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50 Songs for 50 Years of Kander and Ebb by Andrew Kendall

In May 1965 the first Kander and Ebb musical premiered on Broadway. Flora the Red Menace, despite a lovely score, was not too long for the Great White Way. It scored a Tony for Liza Minnelli (in her Broadway debut) as the eponymous Flora, but it closed two months later " on July 24, to be exact " fifty years ago. Last month the last "original" Kander and Ebb musical, The Visit, closed on Broadway. Closings are not a …

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:15PM on July 24, 2015

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