In the Asian community, it suffers from the impression that it
stereotypes Asians, but on the other hand, it's the closest thing
Asian Americans have to a Porgy and Bess or Fiddler on the Roof.
I've heard of some Asian communities doing it, either as is or
updated, but with the current prohibition of whites acting as Asian
parts, there is little chance mainstreamers would attempt to do it
without an all-Asian cast, which also puts it at an even bigger
disadvantage as compared to doing the zillionth production of
Oaklahoma.
If you ask me, I was disappointed at the ending, the nice Chinese
American girl who likes number one son should have gotten him, not
the shy mail order bride, but then she didn't try very hard to get
noticed.
z54\clipim\2001\12\14\flower\image1.gif 2,3 Review David Henry Hwang revises
"Flower Drum Song" Northwest Asian Weekly Dec 8, 2001 p. 9
MIchael Huchwara Associated Press
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http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/showbiz.today/featured.story/0111/04.html
'Flower Drum Song' stays close to roots By Lauren Hunter CNN Showbiz
Today Reports November 7, 2001
DAVID HENRY HWANG'S REMAKE OF FLOWER DRUM SONG A HIT
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http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/display?slug=flower28&date=20011028
Seattle Times October 28, 2001 'Flower Drum Song' gets makeover By
Misha Berson Seattle Times theater critic musical comedy has
resurfaced in Los Angeles, in a revisionist version written by noted
playwright David Henry Hwang it was the first Broadway show with a
large cast of Asian Americans — from Pat Suzuki (a winning singer
"discovered" by Bing Crosby at a club in Seattle) to the petite,
Japanese-born Miyoshi Umeki. decline ... a paradoxical convergence of
casting requirements and a bitter backlash by Chinese Americans ..
[that it was stereotyped and dated]
Rodgers & Hammerstein time June 8, 1998 p. 181. R & H
wrote nine musicals together. five are legendary hits
Oaklahoma, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and
the Sound Of Music. The Flower Drum Song was also a success,
but not in the same league.
FLOWER DRUM SONG REVIVAL IN WORKS \clip\97\97\flowsong.txt
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/chronicle/article.cgi?file= DD1911.DTL&directory=/chronicle/archive/1997/10/09
Thursday, October 9, 1997 · Page E3 ©1997 San Francisco Chronicle
Woo, `Flower Drum Song' Stars to Get Golden Rings Asian American Art
Foundation awards Edward Guthmann, Chronicle Staff Writer
Re-issued by MCA on home video early 90s.
See - A&E The Sound Of Movies laser disc review is here:
http://wsf2.usatoday.com/life/enter/laser/leld084.htm
Hu's on First column: Asian Week Jan 15, 1989
Forbidden City, Flower Drum Song
The Musicals Home Page
http://musicals.mit.edu/musicals/shows/Flower_Drum_Song/
Synopsis
http://musicals.mit.edu/musicals/shows/Flower_Drum_Song/ synopsis.shtml
Contents
Asian Arts Spectrum
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60% 1999 Seattle Youth Symphony violins
55% 1994 Calif Youth Orchestra
28% 1999 Seattle Youth Symphony musicians
14% 1995 Public Television children shows
7.5% 1994 San Francisco Symphony
3.8% 1994 Seattle Symphony
2.3% 1994 all TV parts
2.0% 1995 Cable TV children programs
1.9% 1998 all TV roles APA
1.3% 1998 series leads
0.5% 1997 series leads APA female
0.2% 1997 series leads APA males
0% 1993 top paid entertainers
0% 1993 100 most powerful in Hollywood
See TV roles
@@acting
Blacks are not underrepresented as Actors. Asians are tied with
Hispanics for more under-represented, with more theater and movie
work, but fewer commercials.
[[Biography
$$Park, Steve
$$Wang, Garrett
[[General
winter 2000 issue of OCA newsletter
Network Brownout - picture of liberal OCA with ... Rev Al Sharpton???
