Flower Drum Song - A Hundred Million Miracles - Lea Salonga video free download

Yuhuan Jiang

Do you have the soundtrack of the live recording, instead of this CD recording?

AvalonMorley

I loved Yuka Takara as Mei Li in the 1st natl. tour of this, and my friend who saw the Broadway production and the tour preferred her to Miss Salonga, as wonderful as she is. I couldn't help kind of loving the revisal, in spite of myself, and my basic disapproval of the process, of revising the work of artists no longer here to agree or not. I did feel they should have changed the title at least a bit (maybe "Song of the Flower Drum"). Some songs suffered and some benefited, I thought, from the new placement and story; I was not happy with what they did to "Chop Suey," which I find an oddly moving, beautiful, and life-affirming song in the original ("...something real and glowing and grand, spreads a light all over the land,..."--classic Oscar H II). On the other hand, I felt that "Like A God" gained more depth of meaning, as did "You Are Beautiful." Jose Llana was so lovely in his role, and it was a thrill to see (and later meet) Alvin Ing. The entire cast was excellent, but Yuka Takara really broke hearts and created fans in that show.

cje24576

Thanks for posting this! I was wondering though: do you have a video of the wedding procession? Also, do you have the whole play on video? Thanks.

Paul sperrazza

sorry im a purist! very interesting! but doesnt do it for me!

LionWingenedMunki39

I got the Rodgers & Hammerstein collection box set of movies & Flower Drum Song isn't there! Must not have been popular enough to join classics like Oklahoma! and Sound of Music

infinera06

I'm sure all the cast members in Les Mis were French.

VladtheEmailer

I agree with you. It's a beautiful musical and I'm so sad I wasn't able to see this production. I've shown the original movie to countless friends and family from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China who found it delightful. If people find it offensive they usually don't "get it." The music is just superb!

cje24576

I saw this with Lea Salonga in NYC & she was absolutely fantastic! It's really a shame the revival wasn't put on DVD (at least to my knowledge). Thank you so much for posting this!

Tony Young

Where can I see the rest of this? I had the pleasure of meeting the cast in a Little Tokyo Ramen restaurant after their show.

Broadway Classics

@skippyd89 But that was author David Henry Hwang's whole point: that Chinese in the U.S. were forced to do offensive things to survive. The show certainly wasn't condoning it - that was clear to me when I saw it. And now actors must come from the exact country of the character they play? I certainly understand the problems with yellowface casting, but Filipinos can only play Filipinos? What happened to becoming a character? Isn't that what acting is all about?

Kevin Vavasseur

Saw it both in LA and NYC. IT WAS AN AMAZING PRODUCTION! Only drawback in NY was that it was in a much larger theater than the Taper in LA so it lost it's intimacy and didn't seem like they compensated for the larger space. But it's a gorgeous reworking.

biukucanoe

@boinx1234 wow, I saw it live in seattle and got the CD they sold at the show. The new book is a bit pc, as if it were coated in a 1970s Asian American history course, but the song performance quality with Salonga and the rest of the cast and recording quality is much better than the old movie.

AQuietNight

This little snippet isn't enough to judge the whole production, but it does seem to lack some of the warmth of the original.

sapphirechick

Thanks for posting this up! Any chance you'll post up the full version?

filmvisionary

Thanks for posting this! Even though it's only a tidbit, I have always wanted to see this revival. As for those who dislike this reboot, I must point out that it was redone specifically to address many outdated stereotypes that would have offended many Asian Americans today. Being a sort-of culture musical, it is only natural that our views change over time. Whether you like the changes or not , they were made out of the highest respect for both its source material and its modern audience.

Francis Writer

Unfortunately Hwang mess up this great R&H masterpiece. Although the show has star performers like Lea but Hwang changed the entire sequence and made it into like his disastrous and misleading M Buttefly movie. Really hate it when people made matter worse when they try improvising the original.

Broadway Classics

Apparently R and H were getting few requests to produce the show because many Asians found it offensive. And it had never been revived on Broadway. So when David Henry Hwang approached them with the idea of a new book, they were receptive.The rights holders (including Ralph Fields, the son of co-librettist Joseph Fields) liked what they heard from Hwang and decided to say yes. "We went into it understanding that if we were going to go ahead with this experiment, we had to be open to it."

Broadway Classics

showtunestarpower I saw this revival and keep wondering why, if they hated the original Joseph Fields book so much, did they bother to bring the show back to non-life. I certainly appreciate a few well chosen nips and tucks in an old show but this was a total dis of what the original creators set out to do.

Broadway Classics

mischine good rendition.choreography, and all. just fantastic. lea does her thing with passion. you just have to put yourself into it, and tadah you are crying and laughing with her. lol! . OmsIsabel Thanks for sharing this! artcream530 Thanks a lot for sharing! xx . txquis This is the only glimpse I've ever had of this interesting revival/revision of the classic R and H musical. Spectacular.

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