon Thau (8 April 1926 in Palestine – 16 May 2010 in Dorset, United Kingdom) was a British actor, TV producer and director.

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Life with Father

Life with Father is a 1939 play by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, adapted from a humorous autobiographical book of stories compiled in 1935 by Clarence Day.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Marilyn Horne

Marilyn Berneice Horne (born January 16, 1934) is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer.

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Mark Taper Forum

The Mark Taper Forum is a 739-seat thrust stage at the Los Angeles Music Center designed by Welton Becket and Associates on the Bunker Hill section of Downtown Los Angeles.

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Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor and activist.

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Mary Rodgers

Mary Rodgers (January 11, 1931 – June 26, 2014) was an American composer, screenwriter, and author.

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Master of Fine Arts

A Master of Fine Arts (MFA or M.F.A.) is a terminal degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts and in some cases, theatre management or arts administration.

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Me and Juliet

Me and Juliet is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, and lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II. Flower Drum Song and me and Juliet are Broadway musicals and musicals by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

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Miyoshi Umeki

was a Japanese-American singer and actress.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.

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My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. Flower Drum Song and my Fair Lady are Broadway musicals and Tony Award-winning musicals.

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Nancy Kwan

Nancy Kwan Ka-shen (born May 19, 1939) is a Chinese-American actress.

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Natasha Katz

Natasha Katz is an American lighting designer for the theatre, dance, and opera.

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New York Daily Mirror

The New York Daily Mirror was an American morning tabloid newspaper first published on June 24, 1924, in New York City by the William Randolph Hearst organization as a contrast to their mainstream broadsheets, the Evening Journal and New York American, later consolidated into the New York Journal American.

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New York Daily News

The New York Daily News, officially titled the Daily News, is an American newspaper based in Jersey City, New Jersey.

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New York Journal-American

The New York Journal-American was a daily newspaper published in New York City from 1937 to 1966.

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New York Post

The New York Post (NY Post) is an American conservative daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City.

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Oakland Tribune

The Oakland Tribune was a daily newspaper published in Oakland, California, and a predecessor of the East Bay Times.

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Oklahoma!

Oklahoma! is the first musical written by the duo of Rodgers and Hammerstein. Flower Drum Song and Oklahoma! are Broadway musicals, musicals by Rodgers and Hammerstein and Tony Award-winning musicals.

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Oliver Smith (designer)

Oliver Smith (February 13, 1918 – January 23, 1994) was an American scenic designer and interior designer.

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Oscar Hammerstein II

Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II (July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American lyricist, librettist, theatrical producer, and (usually uncredited) director in musical theater for nearly 40 years.

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Palace Theatre, London

The Palace Theatre is a West End theatre in the City of Westminster in London.

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Pantoum

The pantoum is a poetic form derived from the pantun, a Malay verse form: specifically from the pantun berkait, a series of interwoven quatrains.

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Paper lantern

A paper lantern is a lantern made of thin, brightly colored paper.

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Pat Suzuki

Pat Suzuki (born Chiyoko Suzuki; September 22, 1930) is an American popular singer and actress, who is best known for her role in the original Broadway production of the musical Flower Drum Song, and her performance of the song "I Enjoy Being a Girl" in the show.

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Patrick Adiarte

Patrick Adiarte (born August 2, 1943) is a Filipino-born American theater, film and television actor and dancer, known for his portrayal of foreign or Asian characters in various roles in film and television.

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Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic

The Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic (PWC) was a hospital in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, which was founded by an endowment bestowed by Payne Whitney (March 20, 1876 – May 25, 1927) upon his death.

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Picture bride

The term picture bride refers to the practice in the early 20th century of immigrant workers (chiefly Japanese, Okinawan, and Korean) in Hawaii and the West Coast of the United States and Canada, as well as Brazil selecting brides from their native countries via a matchmaker, who paired bride and groom using only photographs and family recommendations of the possible candidates.

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Pipe Dream (musical)

Pipe Dream is the seventh musical by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II; it premiered on Broadway on November 30, 1955. Flower Drum Song and Pipe Dream (musical) are Broadway musicals, musicals based on novels and musicals by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

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Randall Duk Kim

Randall Duk Kim (born September 24, 1943) is an American actor.

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Rashomon (play)

Rashomon is the name of several different stage productions, all ultimately derived from works by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.

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Redhead (musical)

Redhead is a musical with music composed by Albert Hague and lyrics by Dorothy Fields, who with her brother, Herbert, along with Sidney Sheldon and David Shaw wrote the book/libretto. Flower Drum Song and Redhead (musical) are Broadway musicals and Tony Award-winning musicals.

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Regional theater in the United States

A regional theater or resident theater in the United States is a professional or semi-professional theater company that produces its own seasons.

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Reiko Sato

Reiko Sato (レイコ・佐藤; December 19, 1931 – May 28, 1981) was an American dancer and actress.

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Revival (theatre)

A revival is a restaging of a stage production after its original run has closed.

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Richard Rodgers

Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was an American composer who worked primarily in musical theater.

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Robert Longbottom

Robert Longbottom (born March 1957) is a New York City-based choreographer and director, primarily for theatre and opera.

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Robert Russell Bennett

Robert Russell Bennett (June 15, 1894 – August 18, 1981) was an American composer and arranger, best known for his orchestration of many well-known Broadway and Hollywood musicals by other composers such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers.

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Robin Wagner (designer)

Robin Samuel Anton Wagner (August 31, 1933 – May 29, 2023) was an American scenic designer.

