My Favorites are: "You Are Beautiful" Mandy Patinkin does a wonderful version on his Oscar and Steve album.....
and I also like "Love Look Away" wish the charector had been more developed...she was great.
Hated..."Chop Suey" etc.
You Are Beautiful is my favorite but I do not like the whole Love Look Away sequence or What Are We Going To Do About The Other Generation
shareHated 'Chop Suey' etc.
I love "love look away" and also "dont marry me" the best
Life is like a wheel everything will change
Every song is good and the best is You Are Beautiful
sharesome critic described FDS as having a "middling" score, but to me it is more uneven than middling. Some of the songs are absolutely beautiful, but others are a strong test of keeping lunch where it should be.
Best:
Anything sung by Miyoshi Umeki
Don't Marry Me ("If you wanna have attractive children, baby...")
Worst:
The Other Generation
Modern dance at the grad party
I must admit I have a thing for Miyoshi Umeki. She reminds me a lot of my wife, although my wife is not Asian. I find her utterly charming.
Best (at least for me:)
"Don't Marry Me"
"I am Going to Like it Here"
"Chop Suey"
Best--Love Look Away, Sunday, and You are Beautiful---I really enjoyed all of the songs, so I can't pick a least favorite. This is one of Roger's & Hammerstein's underrated masterpieces in my book.
shareFavourites
I Enjoy Being A Girl
A Hundred Million Miracles
I don't think there were any songs I disliked
ADORE "Sunday"! When I was a kid, I'd wear out my VHS tape rewinding over and over again the Sunday ballet.
Least favorite: I guess, "Chop Suey".
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I agree, "Sunday" is a show stopper along with "I enjoy being a girl", "Grant Avenue", and "Don't marry me...!". Intriguing musical that gets better with age.
The studio went all out to make it a superb production.
RSGRE
I was 9 years old when we saw this movie at a drive-in (!) and my older sister bought the movie score.
I must have played that LP continuously all day long for weeks - since both my parents worked and my siblings ignored me, I very happily sang along to all the tunes except the slow ones, i.e., Love Look Away, I Am Going to Like It Here, etc. although at one point my brother told me to knock it off.
Probably my favorite song was "I Enjoy Being a Girl" since I am a girl. I was so thrilled about what Linda Low thought was the best part of being a girl and since I had yet to wear makeup or have "a pound and a half of cream upon my face" I was so looking forward to becoming a "female, strictly a female and my future I hope will beeeeee...in the home of a brave and free male who'll adore being a guy having a girl....like....meeeeeeeeeeeee"
lol!
"Chrissy, get me the big knife!"
Agree that it's a superb production. It has more dancing than other R and H musicals and they're all excellent.
I thought that the "Love Look Away" ballet was great. I put it in the same category as some of Gene Kelly's great dance sequences but maybe I exaggerate.
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Favorite (by far): "I Enjoy Being a Girl"
Worst (by far): "Chop Suey" (in fact I think that is the worst R&H song in any of their movie/TV musicals)
I would like to add that I believe that Rodgers and Hammerstein were the greatest team of musical geniuses in the 20th century, closely followed by Lennon/McCartney.
But "Flower Drum Song" was (IMO) their weakest film musical. The best were (in rough order) "The Sound of Music", "South Pacific", "The King and I" and "Oklahoma!".
Favorite: Don't Marry Me
Least Favorite: Love Look Away (Actually I liked the song, but it went on and on, much too long for me.)