Harry Bell
Elaine Cancilla
Art Carney
Danny Carroll
Ciya Challis
Barbara Christopher
Gordon Dilworth
Barbara Doherty
Judith Doren
Dortha Duckworth
Anthony Falco
Les Freed
Marcello Gamboa
Ellen Graff
Louis Guss
Daniel P Hannafin
Stephanie Hill
Charles Kalan
Robert Kaye
Henry le Clair
Diane Mcafee
James Mcardle
Clark Morgan
Mary Ann Niles
J Vernon Oaks
Anne C Russell
Marie Santell
Neil J Schwartz
Abbie Todd
Phyllis Wallach

Creative team

Director: George Abbott
Choreographer: Lee Theodore

Tony Awards

1 win from 2 nominations.

Recordings

2 recordings of Flora, the Red Menace exist, but none were released while this run was on. See Flora, the Red Menace for all of them.

Around this production

'The New Musical Comedy': music - by John Kander lyrics by Fred Ebb ~ book by George Abbot…

Flora the Red Menace is a musical with a book by George Abbott and Robert Russell, music by John Kander, and lyrics by Fred Ebb. The original 1965 production starred Liza Minnelli in the title role in her Broadway debut, for which she won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. The show marked the first collaboration of Kander and Ebb, who went on to write the Broadway and Hollywood hits Cabaret and Chicago. While only two numbers ("A Quiet Thing" and "Sing Happy") became notable outside the show, the score does present a valuable insight into the later work of Kander and Ebb: like Cabaret and Chicago, it features a headstrong heroine and has a strong dose of political content.

I remember some years ago looking up the unhappy Richard Rodgers/Stephen Sondheim opus Do I Hear a Waltz? There I was, suddenly faced with five pages-worth of reviews of a brief-lived tuner titled Flora, the Red Menace. More Opening Nights On Broadway Steven Suskin, p. 27

“ITS . . . SUPERMAN” CABARET ZORBA COMPANY FOLLIES A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC CANDIDE (second) PACIFIC OVERTURES REX ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY SWEENEY TODD MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG ON THE TOWN HIGH BUTTON SHOES LOOK, MA, ’M DANCIN! THAT’S THE TICKET! MISS LIBERTY CALL ME MADAM THE KING AND I TWO’S COMPANY THE PAJAMA GAME PETER P…

Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 645

Kander’s work in A Family Affair and hired Kander (and his new partner, Fred Ebb) to write their first Broadway score for his production of Flora, the Red Menace three years later.

Prince. Not Since Carrie Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops Ken Mandelbaum, p. 141

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