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Yes, I know, but we probably shouldn't have been discussing them here. It is a Flower Drum Song thread. It's easy to get sidetracked, and they ARE both R&H shows, but I didn't want a moderator slapping our hands.

I would say it might be best to move such a discussion to this thread: https://www.hometheaterforum.com/community/threads/the-rodgers-and-hammerstein-collection-blu-ray-review.331528/#post-4085517

I honestly don't remember. It was in 1978. I just remember there was no real dancing nor any attempt at production numbers..

Except those songs weren't staged on their tiny stage as production numbers. The songs were sung, and then the story moved onward.

OR use the link at the bottom of my review. I put a link at the bottom of EVERY review.

Ah! That makes more sense now.

It's kind of hard to understand how Otto Preminger could do such a great job directing the operatic Carmen Jones and yet do such a stiff and unimaginative job with Porgy and Bess. I wonder if he was intimidated with the significance of the material he was working with in the latter case.

Yes, Marilynn (as she was billed) did dub Dorothy in Carmen Jones. Adele Addison dubbed her in Porgy and Bess.

Yes, it's mentioned in the bonus features.

Both mentioned in my review.

In the bonus features, James Shigeta was identified as a Hawaiian.

Well, in most cases you're probably right, but when I saw Oklahoma! in a dinner theater setting in the 1980s, the ballet was naturally excised. There was nowhere to stage it!

I have an MP3 player that I use in my car to provide music since I prefer Broadway cast albums to whatever I can find to play on the radio. There are only two movie soundtracks I have on the player rather than their Broadway counterparts: Flower Drum Song and Carousel. I don't think it's any...

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