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There was nothing to do now but walk home, and Vag did this, whistling. It may have been due to a partiality for Rodgers & Hammerstein, but the tune was "There is Nothing Like a Dame...
...Rodgers and Hammerstein will be able to pay the fuel bill this winter, with Flower Drum Song, sold out for all 4½ weeks of its Boston tryout. Advance sale in New York a month before the Broadway opening: a reported $1,000,000 plus...
Financially speaking, of course, Mr. Hammerstein and his friends can't do it again: Flower Drum Song is already sold out solid for its four and a half weeks in Boston, and promises to do correspondingly well in New York. But from the aesthetic stand-point, Oliver Smith's pretty sets, some of Carol Haney's choreography, and a few nice songs and pleasant performances are the only silky spots on a lavishly gilded...
...book and lyrics are the worst of it. The setting is San Francisco's Chinatown, but Mr. Hammerstein and his co-librettist Joseph Fields have wasted the opportunities for exoticism and social comment, provided by the conflicts existing there between Chinese and American cultures...
...that has already served so many so badly. There is a fast and loose charmer who tempts the hero, but it is the little snow pea his wise old father had chosen who gets him in the end. All this is unfolded in an atmosphere that varies between Mr. Hammerstein's old Norman Rockwell whole someness and a new, Broadway, meretriciousness of second-rate sick jokes and falsie gags. Mechandizing the cuteness of a whole covey of little children (including one with a hula hoop, who got a big hand) provides the authors with one of several opportunities...