Flora, the Red Menace
Shows · Flora, the Red Menace
During the Great Depression, naive young art school graduate Flora Mezaros struggles to find work as a fashion designer. She falls for Harry Toukarian, an earnest young man who persuades her to join the Communist Party, believing it offers hope for the working class. Flora's attempts to be both a loyal Party member and pursue her artistic dreams lead to comic misadventures as she discovers that political idealism and…
- Opened
- 1965
- Performances
- 87
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Revolution
Productions2 on Broadway
| 1965 | Alvin Theatre Original. May 11, 1965 · George Abbott | 87 performances · 1 Tony wins |
| 1987 | off Original. |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 2 albums held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
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34 passages naming Flora, the Red Menace, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Maurice Chevalier at 77, a personal appearance by Ingrid Bergman plays Saint Joan in Maxwell Anderson's play-within-a-play Joan of Lorraine (1946). the French singer, came to the AJvin in 1965, as did the Broadway debut of Liza Minnelli in an unsuccessful musical, Flora, The Red Menace, the Broadway debut of Kander and… book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p291
Flora, the Red Menace (5/11/65; 87 performances), John Kander and Fred Ebb’s first Broadway score and Liza Minnelli’s Broadway debut; book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p27
The four subsequent Abbott-authored musicals—Tenderloin (1960), Flora, the Red Menace (1965), Anya (1965), and Music Is—all failed. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p649
FLORA was the last of the Abbott-Prince shows; the old formula was becoming outmoded, and Prince decided to move on without Abbott and direct future shows himself. What was good about FLORA was the bright, funny score and Liza Minnelli, who won a Tony Award in her Broadway debut. book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p532
Scott Ellis, Susan Stroman, and David Thompson first joined together in 1987 to revise and rethink an Off Off Broadway revival of Kander and Ebb’s FLORA, THE RED MENACE [May 11, 1965]. book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p368
FLORA, THE RED MENACE [May 11, 1965], HAPPY TIME [January 18, 1968], and 70, GIRLS, 70 had enjoyable scores, while SPIDER WOMAN was startlingly artistic. book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p369
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