1998 Casting data of Screen Actors Guild
1997 0.2% series leads to APA males 0.5% female
1998 1.9% all tv roles to APA
2.5% supporting roles to APA, 4 (all women) were cast of 1353 in 1998
APA peaked on TV at 2.3% 1994 2.1% in 1998
\doc\96\07\blackact.txt
Black Actors Leading In Getting Roles (USA Today)
Seattle Times Oct 14, 1996 p. 6
Screen Actor's Guild study of TV and movie
roles
1995 19% minority 1991 15%
13% black male 11%
4% latino male
3% latino female
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1992 Screen Actors Guild Membership
Total White Black Hispani Asian Am Indian
Index 1.00 -1.53 -2.85 -2.00 -1.61
Rank Theatrical Film Television Commercials
143% Am Indi 111% White 114% White
117% Black 108% Black 83% Black
106% White 71% Am Indi 71% Am Indian
86% Asian 57% Asian 51% Hispanic
40% Hispani 30% Hispani 29% Asian
Asians and Hispanics are last, Blacks over rep in TV and Theater films
@@anime (Japanese Animation)
\clip\96\10\anime.txt Los Angeles Times Tuesday, December 3, 1996
COLUMN ONE Beyond 'Speed Racer'
@@bio
[[carrere, tia
doc\94\3\tia.txt wayne' world 2
@@classical music
_classical music
Asians are high in youth participation, but not in
subscriptions, or professional orchestras
Summary:
#Curtis Intitute W1.00(.71) A 11.29
Julliard W1.00(.87) B-2.28 H-2.73 A 5.11
#Palo Alto Chamber Orches W1.00 A 4.88
Seattle Youth Symp 94 W1.00(.78) B1.03 H1.33 A 4.33 N 1.17
#San Jose Symp. Youth Orc W1.00 A 3.80
#Calif. Youth Orchestra W1.00 A 3.67
#San Fran. Symp Youth Orc. W1.00 A 1.47
Go to Opera W1.00 B-1.78 A 1.44
Go to Ballet W1.00 B-1.81 A 1.30
Go to Classical Music W1.00 B-1.91 A -1.04
Go to Musicals W1.00 B-1.27 A -1.72
San Jose Symphony 95 W1.00(1.79)B-6.92 H-41.8 A -3.68
Seattle Symphony 94 W1.00 B-6.65 H0.00 A -3.86 N0.00
#San Francisco Symphony W1.00 A -4.86
SF Symphony Subscribers W1.00(1.95)BH-9.53 A-13.9
# compared against non-Asian population instead of white
Rank by absolute Percentage
---------------------------
Seattle Youth Symphony Violins 1999 66%
Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra 50.0%
San Jose Symphony Youth Orch 45.5%
San Francisco Symphony Youth Orc 36.8%
Seattle Youth Symphony 1999 28%
[[City
[[Boston - won't release figures, but they have them
[[Los Angeles Philharmonic
213-972-7211
[[San Francisco - don't have a breakdown
[[San Francisco Bay
\doc\95\13\asiaorc2.wk1 - Asians in orchestras
\doc\95\14\sjsymp.wk1
San Jose Symphony 1994-95 season
San Jose Symphony W1.00 (1.79) B-6.92 H-41.83 A-3.68
d:\priv\95\01\asiaorch.txt - asians high in prizes, classical
solists, but not professional orchestras
In 1994: Pop
Professional Totl AsianPct Asian NonAsiIndex
San Jose Symphony 89 3 3.4% 18.0% 82.0% -6.29
San Francisco Symphony 106 8 7.5% 28.4% 71.6% -4.86
Total 195 11 5.6%
Student
Calif. Youth Orchestra 109 60 55.0% 25.0% 75.0% 3.67
San Francisco Symphony Youth Orc 87 32 36.8% 28.4% 71.6% 1.47
San Jose Symphony Youth Orch 44 20 45.5% 18.0% 82.0% 3.80
Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra 26 13 50.0% 17.0% 83.0% 4.88
Total 266 125 47.0%
CYO vs. average of SF and SJ, PA is vs. Santa Clara county
Sources: California Youth Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, San Jose
Symphony, Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra Mercury News
[[Seattle
\doc\95\13\seasymp.txt
Index W1.00 B-6.65 H0.00 A-3.86 Pct W94.3 B1.9 H0.0 A3.8
Seattle Symphony by Race 1994 (source: adminstration 443-4740)
White Black Hisp Asian Total
Number 99 2 0 4 105
Percent 94.3% 1.9% 0.0% 3.8%
City 73.7% 9.9% 3.6% 11.5%
Rate 1.28 0.19 0.00 0.33
Index 1.00 -6.65 0.00 -3.86
