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Flower Drum Song (1958) Photos Released from the #MWBVault

Based on The Flower Drum Song, the 1957 novel by C.Y. Lee, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Flower Drum Song had a homespun exoticism that recalled the team’s previous success, The King and I, set this time around in more familiar grounds, San Francisco. Still, the new show exuded the same age-old conflict between the generations and between different lifestyles, which provided the backdrop for the story of a Chinese mail-order bride and the man she came to America to marry, a nightclub owner with no desire to settle down. The musical, premiered at the St. James on December 1, 1958.

Check out the photos which feature Pat Suzuki and the album below!

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