Episode
They Call Us Flower Drum Song
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- They Call Us Bruce
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- May 21, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 2308
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Summary
Jeff and Phil welcome back acclaimed legendary playwright David Henry Hwang , who talks about his new take on the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Flower Drum Song , now playing at East West Players in Los Angeles. He talks about rewriting and re-contextualizing the book for this beloved show (still only one of the few Broadway musicals to center Asian Americans); refreshing some of the more outdated and regressive elements of the story -- including a few of the cringe-inducing lines from David's own 2002 revisal -- for contemporary times; and how this staging of Flower Drum Song represents a full-circle moment for David's life and career.