Asians are nearly as under-represented as Blacks at 1/6 vs. 1/4
SF Symp 415-552-8000 - no information
Seattle Youth Symphony Vs. King County
(Based on 33% sample of auditions, black thought to be close to 4 than
White Black Hisp Asian NatAm
Orches 65.0% 4.0% 3.0% 26.0% 1.0%
County 83.3% 5.0% 2.9% 7.7% 1.1%
Rate 0.78 0.80 1.03 3.38 0.91
Index 1.00 1.03 1.33 4.33 1.17
Mary Lathrop
Seattle Youth Symphony May 1999 Program
\images\99\05\18\syso98.gif
24 Asian violinists out of 34 total, about 2/3
1 / 31 Endowed "musical" chairs
35/ 124 musicians 28% overall
\doc\94\17\asclass.wk1 - Asians in classical music
Asian Americans and Philanthropy
Asian Week 6/3/94 Elisa Lee
SF Symphony Subscribers W1.95 BH-9.53 A-13.9
Julliard vs. US pop W1.00(.87) B-2.28 H-2.73 A5.11
Curtis Intitute NonAsian 1.00(.71) Asian 11.29
VIOLINS IN SEATTLE AND THE ASIAN CONNECTION
"Meeting the Maker: Today's string instruments show their master's
touch" Seattle Post Intelligencer April 12, 1997 p. B1 F041297 RM
Campbell PI Music Critic. Asian interest in violin playing in the
1970 is credited with rising string instrument values and new
interest in creating new instruments.
@@comedy
The funniest women ever Ladirs Home Journal
Feb 1999 poll of readers
Top 10
Rosie O'Donnell
Lucille Ball
Whoopi Goldberg
Goldie Hawn
Gilda Radner
Lily Tomlin
Carol Burnett
Lily Tomlin
Kirstie Alley
Bette Midler
Roseanne
1 black
3 jews?
\priv\96b\03\ascomic.txt Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 06:27:50 -0400 From:
NewsHound@sjmercury.com (NewsHound) NOTHING'S SACRED Racism, taboos
get a mighty wallop from Asian-American comedy troupe By Carolyn Jung
Step into the irreverent world of the 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors,
and prepare to be assaulted. Nothing is sacred to the Bay Area's only
Asian-American skit comedy troupe. Amy Tan, lactose intolerance,
mah-jongg and internment camps all get skewered here.
[[[ Participation - see arts.participation
@@participation
doc941\artspart.wk1 Arts participation by race white=1.0
Opera W1.00 B-1.78 A 1.44
Ballet W1.00 B-1.81 A 1.30
Classical Music W1.00 B-1.91 A-1.04
Musicals W1.00 B-1.27 A-1.72
@@end classical
@@entertainer
1994 ASIANS 0.23 ENTERTAINMENT VS 3% POP
\doc\95\07\entpers.txt Entertainment Personalities, 1994 - Asians are
4 / 1760 (0.23%) entertainment personalities, 3% of population.
source: World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1995
index W1.00 A-13.00
BLACKS 3X, ASIANS 0 TOP 10 ENTERTAINERS
\doc935\richent.xls,.prn Of top 10 paid entertainers, relative
to population
W1.00 B3.00 H0.00 A0.00
@@media
MINORITIES, BUT NOT BLACKS, UNDERREPRESENTED IN SF BAY MEDIA
doc931\minmedia.xls
"Minorities bypassed by media"
San Francisco Examiner Dec 8, 1991 by Steven A. Chin
SF State Journalism Dept and Public Research Institutes
Blacks are actually about even with whites, but Asians
and Hispanics are down by a factor of five
Newpaper sources compared with 1990 Bay Area population
News Pop Ratio vs White
White 80.0 60.0 1.0
Black 11.0 9.0 -1.09
Hisp 4.0 15.0 -5.00
Asian 4.0 15.0 -5.00
Other 1.0 7.0 -9.33
Television sources
White 81.0 60.0 1.0
Black 12.0 9.0 -1.01
Hisp 3.0 15.0 -6.75
Asian 4.0 15.0 -5.06
Other 0.0 7.0 -0.00
@@movies
%%Berkeley
The Movies, Race, and Ethnicity Media Resources Center Moffitt
Library, UC Berkeley 642-8197 \clip\97\08\ethmov\ethmov.htm
%%Chan, Jackie
z50\clip\2001\07\rush2.txt Film of the week: Chan's "Rush Hour 2" By
STEVE SAILER, UPI National Correspondent
http://www.vny.com/cf/news/upidetail.cfm?QID=208085 Liberal
whites like to believe that such differences are only skin-deep.
