studio and counters his plea of poverty by telling him to pay her in apples. Flora rents out her studio to other artists, like a dancer named Maggie and her ex-boyfriend Kenny ("All I Need is One Good Break"). Please try again later. This series largely consists of scripts for Ebb's stage musicals, but also includes motion picture and television projects. Left alone in the studio, Flora decides to surprise Harry at his He stammers, especially when he is nervous. I had played Hunyak in the First National Tour of Kander and EbbsChicagostarring Gwen Verdon, Chita Rivera, and Jerry Orbach. By LAURENCE VITTES, The Associated Press. Outside the store, Harry tries to speak, only to heckled by the This series consists of oversized awards, one poster and one album cover. of young actors just enough money to pull together some scenery and cosumes Join StageAgent today and unlock amazing theatre resources and opportunities. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. The Fred Ebb papers are arranged in eight series: This series consists of Ebb's scrapbooks, which contain playbills and programs for Broadway, regional and international productions of Ebb shows, photographs, correspondence, press coverage, such as newspaper clippings, reviews, interviews, ticket stubs and various souvenirs of the shows. Flora returns to her studio to find she has been summoned for an interview at Garrett and Mellicks Department Store. They also wrote several songs for Scorceses New York, New York, (1977) which starred Minnelli and Robert DeNiro, including the title song, which is arguably Kander and Ebb's most famous song. We enter a small meeting hall in New York in 1935. Lyn Green was exceptional as Comrade Charlotte. The musical score is fun, poignant and challenges the actors vocal ranges. Downing a goodly belt of fortified sherry, she exhorts him to Express Yourself. of the rally Flora plans a Valentine's Day celebration with Harry. Equity/professional customers should contact the Licensing department directly at [emailprotected] to inquire about a title's availability. Fully aware of the consequences, Flora crosses Fourth-year international relations major Hannah Ross attended the show as an assignment for class and was amazed by the production of it all. Fees and availability are subject to change during the application process. The cast featured Liza Minnelli as Flora, Bob Dishy as Harry Toukarian and Cathryn Damon as Comrade Charlotte. When Flora Third-year communication major Nathaniel Challis starred alongside Friedenberg as Harry Toukarian, a fellow artist and love interest to Flora. Easily disliked. Flora, The Red Menace. 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Processed by Diana Bertolini; Machine-readable finding aid created by Diana Bertolini. / Then we meet Flora Meszaros (Liza Minnelli) who, as valedictorian of the class graduating from New York City's High School of Commercial Art, leads her classmates in an optimistic march - Unafraid. Her usual partner doesn't show up, so . The actors enjoyed playing the multitude of roles and we loved assigning them. New York, NY 10107-0102. optimism that defies the economic forecast. Permalink. She falls in she has obtained a job at Garrett and Mellick's, but Charlotte puts a This collection contains scripts, scores and production files pertaining to Ebb's musicals as well as photographs, awards, personal and business files and extensive scrapbooks Ebb kept on each of his shows and other aspects of his life and career. Flora, the Red Menace (1965), the story of a department store worker whose boyfriend convinces her to join the Communist Party, marked the Broadway debut of Kander and Ebb as well as Liza Minnelli, who was cast in the lead through the songwriters' persistent lobbying Read More Minnelli In Liza Minnelli Fees and availability are subject to change during the application process. Headstrong wannabe fashion designer Flora Meszaros is a member of an artists' co-operative of bohemian types dancers, musicians, designers struggling to find work during the Great Depression. On September 14, the lights of Broadway were dimmed in his honor. Important: Flora, The Red Menace - 1965 Buy Now Listen Synopsis It is 1933 on a street in New York as the Prologue takes place. He stammers, especially when he is nervous. This challenging feat was executed to perfection by the hardworking and talented cast. Cooper also chose "Flora" because of the relatable content of the plot and script. The score's memorable songs include A Quiet Thing, All I Need is One Good Break, The Flame, Dear Love and Sing Happy.. Another notable feature of this collection is the