Flora the Red Menace at 1st Stage Theatre

Flora the Red Menace

1st Stage Theatre
1524 Spring Hill Road Tysons

Not even the Great Depression is enough to dampen Flora's determination to land a fashion job, that is, until she meets Harry, the stammering handsome face of the local workers' party. Suddenly life is full of choices...love, ideology or a paycheck? It will take more than picket lines to stop this sparkling story of hope and determination.

Thru - Jun 17, 2012

Fridays: 8:00pm

Saturdays: 2:00pm & 8:00pm

Sundays: 2:00pm & 7:00pm

Price: $15-$30

Show Type: Comedy/Drama

Running Time: 2 hours 30 mins with 1 intermission

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Flora the Red Menace Reviews

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Washington Post - Somewhat Recommended

"...This “Flora” may be only for the hard-core, though — or the supremely soft-hearted or Kander and Ebb completists. The gently daffy song-and-dance show, which won a 19-year-old Liza Minnelli her first Tony Award, turns out to be too much for the newish troupe to handle."

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- Nelson Pressley

DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

"... It’s not every day of the week that you get a rousing musical in depression era New York with love, dancing, communism, and fashion design, but on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays at 1st Stage you can find all of these things and more in their production of Kander and Ebb’s Flora The Red Menace."

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- Amanda Gunther

Washington Examiner - Highly Recommended

"... Director Susan Devine directs a tremendously talented group of actors, allowing them to maximize both the humor and the sadness of "Flora," whose book by David Thompson makes clear the difficulties of living in New York during the Great Depression.""

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- Barbara Mackay

ShowBizRadio - Somewhat Recommended

"...In a well-intended and generally well-executed, but ultimately futile, bit of theater archeology, 1st Stage dusts off the 1965 Kander-Ebb musical, Flora the Red Menace. The show is of genuine historical interest. It was the first produced Kander-Ebb show, preceding hits like Cabaret, Chicago, and Kiss of the Spider Woman, and it featured the Broadway debut of Liza Minelli. Despite Minelli’s Tony-winning performance, the show closed after 87 performances. From the current production, which follows a 1987 revision of the show, it is easy to understand why: the musical and dramatic material is simply quite weak."

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- Bob Ashby

DCTheatreScene - Somewhat Recommended

The cast of Flora the Red Menace is appealing in a sweet old-fashioned vein, beginning with Dani Stoller as the effervescent heroine, Flora. Stoller brings the right amount of warmth, generosity, humor and pluck to the role. She’s the hustler with a joke for everyone, a vivacious whirlwind of whoopee, a tough gal with a soft heart. She shines in brash numbers like “The Kid Herself” and draws laughs from the terrific patter songs “Last Name” and “Sign Here,” but can’t quite manage the emotion in the show’s signature songs “A Quiet Thing” and “Sing Happy.”

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- Roy Maurer

Flora the Red Menace at 1st Stage Theatre