Category: Musical Characters: 5 males, 4 females playing a variety of roles 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 1930's. Is Flora a red menace or just that good old Broadway stand by: a Girl in Love? Song | Flora The Red Menace by David Thompson, Paperback | Indigo Chapters