script series, which documents many of Ebb's shows through several drafts of extensive revisions. A photo collage featuring the cast from Flora the Red Menace. he is a Communist and persuasively asks her to join the party. Book by David ThompsonMusic by John KanderLyrics by Fred Ebb, Original Book by George Abbott and Robert Russell, Musical cultists will remember this show as the first Broadway collaboration of Kander and Ebb (composer/lyricists of Cabaret, Chicago and Kiss of the Spider Woman) as well as the Tony Award-winning debut of Liza Minnelli as Flora Mezaros. Fred Ebb (19332004) was an award-winning lyricist, librettist and director who frequently and successfully collaborated with composer John Kander. Fred Ebb shortened it he started calling me Stro, then Kander, then Scott, then Tommy. While waiting for Flora to return to the studio from her interview, Harry practices his elocution. Doug Aibel was a great dramaturge his advice and support was immeasurable. Professional customers should contact the Licensing department directly to enquire about a title's availability: [emailprotected]. Concord offers a full suite of resources to help you put on the show of a lifetime! She is touched but adamant and hands him her membership card. she'd never be committed to the party the way he is and despite their Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella (Broadway Version). Ebb's work for the theatre included Flora, The Red Menace; Cabaret; The Happy Time; Zorba; 70, Girls, 70; Chicago; The Act; Woma John Kander is a Tony, Emmy and Grammy-winning composer, a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors Award, and a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame. The cost and license availability quoted are estimates only and may differ when you apply for a license. Way up here among the clouds. I loved the work at the department, Cooper said. Even though it compromises her job in an organisation which does not recognise the new unions she seeks to hold down both job and relationship. Age-related differences discovered in the brains of people with autism spectrum disorder, Using sheep on campus as lawnmowers has multiple benefits, One-of-a-kind study explores changes in the coastal West region over past 10,000 years. Cooper, now a UC Davis professor of theater and dance, has worked as a performer, choreographer and director in several Broadway and Off-Broadway productions. Scott, Tommy, and I had a ball creating this piece at the Vineyard Theatre.Florawas our first real professional show as creatives behind the scenes. Though its success was somewhat eclipsed by that season's blockbuster, A Chorus Line, Chicago's original production, directed by Fosse, starring Gwen Verdon, Chita Rivera and Jerry Orbach had a healthy run of 936 performances and was nominated for 11 Tony awards. Despite the nearly impossible demands of the party and the deadlines Flora the Red Menace is told as though in a presentation by the Federal Theatre Project, part of the WPA established by President Roosevelt. When Flora arrives at the apartment with a real Valentine neither of them will forget. Like Cabaret and Chicago, it features a headstrong heroine and has a strong dose of political content. About. Here are some tips for talking to your professors, Yolo Arts fosters community enrichment and connections through art and educational programming, Meet the animals at the Yolo County Animal Shelter. few crates, some wooden chairs, a trunk of old clothes and an upright the evening ends abruptly for everyone. That evening, Kenny and Maggie perform the dance routine they have been She is absolutely guileless, willing to take on any challenge, without a trace of brassiness. Not Every Day of The Week - Flora, The Red Menace. FLORA MESZAROS A young fashion illustrator, full of hope, optimism, and a desire to take over the world. I couldnt believe we were going to tell the men who wrote New York, New York that we wanted to collaborate with them. On the day of the rally Flora finds Charlotte has changed the simple Garrett and Mellick's with the wrong envelope and has accidentally turned the art director at Garrett and Mellick's. They wrote backstories for their characters and perfected different accents and dialects in order to increase the authenticity of the production. Friedenberg carries the show effortlessly on vocals alone, which when paired with her impeccable comedic timing made her the ideal leading actor. Later Mr. Stanley (Robert Kaye) arrives to console Flora. 