Flower Drum Song (Score) Review

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(More customer reviews)I read this book many years ago and enjoyed so much that I have read everything I could find by Mr. Lee, and since then other Chinese American authors.
It is a shame that for so many years the book was rejected by young Asian Americans as being "too white face" or "Uncle Tom" as it is not so at all.C.Y. Lee was a Chinese immigrant and wrote of the society as he saw it at that time, which is not the way the younger generation, who did not live through the immigrant experience, want to see it.This is not unusual, many well schooled, well fed sucessful Americans do not want to know that their grandparents arrived in steerage with their belongings tied up in kit bag, unable to speak the language, and worked 18 hours a day in menial jobs so that their children could get ahead.
This is a poignant story of Chinese immigrant families in Southern California during the days of the Chinese Exclusion Act, and the difficulty the young American-raised men had in finding a wife.They were not allowed to bring women in from China, and they were not permitted to marry non Asians.Because of the Communist takeover, many Chinese who had dreamed of returning home to China when they retired after working all their lives were unable to do so. The situtation created an artifically stressed society.The book has tragedy and sadness, as well as hope and joy.
My only criticism of the novel, and a mild one at that, is that it frequently reads like a play script, especially in the last chapter, where there is a lot of dialogue, followed by descriptions of the action which read like stage directions.It is possible that the novel was orignally intended to be a play.
Warning, possible spoiler:
The musical version of the book which was also filmed was very loosely based on the novel, in fact one of the major characters was created for the musical.Apparently this has been done again with the new version playing on Broadway.Readers expecting to find a printed version of the musical may be disappointed.

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The complete vocal score with 15 songs: Chop Suey * Don't Marry Me * Fan Tan Fannie * Finale * Flower Drum Song * Gliding Through My Memoree * Grant Avenue * A Hundred Million Miracles * I Am Going to like It Here * I Enjoy Being a Girl * Like a God * Love, Look Away * The Other Generation * Ta's Dream * You Are Beautiful.

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Cowgirls (Vocal Selections) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a strong woman's musical with great music that doesn't get tiring to listen to. I'd recommend it for anyone wanting to perform a great musical for theatre.

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15 selections from the 1996 musical, including: Cowgirls * Don't Call Me Trailer Trash * Don't Look Down * Every Saturday Night * From Chopin to Country * Heads or Tails * Honky Tonk Girl * House Rules * It's Time to Come Home * Kingdom of Country * Love's Sorrow/Looking for a Miracle * Saddle Tramp Blues * Songs My Mama Sang * Sunflower * They're All Cowgirls to Me.

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The Sound of Their Music: The Story of Rodgers and Hammerstein (Applause Books) Review

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(More customer reviews)Frederick Nolan tells the story of Rodgers and Hammerstein both as a team and as separate people. Indeed there is a good deal of space allotted to their careers BEFORE they ever worked together. But after they team up the narrative becomes more lively and a real page turner, at least partly because Nolan's style is graceful and charming in itself. He seems to have read everything written about them, even going so far as to watch TV kinescopes of them from the 1950s, and he talked to many people who knew them, worked with them.
It's the backstage stories that make the book sing. Practically every page has a at least one fascinating anecdote. And he doesn't sugar-coat their personalities--Rodgers's curtness, even cruelty, and Hammerstein's insecurity, tendency to swallow his pride.
It's hard to read the book without singing to yourself. My God, what songs these two wrote! But more than that, what dramatists they were; they broke convention again and again and mostly successfully.
Pull out your recordings of Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific and start reading!

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The greatest partnership in the history of the musical, captured in print, wonderfully illustrated. For this new edition, the book has been completely rewritten and substantially expanded to include material on Rodgers' early career with Lorenz Hart as well as his later work, and also features recollections from such theatrical titans as Sheldon Harnick, Martin Charnin, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents. Also, a completely new appendix reveals the details of the continuing worldwide phenomenon of Rodgers and Hammerstein's work up to and including the 2002 centennial year for Rodgers.

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Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (Vocal Selections) Review

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(More customer reviews)This book of sheet music was exactly what I was looking for and it was in perfect condition and arrived right on time~!

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13 piano/vocal selections from the 1957, 1965, and 1997 television productions of Cinderella, including: Cinderella Waltz * Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful * Falling in Love with Love * Impossible * In My Own Little Corner * Stepsister's Lament * Ten Minutes Ago * and more. Extra features include a Rodgers and Hammerstein biography, plot synopsis, a history of the show, and photos from all three productions.

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Cinderella (Vocal Score) Review

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(More customer reviews)This Vocal Score has all of the music from the show- even scene change and bows and exit music.(...)

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Vocal score to the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical with 17 numbers, including: Boys and Girls like You and Me * Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful? * Gavotte * In My Own Little Corner * A Lovely Night * Wedding Processional * and more.

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