Flower Drum Song is a musical written by the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein, based on the 1957 novel of the same name by Chinese American author C. Y. Lee. The Broadway production opened in 1958 featuring, for the first time in Broadway history, a mostly Asian cast. The musical was successful (as the novel had been), garnering six Tony Award nominations and spawning a London production, national tours and a 1961 musical film, but the musical and movie would fall out of favor as the civil rights era re-defined how minorities should be portrayed on film.

Asian American playwright David Henry Hwang reworked the story and music for a 2002 Broadway revival.

Flower Drum Song is a 1961 film adaptation of the 1958 Broadway musical play Flower Drum Song, written by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. The film and stage play were based on the 1957 novel of the same name by Chinese American author C.Y. Lee. The movie was unusual in featuring nearly all Asian American cast members (the only Caucasian part being a mugger), including dancers, though most singing voices were not by Asian talent. Starring were Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta, Benson Fong, Jack Soo, James Hong and original Broadway cast members Miyoshi Umeki and Juanita Hall.

Among various changes for the film, the song "Like a God" was changed from a song into a beat poetry presentation. The singing voice of the character Linda Low was B. J. Baker, a non-Asian studio backup singer who worked with Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, the Righteous Brothers and Sam Cooke, among others.

A Chinese woman and her father illegally enter San Francisco to marry her fiance. While in San Francisco, she meets another man and falls deeply in love with him and the American way of life; to her father's disapproval. Written by Kelly