Flower Drum Song [Original Broadway Cast Recording]

by Flower Drum Song / O.C.R.

Overview

Rodgers and Hammerstein return to a theme that had served them well in both The King and I and South Pacific: misunderstanding and reconciliation between individuals of differing cultural backgrounds. This 1958 musical revolved around the meeting of old and new worlds in San Francisco's Chinatown. Flower Drum Song has a serviceable score but is not the team's most exciting. The novelty "I Enjoy Being a Girl" is more often excerpted than the lovely and overlooked "Love Look Away." The London cast opened in 1960 and ran for less than 500 performances, but was still a moderate hit and was well-received. A nice recording of a fine score. ~ Marjorie Ellen Ruhlmann and Sarah Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	05/18/1999
Label:	Columbia
UPC:	0074646095829
Rank:	88274

Tracks

1. Flower Drum Song, musical~Act 1. Overture
2. Flower Drum Song, musical~Act 1. You Are Beautiful
3. Flower Drum Song, musical~Act 1. A Hundred Million Miracles
4. Flower Drum Song, musical~Act 1. I Enjoy Being A Girl
5. Flower Drum Song, musical~Act 1. I Am Going To Like It Here
6. Flower Drum Song, musical~Act 1. Like A God
7. Flower Drum Song, musical~Act 1. Chop Suey
8. Flower Drum Song, musical~Act 1. Don't Marry Me
9. Flower Drum Song, musical~Act 1. Grant Avenue
10. Flower Drum Song, musical~Act 1. Love, Look Away
11. Flower Drum Song, musical~Act 1. At The Celestial Bar: Fan Tan Fannie / Gliding Through My Memoree / Grant Avenue (reprise)
12. Flower Drum Song, musical~Act 1. Entr'acte
13. Flower Drum Song, musical~Act 2. The Other Generation
14. Flower Drum Song, musical~Act 2. Sunday
15. Flower Drum Song, musical~Act 2. The Other Generation (reprise)
16. Flower Drum Song, musical~Act 2. Wedding Parade / A Hundred Million Miracles (reprise)

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Rodgers & Hammerstein   Primary Artist
Sandra Church   Primary Artist
Pat Suzuki   Primary Artist,Vocals
Juanita Hall   Primary Artist,Vocals
Anita Ellis   Primary Artist,Vocals
Florence Henderson   Primary Artist
Miyoshi Umeki   Primary Artist,Vocals,Featured Artist
Jack Soo   Primary Artist,Vocals
Larry Blyden   Primary Artist,Vocals
Patrick Adiarte   Primary Artist,Vocals
Arabella Hong   Primary Artist,Vocals
Conrad Yama   Primary Artist,Vocals
Salvatore Dell'Isola   Primary Artist,Musical Director,Musical Direction
Rose Quong   Primary Artist,Vocals
Flower Drum Song Pit Orchestra   Primary Artist,Orchestra
Keye Luke   Primary Artist,Vocals
Baayork Lee   Primary Artist,Vocals,Ensemble
Ed Kenney   Primary Artist,Vocals
David Toguri   Vocals,Ensemble
George Young   Vocals,Ensemble
Gene Kelly   Director
Jo Anne Miya   Ensemble
Susan Lynn   Vocals
Mabel Wing   Vocals,Ensemble
Bett Kawamura   Ensemble
Denise Quan   Vocals,Ensemble
David Lober   Vocals,Ensemble
Victor Duntiere   Vocals,Ensemble
Mary Huie   Ensemble,Vocals
Helen Fumai   Vocals,Ensemble
Wonci Lui   Vocals,Ensemble
Shawnee Smith   Vocals,Ensemble
Jose Ahumada   Ensemble,Vocals
Yuriko   Vocals,Ensemble
Vicki Racimo   Vocals,Ensemble
George Minami   Vocals,Ensemble
George Li   Vocals,Ensemble
Paula Chin   Ensemble,Vocals
Anita Allis   Vocals
Betty Kawamura   Vocals
Luis Robert Hernandez   Vocals
Yvonne Ribuca   Vocals
Pat Griffith   Vocals,Ensemble
Fumi Akimoto   Vocals,Ensemble
Robert Lorca   Vocals,Ensemble
Marion Jim   Vocals,Ensemble
Maureen Tiongco   Vocals,Ensemble
Cely Carrillo   Vocals
Joanne Miya   Vocals
Susan Lynn Kikuchi   Vocals
Linda Ribuca   Vocals

Technical Credits

Oliver Smith   Scenery
Miyoshi Umeki   Cast,Performer
Trevor Rabin   Composer
John Kander   Composer
Baayork Lee   Performer
Chester Conn   Composer
Ed Kenney   Cast,Performer
Fred Plaut   Engineer
Pat Suzuki   Cast,Performer
Tom Burleigh   Research,Archive Research
Darcy Proper   Producer
George Gershwin   Composer
Janet Gari   Composer
Didier C. Deutsch   Producer,Liner Notes,Reissue Producer
David Shire   Composer
Leonard Bernstein   Composer
Leslie Bricusse   Composer
Juanita Hall   Cast,Performer
Jule Styne   Composer
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky   Composer
Ned Miller   Composer
Nick Drake   Composer
Michel Legrand   Composer
Anita Ellis   Cast,Performer
Harold Rome   Composer
Miklos Rozsa   Composer
Robert Russell Bennett   Orchestration
Goddard Lieberson   Producer,Recording Producer
Stan Freberg   Composer
Richard Adler   Composer
Barney Bigard   Composer
Benny Krueger   Composer
Carol Haney   Choreographer
Gene Kelly   Direction
Oscar Hammerstein II   Book,Composer,Lyricist
Richard Rodgers   Composer
Mark Mancina   Composer
Jerry Ross   Composer
Bud Graham   Engineer
Jack Soo   Cast
Richard Rogers   Composer
Susan Lynn   Performer
Larry Blyden   Cast,Performer
Eleanor Becker   Editorial Production
Patrick Adiarte   Cast
Arabella Hong   Cast,Performer
Conrad Yama   Cast
Peggy Clark   Lighting
Flower Drum Song Cast   Cast
George B. Dale   Liner Notes
Ken Fredette   Art Direction
Joseph Fields   Book
The Orchestra   Performer
Irene Sharaff   Costume Design
Buddy Graham   Engineer
Flower Drum Song Cast Ensemble   Cast
Joy Gilbert Manfried   Project Director
Don Hunstein   Photography
Keye Luke   Cast,Performer