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Flora's Struggle in "Sing Happy"

Flora has just been fired for abandoning her communist beliefs and crossing a picket line in 1935 New York City during the Great Depression. She sings "Sing Happy" to resist the disheartening catastrophe in her life after being fired and dismissing her romance with her communist lover Harry. The song is her attempt to find optimism despite her current misfortune.

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Flora's Struggle in "Sing Happy"

Flora has just been fired for abandoning her communist beliefs and crossing a picket line in 1935 New York City during the Great Depression. She sings "Sing Happy" to resist the disheartening catastrophe in her life after being fired and dismissing her romance with her communist lover Harry. The song is her attempt to find optimism despite her current misfortune.

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SONG CONTEXT PAPER

Name: Hanako Greensmith

Information
Song Title: “Sing Happy”
Show Title: Flora the Red Menace
Composer: John Kander
Lyricist: Fred Ebb
Librettist: George Abbott and Robert Russell
Source Material: Based on the novel Love Is Just Around the Corner by Lester
Atwell

Show Circumstances
Who: Flora
When: New York City, 1935 (The Great Depression).
What: Flora has just been fired for crossing the picket line, abandoning her
recently acquired communist beliefs to save the jobs of many due to her making a
horrid mix-up in envelopes. In crossing this line, she is officially dismissing her
potential romance with her communist lover, Harry. Everything is a disheartening
catastrophe.
Why: Due to everything being such a disheartening catastrophe… She has to
resist her life’s horrors and attempt to search for a ray of sunshine in her current
misfortune.

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