Flower Drum Song

Playwright David Henry Hwang reworked the problem child in the Rodgers & Hammerstein canon and made its story of Asian-Americans in San Francisco palatable to a modern audience. Better than that, Robert Longbottom's slick, clever production made it look like a neglected classic.

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