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Lea is starring in the new revised production of Flower Drum Song, which opened on Broadway in October 2002. The seldom performed Rodgers & Hammerstein musical included many Asian stereotypes, including referring to Chinese women as "local egg rolls." The updated book of Flower Drum Song is credited to David Henry Hwang, the Tony Award-winning writer of M. Butterfly. In the new reinterpretation, the lead character, Fan Tan Fanny, is no longer a mail-order bride; she's a refugee fleeing Communist China and the Cultural Revolution. The most well-known song, I Enjoy Being a Girl, is set up as a semi-feminist anthem.