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. Floral returns to the studio just as the artists are leaving to celebrate By Kander and Ebb. Copy. Flora the Red Menace is based on the novel Love is Just Around The Corner by Lester Atwell. Harry asks her to marry him. Sporting a bright red wig and a pinstripe suit, Brubaker became the perfect antagonistic caricature. Charlotte goes Flora argues she has put other people's jobs Template:Infobox Musical 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. Licensing fees and rental materials quoted upon application. to retrieve the list of names. She personally offers to work with him on his Commentary: Why do many K-dramas have such similar storylines? 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. Flora arrives unexpectedly and, to her horror, discovers Charlotte hiding in the bathroom. store, Harry realizes she plans to cross the picket-line in order I teach my actors how to change DNA on a dime, Cooper said. In Mr. Stanleys office at Garrett and Mellicks, Flora is offered a job for the immense sum of thirty dollars a week. The first Broadway musical by the new team of Kander and Ebb, introduced them to two other collaborators who would work with them several times through the next forty years and largely shape the public's image of their work. The perfect department store executive. All the bohemian artists played various other parts, such as breadline goers, protestors, and day-to-day New Yorkers crossing picket lines. Her filling out the employment application leads her, along with the other aspirants, to sing All I Need (Is One Good Break). Fred Ebb was a lyricist and librettist for Broadway musicals and motion picture and television projects. Flora the Red Menace opened on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre on May 11, 1965, and closed on July 24, 1965, after 87 performances. Flora is confused now as she is sure that Harry is the one who cleared her, but Mr. Weiss (Joe E. Marks) and her studio friends convince her that her actions have been correct in You Are You. Flora, The Red Menace. He tosses aside his prepared remarks, speaks from the heart rally at Garrett and Mellick's into a picket-line in an act of spite. The score is consistently winning and often quite funny. WQXR Radio, Covers familiar territory with a refreshing lightness of touch. New York Magazine, Opening/Graduation Song CompanyThe Kid Herself Flora and ArtistsAll I Need Is One Good Break ArtistsIts Not Every Day of the Week Flora and HarrySign Here HarryA Quiet Thing FloraThe Flame Charlotte and CommunistsIts Not Every Day of the Week (Reprise) Flora and HarryDear Love Flora and Company, Keepin It Hot Kenny and MaggieExpress Yourself CharlotteWhere Did Everybody Go? Harry, Flora and CharlotteYou Are You Mr. Weiss, Elsa and FloraThe Joke Harry and CompanyA Quiet Thing (Reprise) WillySing Happy Flora. The show, which was directed by Hal Prince, ran 904 performances and won Tonys for its three stars, Rivera, Brent Carver and Anthony Crivello as well as for Kander and Ebbs score and the musical itself. Perusals should be used to get acquainted with the music and script. Flora the Red Menace opened at the Vineyard Theatre on December 6, 1987. still image. Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, London RADA, GBS Theatre, UK, 1992. Third-year theater and dance and English double major Charlie Lavaroni functioned as a narrator and comedic relief in the role of Willy. Im most excited for the students to relish in what they have created, Cooper said before the performance. With a new, updated book that presents a romance of charming simplicity set amidst the American communist agitation during the Depression of the 1930's, this spirited musical asks: Is Flora a red menace or just that good ol' Broadway standby a girl in love? 250 W. 57th Street Broadway's Best" production, Freud Theatre (, "Unafraid" Flora, Students and Ensemble, "All I Need is One Good Break" Flora, Harry Toukarian and Artists, "Not Every Day of the Week" Flora and Harry Toukarian, "All I Need is One Good Break" (Reprise) Flora, Elsa and The Lady, "The Flame" Comrade Ada, Harry Toukarian and Comrades, "Hello, Waves" Harry Toukarian and Flora, "Express Yourself" Comrade Charlotte and Harry Toukarian, "Comrade Charlotte's Ballet (The Tree of Life)" Comrade Charlotte, Comrade Ada, Harry Toukarian and Ensemble, "You Are You" Mr. Weiss, Elsa, Flora, Mr. Stanley, Lulu, Katie and Joe, This page was last edited on 17 March 2023, at 22:06. This tool is unavailable at the moment. I was excited by the idea, but I couldnt grasp why these two Broadway musical legends would allow these two young people take one of their shows Off-Broadway? Harry enters and tells It is 1933 on a street in New York as the Prologue takes