Flora the Red Menace is a 1965 musical by Kander and Ebb starring Liza Minnelli in the title role. Minnelli won a Tony Award for her work on the show, setting a record for the time for the youngest person ever to win the award. 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ... Kander and Ebb is the songwriting team of composer John Kander, born March 18, 1927 and lyricist Fred Ebb (April 8, 1933 - September 11, 2004). ... Liza Minnelli. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater. ...
Flora invites Harry to share space at the studio and counters his plea of poverty by telling him to pay her in apples.
Flora announces she has obtained a job at Garrett and Mellick's, but Charlotte puts a damper on the excitement, pointing out that Garrett and Mellick's is not a union shop.
Flora is left alone in the studio, momentarily defeated, but determined to pick up the pieces and start again.