- 51
[Rodgers and Hammerstein]
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
bidding is closed
Description
- The Flower Drum Song. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957
- Paper, Ink
8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.; 215 x 140 mm). Publisher's gray cloth, original pictorial dust jacket, spine of jacket sunned, loss to lower spine panel. [With]: an additional copy of the book, inscribed; a playbill from the St. James Theater dated April 6, 1959 for the original Broadway musical; a brochure published by Williamson Music, inc.; and loose sheet music printed by Chappell & Co. "for use by Artists and Repertoire executives" including "A Hundred Million Miracles," "Grant Avenue," "The Other Generation," and "I Enjoy Being a Girl," with 2 pages of typescript revisions dated 11/5/58.
Catalogue Note
A group of material relating to the Gene Kelly-directed Rodgers and Hammerstein musical adaptation of C. Y. Lee's Flower Drum Song. Including a copy of the book inscribed by Lee and some of the cast and crew to Eileen Nakamura, who played Madam Fong in the original Broadway production, which ran from December 1958 to May 1960.