struggling to find work during the Great Depression. Hoping to find a job which pays at least $15 a week, she is hired by the head of a large department store at $30. She falls in love with Harry Toukarian, another struggling designer, who attempts to convert Flora to his communist ideals. Although it compromises her job in an organization which does not recognize the new unions, she seeks to hold down both job and relationship. Complicating matters is a predatory communist matriarch, Comrade Charlotte, who wants Harry for herself, a secretary with designs on her boss, and Kenny and Maggie, a jazz dancing duo with their sights on greater things. In the end, however, Flora finds herself torn between two vastly different ideals, and has to sacrifice one or the other for true happiness. Songs Act I Prologue – Ensemble "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 "Sign Here" – Harry Toukarian "The Flame" – Comrade Ada, Harry Toukarian and Comrades "Palomino Pal" – The Lady and Cowboy "A Quiet Thing" – Flora "Hello, Waves" – Harry Toukarian and Flora "Dear Love" – Flora and Ensemble Act II "Express Yourself" – Comrade Charlotte and Harry Toukarian "Knock, Knock" – Comrade Ada and Cowboy "Comrade Charlotte's Ballet (The Tree of Life)" – Comrade Charlotte, Comrade Ada, Harry Toukarian and Ensemble "Sing Happy" – Flora "You Are You" – Mr. Weiss, Elsa, Flora, Mr. Stanley, Lulu, Katie and Joe Finale – Entire Company Recordings The original Broadway cast recording was released by RCA Victor Broadway in May 1965; a CD was released March 10, 1992. The 1987 off-Broadway cast recording is also available on CD. Awards and nominations Original Broadway production See also List of musicals: A to L References External links Synopsis at the Guide to Musical Theatre. "Marx's Revenge" Time. May 21, 1965. Review of Flora the Red Menace. 1965 musicals Broadway musicals Musicals based on novels Musicals by Kander and Ebb Liza Minnelli soundtracks Tony Award-winning musicals