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"To create something new, we must first love what is old." So says a character in David Henry Hwang's updated book to the 1958 Broadway musical Flower Drum Song by Richard Rogers, Oscar Hammerstein II and Joseph Fields. This new, fully revised Fower Drum Song includes David Henry Hwang's updated text; an introduction by Hwang and and afterword by Karen Wada, carefully documenting the long and vital history of this landmark musical. -- Back cover.