NEW YORK — C.Y. Lee, whose novel "The Flower Drum Song" became a bestseller and the basis for a popular stage musical and an Oscar-nominated film despite mixed critical reactions and concerns about ...

Palo Alto Players continues its 2018-19 season with FLOWER DRUM SONG, Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang's new adaptation of the 1958 Rodgers and Hammerstein classic musical. Based on the ...

FILE - In this Dec. 10, 2014 file photo, Alvin Ing attends "The Gambler" premiere in New York. Ing, know for his roles on Broadway and on tour in "Pacific Overtures" and "Flower Drum Song" as well as ...

Many older musicals go in for a refreshing facelift, but this version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Flower Drum Song," with a spankin' new book by David Henry Hwang, is a lot closer to wholesale ...

He was an active member of the Theater for Asian American Performing Artists and an advocate for the AAPI community in the industry. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Ing died Saturday of cardiac arrest ...

C.Y. Lee, a Chinese-born author whose best-selling 1957 novel “The Flower Drum Song” explored conflict among first- and second-generation immigrants in San Francisco’s Chinatown, provided the source ...

NEW YORK — Actor and singer Alvin Ing, known for roles on Broadway and on tour in “Pacific Overtures” and “Flower Drum Song” as well as in films such as “The Gambler,” has died. He was 89. Subscribe ...

If we want to make something new, we first have to love what is old." That line from David Henry Hwang's "revisal" of Flower Drum Song expresses the challenge facing the musical's characters, who ...

NEW YORK -- Is there a number in the Rodgers and Hammerstein songbook that has aged less gracefully than "I Enjoy Being a Girl"? The lyrics sound as if they come from some sort of man-trap manual on ...

New Broadway cast DRG Records. $14.99 . Perhaps it's one of those "Hundred Million Miracles" that happen every day: Not one, but two new, original cast recordings of Richard Rodgers and Oscar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - This Sept. 28, 2002 file photo shows author C.Y. Lee in New York. Lee, 102, the author of the best-selling “The Flower Drum ...

Arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown looks at a new makeover for a classic Broadway musical. "Flower Drum Song" began life as a novel, became a musical and a film, and is now back here on Broadway in a ...