Flora, the Red Menace

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Flora, the Red Menace

musical by Kander and Ebb [1965]

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Kander and Ebb
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Flora, the Red Menace (1965), the story of a department store worker whose boyfriend persuades her to join the Communist Party, marked the Broadway debut of Kander and Ebb as well as that of Liza Minnelli, who was cast in the lead through the songwriters’…
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Flora, the Red Menace (1965), the story of a department store worker whose boyfriend persuades her to join the Communist Party, marked the Broadway debut of Kander and Ebb as well as that of Liza Minnelli, who was cast in the lead through the songwriters’…
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Liza Minnelli
…as the title character in Flora, the Red Menace, the first musical by the songwriting team of John Kander and Fred Ebb. The show ran for only 87 performances, but Minnelli’s performance won her a Tony Award for best actress in a musical, and she remained the youngest winner of…
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…as the title character in Flora, the Red Menace, the first musical by the songwriting team of John Kander and Fred Ebb. The show ran for only 87 performances, but Minnelli’s performance won her a Tony Award for best actress in a musical, and she remained the youngest winner of…
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Susan Stroman
…on an Off-Broadway revival of Flora, the Red Menace. It became a cult sensation and ultimately led to further work for the pair on such shows as the New York City Opera’s production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Don Giovanni (1989) and the John Kander and Fred Ebb revue And the…
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…on an Off-Broadway revival of Flora, the Red Menace. It became a cult sensation and ultimately led to further work for the pair on such shows as the New York City Opera’s production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Don Giovanni (1989) and the John Kander and Fred Ebb revue And the…
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