Underneath, they assume, everybody is a white liberal. Tucker's
character is loud, assertive, fun-loving, egotistical, sexy and tall,
while Chan's is quiet, shy, duty-bound, worried, cuddly and short.
%%Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
http://www.crouchingtiger.com
Ang Lee 2000 kung fu film
The Flight Club How a modest man made 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden
Dragon' the soaring-est movie of the year By ELIZABETH WEITZMAN New
York DAily News Online - Arts and Lifestyle - Movies Sunday, December
03, 2000
http://www.nydailynews.com/2000-12-03/New_York_Now/Movies/a-90695.asp
Ang Lee does a Kung Fu movie with Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh.
Film promises "Matrix" style fights and lush period epic scenary.
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z47\clip\2001\01\asmov.txt
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/14/arts/14KEHR.html?printpage=yes
January 14, 2001 In Movie Theaters Now: The Asian Alternative By DAVE
KEHR "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," an elevated martial arts film
from Taiwan's Ang Lee ("The Wedding Banquet"), is on its way to
becoming the first Chinese-language film to break out of the art
house and become a genuine popular success. will almost certainly
become the highest-grossing foreign-language film of all time in the
United States,
January 10, 2001 Film Institute Chooses Top 10 `Moments of
Significance' By RICK LYMAN ...and the "watershed" combination of
global storytelling techniques in Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden
Dragon" were chosen as "moments of significance" in the American Film
Institute's first attempt to chart the coming century in movies.
meaning of Tiger/Dragon.. by: mishimamasan (35/M/new york, NY)
12/9/00 5:54 pm Tiger & Dragon are the names of the young couple, Jen
& Lo, in chinese (the name got lost in the translation. god knows
why? i would think it's important) "The world is full of Crouching
Tiger and Hidden Dragon" is quoted in the movie dialog to mean "full
of hidden dangers". it's the number one movie in france?)
1/22: 27 theaters in greater boston vs 43 "new groove"
Soundtrack is #18 on Amazon.com, 1/10 #16 1/17
outsells Breathe by Faith Hill (29)
Britney Spears (33). Grinch soundtrack is top 100 on billboard, but
not on amazon.
z47\clip\2001\01\11\bostiger High-flying 'Tiger' By Jay
Carr Boston Globe http://go.boston.com/ Ang Lee, who never makes the
same movie twice, has described it as an idealized fantasy of the
Hong Kong martial arts films he grew up watching as a boy in Taiwan.
Movie Book
In a Year of Movie Lows, We Found some Highs In 'Almost Famous'
Flicks' In our top 10, modest films outdid big productions 'Hidden
Dragon Slays Hollywood' Wall Street Journal Jan 5, 2001 Yuen Wo-Ping
staged the combat routines (also Matrix). Characters speak Mandarin,
but first language is cinema.
z47\clip\2001\01\heyram.txt the-hindu.com 'Tiger' may burn bright
Taiwan's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (Ang Lee). (may get oscar
for best picture, only 6 foreign language movies have won in 72 years)
People who made Crouching Tiger
drydem"
[[Flower Drum song, Rogers and Hammerstein Musical / Movie
Rogers and Hammerstein. One of the least well know of the R&H
musicals, it was the first and perhaps only major studio movie with
an all-Asian cast. The only speaking white part was the mugger, which
says a lot about some Chinese view the Americans. Their musicals
alway pit two groups, Navy vs. Islanders, Cowboys vs. Farmers, here
it's the modern American way vs. the traditional Chinese way in chop
suey San Francisco chinatown where the two meet and co-exists, sort
of. The most endearing legacy that most people may not realize is the
hit song "I enjoy being a girl" which keeps popping up in the oddest
places in the 80s and 90s despite it's being the ultimate
anti-feminist song.
%%rising sun
doc936:risesun.txt Rising Sun
doc938:movies.txt Rising Sun, Joy Luck Club, Power Rangers
@@Music
From: