Cast

Synopsis

Seymour works in a less-than-successful flower shop on New York’s Skid Row with Audrey, his secret love. His life is turned around when he comes across an unusual plant after an eclipse of the sun. He tries to grow the plant, to no avail…until he discovers its true diet I As the plant thrives, bringing Seymour fame and fortune, a bargain is struck with dreadful consequences ! LITTLE SHOP is a most unusual and hugely entertaining musical.

Directors Notes

Welcome everyone to this evening’s performance of Howard Ashman’s Little Shop of Horrors. First performed in 1982 at the Orpheum Theatre in New York, it has had cult status ever since in the same mode as Return to the Forbidden Planet and of course The Rocky Horror Show. It was also made into a very successful film starring Rick Moranis and Steve Martin and has entertained people young and old ever since. Written in the same mode as a lot of the old type science fiction B movies in the sixties and seventies, it tells the story of Seymour who is given this strange plant which doesn’t eat like normal house plants do and, without giving the game away, grows quite large. The plant decides that things need to hot up a little down on tiny Skid Row and takes things into its own hands, yes the plot is a little far fetched but that is the beauty of theatre and what musicals are all about. What would we do without our Wizard of Oz or our Brigadoon? The show is not all about this tongue in cheek plot but also includes some very catchy songs, Suddenly Seymour and Somewhere That’s Green to name but two, so hopefully we will get you singing and clapping along during the evening and please feel free to join in as much as you wish because we will always need something or someone to feed to the plant as the evening progresses – only joking! So let us take you on a journey to a very unusual place, where plants don’t like to be fed with tepid water and Baby Bio but like the good things in life, raw meat and Budweiser. Intrigued and want to know more? Well eyes down and look here comes Audrey 2, but just one small thing, the next time you go to your local nursery, just be careful of that small cactus with the nice flower on it, it might be another plant with Attitude! Enjoy your theatre, we do.