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Flower Drum Song. Chop suey (in the words of one of the show's tunes), routinely but expertly prepared by Chefs Rodgers & Hammerstein. With two admirable fortune cookies named Miyoshi Umeki and Pat Suzuki...
Flower Drum Song. A routine but opulent and attractive Oriental excursion by those skillful Occidentals, Rodgers and Hammerstein. With the freshest lotus leaves on Broadway, Singers Miyoshi Umeki and Pat Suzuki...
...Brother. Throughout the road try-out of any of their shows, and beyond the Broadway opening, R. & H. are omnipresent. In their separate ways, they are intensely paternal toward their cast-Hammerstein gently smiling but a little shy and withdrawn, Rodgers quick, effervescent and always ready with a hug for a chorus girl. Says one member of the cast: "Hammerstein is the Great White Father, but Rodgers is Daddy...
...about the R. & H. paternalism that the Flower Drum cast dislikes, it is the installation of closed-circuit TV in the St. James Theater, where the show has settled down for its New York run. Not that anyone objects to the stage manager keeping track of the action. But Hammerstein has ordered a cable run to his town house so that he too can monitor the show. Says Larry Blyden: "It's like Big Brother looking over your shoulder. It gives me the willies...
Flower Drum Song. Rodgers and Hammerstein's latest (see SHOW BUSINESS...