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Flora, The Red Menace

"A highly entertaining evening."

Newsday

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Description

  • Full Length Musical
  • Dramatic Comedy

  • Time Period: 1930s
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: No Special Cautions
  • Orchestra Size: Piano Only

  • Performance Group:
  • High School/Secondary, College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre
Musical cultists will remember this show as the first Broadway collaboration of Kander and Ebb as well as the Tony Award-winning debut of Liza Minnelli as Flora Mezaros. With a new, updated book that presents a romance of charming simplicity set amidst the American communist agitation during the Depression of the 1930s. Is Flora a "red menace" or just that good old Broadway stand by: a Girl in Love?

Songs include A Quiet Thing, All I Need is One Good Break, The Flame, Dear Love, and Sing Happy. From the writers Cabaret, Zorba and Chicago.
REVIEWS:

"A highly entertaining evening."

 Newsday

"Covers familiar territory with a refreshing lightness of touch."

 New York Magazine

"The score is consistently winning and often quite funny."

 WQXR Radio

Characters

  • Casting: 5M, 4F
  • Casting Attributes: Expandable casting
  • Casting Notes: Cast plays a variety of roles.

  • FLORA MESZAROS - A young fashion illustrator, full of hope, optimism, and a desire to take over the world. She is absolutely guileless, willing to take on any challenge, without a trace of brassiness.
    HARRY TOUKARIAN - A shy, intense, oddly handsome artist. He stammers, especially when he is nervous. He has a romantic vision of how to make society perfect.
    CHARLOTTE - A bit of a misfit, a party zealot, she is determined to spread Communism singlehandedly. She is dry, droll -- the quintessential comic villian.
    WILLY - Very boyish, spirited. A songwriter who plays the clarinet, Willy, in a sense, serves as the narrator of the play.
    ELSA - Extremely practical, pulled together, she has aspirations to be a fashion designer and has yet to get up the nerve to get her sketches around town.
    MR. WEISS - A former Communist who has lost his jewelry shop to the Depression, he is kindly, knowing.
    MAGGIE - Very innocent. Honest. Maggie came to New York from Oklahoma following a dust storm. She is now trying to get a break with her dance partner, Kenny.
    KENNY - Moving with Ray Bolger-like limberness and comedy, he is very serious about his dancing and determined to get ahead.
    MR. STANLEY - Arrow Shirt Collar-perfect. The perfect department store exclusive. Easily disliked.

    • Available Material

    Name Price
    Perusal Material Shipped immediately. This is optional. Order Now

    Script / Piano-Conductor's Score

    		$24.00
    Libretto This is optional. Order Now

    The LIBRETTO is available for SALE ONLY and is not available for hire as part of the Rehearsal Material set. It must be purchased separately and is available for purchase through our office.

    		$24.95
    Pre-Production Pack Shipped upon receipt of a signed License Agreement and full payment of all invoices. This is optional.

    1 x Piano/Conductor's Score

    		$75.00
    Rehearsal Material Shipped a minimum of 3 months before the last performance. This must be hired as a condition of the License to produce this show.

    10 x Piano/Conductor's Score

    		$250.00 +$75.00/pm

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