Flower Drum Song The New Broadway Cas (2003)

Product Summary Label: Koch International Distributio UPC: 00021471299625 Release Date: 1/7/2003 Buy.com Sku: 60584594 Item#: MC6NVV Buy.com Sales Rank: 2124 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Prologue: A Hundred Million Miracles ~ Original 2002 Broadway Cast Recording 2. At The Golden Pearl ~ Original 2002 Broadway Cast Recording 3. I Am Going To Like It Here ~ Original 2002 Broadway Cast Recording 4. I Enjoy Being A Girl ~ Original 2002 Broadway Cast Recording 5. I Enjoy Being A Girl - (encore) ~ Original 2002 Broadway Cast Recording 6. You Are Beautiful ~ Original 2002 Broadway Cast Recording 7. Grant Avenue ~ Original 2002 Broadway Cast Recording 8. Sunday ~ Original 2002 Broadway Cast Recording 9. I Enjoy Being A Girl - (reprise) ~ Original 2002 Broadway Cast Recording 10. Fan Tan Fannie ~ Original 2002 Broadway Cast Recording 11. Gliding Through My Memoree ~ Original 2002 Broadway Cast Recording 12. Act One Finale: A Hundred Million Miracles ~ Original 2002 Broadway Cast Recording 13. Chop Suey ~ Original 2002 Broadway Cast Recording 14. My Best Love ~ Original 2002 Broadway Cast Recording 15. I Am Going To Like It Here - (reprise) ~ Original 2002 Broadway Cast Recording 16. Don't Marry Me ~ Original 2002 Broadway Cast Recording 17. Love, Look Away ~ Original 2002 Broadway Cast Recording 18. Most Final Son, The ~ Original 2002 Broadway Cast Recording 19. Like A God ~ Original 2002 Broadway Cast Recording 20. Like A God - (reprise) ~ Original 2002 Broadway Cast Recording 21. Processional ~ Original 2002 Broadway Cast Recording 22. Finale: A Hundred Million Miracles ~ Original 2002 Broadway Cast Recording   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Full performer name: Original 2002 Broadway Cast Recording. Music by Richard Rodgers. Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Principal Cast: Lea Salonga (Mei-Li); Randall Duk Kim (Wang); Alvin Ing (Chin); Jose Llana (Ta); Allen Liu (Harvard); Sandra Allen (Linda Low); Jodi Long (Madame Liang); Hoon Lee (Chao). Recorded at Clinton Recording Studios, New York, New York, October 21, 2002. Includes liner notes by Theodore S. Chapin and David Chase. FLOWER DRUM SONG was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album. Flower Drum Song is unique among Rodgers & Hammerstein's musicals in that it was neither a massive success like Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music, nor a flop like Allegro, Pipe Dream, and Me & Juliet. It was a moderate success: Its 600-performance run on Broadway, 1958-1960, returned a profit to investors; its cast album was a gold-selling number one hit; and it spawned a film that was one of the Top Ten grossers of 1962. That it was not revived on Broadway for 44 years, however, has more to do with its creaky libretto than its initial popularity. The story of Chinese immigrants in San Francisco, based on a popular novel of the day, may have been forward-looking in the late '50s, when the sight of a stage largely full of Asian-heritage actors was surprising on Broadway, but after decades of increased ethnic pride, it seemed stereotyped, and that the show's best-known song was "I Enjoy Being a Girl," which, taken out of context, sounded anti-feminist, didn't help. The Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization has taken radical measures to get the show back to Broadway, allowing playwright David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) to dispense with the original libretto and write a whole new book. Hwang's new take is less apparent on a cast album that only features the songs, but there are indications of his changes throughout, with lyrics reconfigured and sometimes clearly sung tongue-in-cheek. And Don Sebesky's new orchestrations don't just use oriental quotes, as did Robert Russell Bennett's; they delve more deeply into Asian styles. Lea Salonga leads an excellent cast in executing the new version. Flower Drum Song is still a minor, if pleasant entry in the Rodgers & Hammerstein catalog, but it has been given a successful face-lift here. ~ William Ruhlmann Producer: Hugh Fordin; David Chase   Technical Info Release Date : 01/07/2003 Original Release Date : 2003 Catalog ID : 12996 Label : DRG (USA) Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00021471299625    Product Image