Flower Drum Song [2002 Broadway Revival Cast]

1	A Hundred Millon Miracles (Prologue) / Lea Salonga 8:21
2	At the Golden Pearl 0:46
3	I Am Going to Like It Here / Lea Salonga 2:56
4	I Enjoy Being a Girl / Sandra Allen 5:55
5	I Enjoy Being a Girl (Encore) / Sandra Allen 0:45
6	You Are Beautiful / Jose Llana 4:16
7	Grant Avenue / Sandra Allen 3:22
8	Sunday / Jose Llana 2:29
9	I Enjoy Being a Girl (Reprise) / Lea Salonga 0:53
10	Fan Tan Fannie / Sandra Allen 4:15
11	Gliding Through My Memoree / Randall Duk Kim 3:06
12	A Hundred Million Miracles (Act One Finale) / Lea Salonga 1:44
13	Chop Suey / Randall Duk Kim 3:45
14	My Best Love / Alvin Ing 2:15
15	I Am Going to Like It Here (Reprise) 1:12
16	Don't Marry Me / Randall Duk Kim 2:39
17	Love, Look Away / Lea Salonga 2:52
18	The Most Filial Son 0:56
19	Like a God / Jose Llana 1:30
20	Like a God (Reprise) / Jose Llana 0:35
21	Processional 1:20
22	A Hundred Million Miracles (Finale) / Jose Llana 3:25

Barnes & Noble

The hit Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Flower Drum Song owes its success to many factors -- David Henry Hwang’s revamped book, Don Sebesky’s sparkling orchestrations, and Robert Longbottom’s snappy direction and choreography, among them -- but none more so than the talent and star presence of Lea Salonga. A Tony Award winner for Miss Saigon, Salonga perfectly inhabits the leading role of Mei-Long in this brilliantly revamped version of the original 1958 show. The score itself is a wonder, featuring such highlights as "A Hundred Million Miracles," "Grant Avenue," "You Are Beautiful," "Love, Look Away," and the feel-good classic "I Enjoy Being a Girl,” here given an effervescent reading by Salonga. Capturing all the poignancy and dazzle of the musical itself, this original cast recording is both an enchanting souvenir for those who have enjoyed the show and a self-contained delight for those who haven’t yet had the pleasure. William Pearl

Barnes & Noble

The hit Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song owes its success to may factors --David Henry Hwang's revamped book; Don Sebesky's sparkling orchestrations; Robert Longbottom's snappy direction and choreography, among them-- but none more so than the talent and star presence of Lea Salonga. A Tony Award winner for Miss Saigon, Salonga perfectly inhabits the leading role of Mei-Long in this brilliantly revamped version of the original 1958 show. The score itself is a wonder featuring such highlights as "A Hundred Million Miracles," "Grant Avenue," "You Are Beautiful," "Love, Look Away," and the feel-good classic "I Enjoy Being a Girl," here given an effervescent reading by Salonga. Capturing all the poignancy and dazzle of the musical itself, this original cast recording is both an enchanting souvenir for those who have enjoyed the show and a self-contained delight for those whom haven't yet had the pleasure of seeing the musical. William Pearl

All Music Guide

Flower Drum Song is unique among Rodgers & Hammerstein's musicals in that it was neither a massive success like Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music, nor a flop like Allegro, Pipe Dream, and Me & Juliet. It was a moderate success: Its 600-performance run on Broadway, 1958-1960, returned a profit to investors; its cast album was a gold-selling number one hit; and it spawned a film that was one of the Top Ten grossers of 1962. That it was not revived on Broadway for 44 years, however, has more to do with its creaky libretto than its initial popularity. The story of Chinese immigrants in San Francisco, based on a popular novel of the day, may have been forward-looking in the late '50s, when the sight of a stage largely full of Asian-heritage actors was surprising on Broadway, but after decades of increased ethnic pride, it seemed stereotyped, and that the show's best-known song was "I Enjoy Being a Girl," which, taken out of context, sounded anti-feminist, didn't help. The Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization has taken radical measures to get the show back to Broadway, allowing playwright David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) to dispense with the original libretto and write a whole new book. Hwang's new take is less apparent on a cast album that only features the songs, but there are indications of his changes throughout, with lyrics reconfigured and sometimes clearly sung tongue-in-cheek. And Don Sebesky's new orchestrations don't just use oriental quotes, as did Robert Russell Bennett's; they delve more deeply into Asian styles. Lea Salonga leads an excellent cast in executing the new version. Flower Drum Song is still a minor, if pleasant entry in the Rodgers & Hammerstein catalog, but it has been given a successful face-lift here. William Ruhlmann