Fly with Me (musical)

[2] Written during the first Red Scare, the show was set in 1970, in a fictional future world where Manhattan island is ruled by the Bolsheviks.

[3] Two married lovers, Mrs. Houghton and Mr. Larrimore, are intent on concealing the true identity of their children, students Emmy and Jimmy, while preventing them from falling in love with each other.

[3] The show's title, Fly with Me, refers to a technique in "Soviet lovemaking" which Mrs. Houghton teaches in the Love Laboratory of Bolsheviki University.

[3] Chinese characters Ming Ying and Tien Tong try to entrap rulebreakers by rigging a garden bench with an alarm.

[4] In attendance on opening night was Lew Fields, who immediately commissioned Rodgers and Hart to write Poor Little Ritz Girl, which premiered later that year.