place. Easily disliked. The Fred Ebb Papers were donated to the New York Public Library in a 2004 bequest by Fred Ebb. She falls in love with Harry, a fellow artist, whom she later discovers is a communist. At a Party meeting Flora meets Harrys comrades and hears Comrade Ada (Mary Louise Wilson), an ardent member of the Party, recount her dedicated activities in pursuit of a better world in The Flame. The musical score is fun, poignant and challenges the actors' vocal ranges. Veanne Cox played the optimistic Flora, a young artist determined to make it in New York City as a fashion designer. Sheet music. Items that could not be viewed in their entirety as placed in the scrapbooks have been moved to envelopes at the front of the scrapbooks. Scripts and rental materials are not included in this estimate. Concord Theatricals Flora the Red Menace Music by John Kander: Lyrics by Fred Ebb; Book by George Abbott & Robert Russell: Based on the novel Love Is Just Around the Corner by Lester Atwell. STANLEY Arrow Shirt Collar-perfect. one step further, calls for a rally in front of the store and declares Two years later, while applying for a job as a fashion illustrator at Garrett and Mellicks Department Store, Flora meets a strangely intense young artist named Harry Toukarian (Bob Dishy). I was in musical comedy heaven and pinching myself every day that I was in a room with Kander and Ebb. Kander and Ebb instantly clicked as friends and collaborators and their partnership proved the longest lasting composer/lyricist pairing in Broadway history. Fred Ebb (19332004) was an award-winning lyricist, librettist and director who frequently and successfully collaborated with composer John Kander. This was the first collaboration between Kander and Ebb, who later wrote Broadway and . Flora Meszaros is a headstrong individualist taking on the world by storm. [7], The 1987 off-Broadway cast recording is also available on CD.[8]. very different ways. In fact, they taught us about real collaboration in the theater. Ebb's primary collaborator throughout the 1950s was Paul Klein, though he worked with several composers, including Mary Rodgers and Charles Strouse. For 70 years, he was the director who guided such budding acting talents as Gene Kelly ("Pal Joey"), Carol Burnett ("Once Upon a Mattress") and Liza Minelli ("Flora, the Red Menace.") in his apartment by speaking with marbles in his mouth, a technique the That is one of the many reasons the directional team chose Flora and the Red Menace for the students to perform. It was also the first collaboration between composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb, who would go on to work together on award-winning titles such as Cabaret and Chicago., The Davis production was directed by Mindy Cooper and Judy Blazer, two women with decades of Broadway and theater experience. 2021, ASUCD. Rising to the occasion, Flora promises to collect names In the 20's/30's, his plays were mostly comedies, including Twentieth Century, Three Men on a Horse and Room Serv You'll have to sign in before you share your experience. Honest. Their next show, Kiss of the Spiderwoman (1993) was another triumph starring Rivera. The majority of the photographs in this collection are in the scrapbooks, so researchers should also consult Series I. 2023 Sony Music Entertainment. Division. After she rushes off, we hear The Lady (Dortha Duckworth), one of her friends who rents space in Floras studio, and Cowboy Bronco Smallwood (James Cresson) rehearsing for the Major Bowes Amateur Hour with their rendition of Palomino Pal. You'd think you'd hear a choir sing. the world. Photographer. Knowing there is no way to turn in her artwork without crossing the picket-line Scripts and rental materials are not included in this estimate. Flora the Red Menace was the duo's first show together in 1965 and also marked a 19-year-old Liza Minnelli's Broadway debut; it only played 87 performances but earned Minnelli a Tony. HARRY TOUKARIAN A shy, intense, oddly handsome artist. the line. Flora, The Red Menace. Flora that things aren't going to work out between them. 4f, 5m, Book by David ThompsonMusic by John KanderLyrics by Fred Ebb, Original Book by George Abbott and Robert Russell. Music and Lyrics by John Kander and Frank Ebb Book by David Thompson Direction by Scott Ellis Choreography by Susan Stroman Set Design by Michael Hotopp Costume Design by Lindsay W. Davis Lighting Design by Phil Monat Sound Design by Phil Lee Musical Direction by David Pogue, Vineyard Theatre Premiere:December 6, 1987 Photo Credit: Carol RoseggFull Credits: About The Artists.
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