Flora the Red Menace

About the show

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.