Asian American plays (Book Guide): Plays by David Henry Hwang, Plays by Frank Chin, Flower Drum Song, The Chickencoop Chinaman, Bengal Tiger at the ... Water, Making Tracks, The Year of the Dragon

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (plays not included). Pages: 25. Chapters: Plays by David Henry Hwang, Plays by Frank Chin, Flower Drum Song, The Chickencoop Chinaman, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, The Domestic Crusaders, Be Like Water, Making Tracks, The Year of the Dragon, The Trial of Dara Shikoh, No-No Boy, Dragonwings, Ghashiram Kotwal, M. Butterfly, Yellow Face, Stop Kiss, Golden Child, FOB, Family Devotions, Trying to Find Chinatown, Face Value, Sound and Beauty, Bondage, The House of Sleeping Beauties, The Sound of a Voice, Peer Gynt, Bang Kok, The Romance of Magno Rubio, Rich Relations, The Dance and the Railroad, Tibet Through the Red Box, As the Crow Flies, Merchandising, Jade Flowerpots and Bound Feet, The Great Helmsman, A Very DNA Reunion. Excerpt: Flower Drum Song was the eighth stage musical by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. It was based on the 1957 novel, The Flower Drum Song, by Chinese-American author C. Y. Lee. The piece opened in 1958 on Broadway and was afterwards presented in the West End and on tour. It was subsequently made into a 1961 musical film. After their extraordinary early successes, beginning with Oklahoma! in 1943, Rodgers and Hammerstein had written two musicals in the 1950s that did not do well and sought a new hit to revive their fortunes. Lee's novel focuses on a father, Wang Chi-yang, a wealthy refugee from China, who clings to traditional values in San Francisco's Chinatown. Rodgers and Hammerstein shifted the focus of the musical to his son, Wang Ta, who is torn between his Chinese roots and assimilation into American culture. The team hired Gene Kelly to make his debut as a stage director with the musical and scoured the country for a suitable Asian - or at least, plausibly Asian-looking - cast. The musical, much more light-hearted than Lee's novel, was profitable on Broadway and was...