the plot concerns a immature Chinese girl, Mei Li, world health organization is bring around the America to enter into an ordered marriage. Her meant, world health organization is already exposed by having the chorus girl, Linda Online, lone step by step comes to appreciate Mei Li's qualities.

Inside 1961 the musical was manufactured into the movie, starring Nancy Kwan as Linda Low, James Shigeta, Benson Fong, Jack Soo, & original Broadway cast members Umeki and Hall. A film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color, Best Cinematography, Color, Best Costume Design, Color, Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture and Best Sound.

Within 2002, a revival of a show opened in Broadway at the Virginia Theatre. Sustaining an totally freshly book by David Henry Hwang, & a total of changes in the music (including freshly lyrics for two or three of songs, 1 total cut, & a second cut total reinserted), the production was directed & choreographed by Robert Longbottom and starred Lea Salonga. A production run 169 performances, a shortest ever run any Rodgers & Hammerstearound musical theater in Future York City. Within defending his guide to rewrite a original book, Hwang stated, "I tried to write the book that Oscar Hammerstein would have written if he were Asian-American."