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Flora the Red Menace

Kander & Ebb (1965)

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Brett Alan Dewing
Jul 30, 2025
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This is not a full review, but I felt that I owed you all a post. I’m currently in the midst of a small obsession with the 1965 musical, Flora the Red Menace, a romantic comedy about communism and the Depression…yeah.

It was the first show written by the now-famous team of John Kander and Fred Ebb, who went on to write Cabaret, Chicago, and Kiss of the S…

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