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Rodgers and Hammerstein

Rodgers and Hammerstein was a theater-writing team of composer Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) and lyricist-dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960), who together created a series of innovative and influential American musicals.

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Royal Albert Hall

The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, England.

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Sadler's Wells Theatre

Sadler's Wells Theatre is a London performing arts venue, located in Rosebery Avenue, Islington.

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Salvatore Dell'Isola

Salvatore Dell'Isola (January 4, 1901 – March 13, 1989) was a conductor who acted as music director for several of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals on Broadway, among others.

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San Diego

San Diego is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast in Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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San Mateo, California

Saint Matthew is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States, on the San Francisco Peninsula.

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Sayonara

Sayonara is a 1957 American romantic drama film directed by Joshua Logan, and starring Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, James Garner, Martha Scott, Miyoshi Umeki, Red Buttons, Miiko Taka and Ricardo Montalbán.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.

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Show Boat

Show Boat is a musical with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Flower Drum Song and Show Boat are Broadway musicals, musicals based on novels and Tony Award-winning musicals.

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South Pacific (1958 film)

South Pacific is a 1958 American romantic musical film based on the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, which in turn is loosely based on James A. Michener's 1947 short-story collection Tales of the South Pacific.

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South Pacific (musical)

South Pacific is a musical composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. Flower Drum Song and South Pacific (musical) are Broadway musicals, musicals by Rodgers and Hammerstein and Tony Award-winning musicals.

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Spoonerism

A spoonerism is an occurrence of speech in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched (see metathesis) between two words of a phrase.

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St. James Theatre

The St.

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The Ed Sullivan Show

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American television variety show that ran on CBS from June 20, 1948, to March 28, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan.

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The Flower Drum Song

The Flower Drum Song is a novel by Chinese-American author C. Y. Lee, first published in 1957.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.

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The Muny

The St.

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The Music Man

The Music Man is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson, based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey. Flower Drum Song and The Music Man are Broadway musicals and Tony Award-winning musicals.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Pajama Game

The Pajama Game is a musical based on the 1953 novel 7½ Cents by Richard Bissell. Flower Drum Song and the Pajama Game are Broadway musicals, musicals based on novels and Tony Award-winning musicals.

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The Sound and the Fury (1959 film)

The Sound and the Fury is a 1959 American drama film directed by Martin Ritt.

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The Sound of Music

The Sound of Music is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Flower Drum Song and The Sound of Music are Broadway musicals, musicals by Rodgers and Hammerstein and Tony Award-winning musicals.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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The World of Suzie Wong

The World of Suzie Wong is a 1957 novel by British writer Richard Mason.

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The World of Suzie Wong (film)

The World of Suzie Wong is a 1960 British-American romantic drama film directed by Richard Quine and starring William Holden and Nancy Kwan.

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The World of Suzie Wong (play)

The World of Suzie Wong is a 1958-premiered stage play, adapted from the eponymous 1957 novel by Richard Mason, The World of Suzie Wong.

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Theatre Communications Group

Theatre Communications Group (TCG) is a non-profit service organization headquartered in New York City that promotes professional non-profit theatre in the United States.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Tonight Starring Jack Paar

Tonight Starring Jack Paar (in later seasons The Jack Paar Tonight Show) is an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under the Tonight Show franchise from 1957 to 1962.

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Tonkin

Tonkin, also spelled Tongkin, Tonquin or Tongking, is an exonym referring to the northern region of Vietnam.

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Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical

The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical is an honor presented at the Tony Awards, a ceremony established in 1947 as the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, to actors for quality leading roles in a musical play, whether a new production or a revival.

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Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical

The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical is an honor presented at the Tony Awards, a ceremony established in 1947 as the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, to actresses for quality leading roles in a musical play, whether a new production or a revival.

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Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical

The Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical is awarded to librettists of the spoken, non-sung dialogue, and storyline of a musical play.

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Tony Award for Best Choreography

The Tony Award for Best Choreography is awarded to acknowledge the contributions of choreographers in both musicals and plays.

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Tony Award for Best Conductor and Musical Director

The Tony Award for Best Conductor and Musical Director was awarded to acknowledge the contributions of conductors and musical directors in both musicals and operas.

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Tony Award for Best Costume Design

These are the winners and nominees for the Tony Award for Best Costume Design.

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Tony Award for Best Musical

The Tony Award for Best Musical is given annually to the best new Broadway musical, as determined by Tony Award voters.

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Tony Awards

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre.

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Tzi Ma

Tzi Ma (born June 10, 1962) is a Hong Kong-American actor.

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USA Today

USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Victor Sen Yung

Victor Sen Young (born Victor Cheung Young or Sen Yew Cheung; October 18, 1915 – body discovered November 9, 1980) was an American character actor, best known for playing Jimmy Chan in the Charlie Chan films and Hop Sing in the western series Bonanza.

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Ward Morehouse

Ward Morehouse (November 24, 1895 – December 7, 1966) was an American theater critic, newspaper columnist, playwright, and author.

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West End of London

The West End of London (commonly referred to as the West End) is a district of Central London, London, England, west of the City of London and north of the River Thames, in which many of the city's major tourist attractions, shops, businesses, government buildings and entertainment venues, including West End theatres, are concentrated.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_Drum_Song

Also known as Chop Suey (Rodgers and Hammerstein song), Flower Drum Song (musical), Flower Drum Song (play), The Flower Drum Song (musical), The Flower Drum Song (play).

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