Word: musicale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mei Li, the "picture bride," has traveled far to greet her future father-in-law in the stubbornly Oriental parlor of his San Francisco home. And she has arrived on time. Until now, Flower Drum Song has been nothing but the newest Rodgers and Hammerstein hit musical-brisk, bright, opulently...
Over 70 people tried out Monday, Tuesday, and yesterday for parts in the musical, whose definite cast will be announced today. The show was chosen at an emergency Radcliffe Student Council meeting Sunday as a replacement for the originally scheduled musical adaptation of Gogol's Government Inspector.
Young People's Concerts (CBS, 12-1 p.m.). Conductor Leonard Bernstein, undisputed champion of the music-appreciation game, leads the New York Philharmonic through snatches of Mozart, Beethoven, Sibelius, Gershwin, explaining all the while the musical chromosomes at work when a symphony is in the fetal stage.
Drumbeats had been without a script since an original musical adaptation of Gogol's Government Inspector was rejected last week as "too ambitious" for the time available before the show opens March 13.
Members of the production staff felt that the show could be produced at a minimum cost of $1295, although miscellaneous costs might bring it toward the $1600 allotted for Government Inspector. The Broadway musical, which concerns two girls seeking jobs in New York, could be adapted to a Cambridge locale...