Little Shop Of Horrors May 2007

Little Shop of Horrors was adapted from Roger Corman's 1960 non-musical film, by composersAlan Menkin and Howard Ashman, who later went on to collaborate on Disney's The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Aladin.

The Musical Little Shop of Horrors had its world premiere an May 6 1982 at the WPA Theater, then opening off-Broadway at the Orpheum Theatre on July 27, 1982. It won many awards including the 1982-1983 New York Drama Critic Circle Award for Best Musical, the Drama Desk Award and the London Evening Standard Award for Best Musical. It closed after 2209 performaces becomming the third-longest running musical and highest- grossing production in off-Broadway history.

In this gleefully gruesome musical Seymour, a poor florist's assistant, allows his craving for fame and fortune to seduce him into playing nursemaid to a man-eating plant. Goings on surrounding the growing plant's demand for more, more, MORE are accompanied by witty parodies of sixties music. Between bites, the carnivorous Audrey II, named after Seymour's secret love, brings down the house singing rhythm and blues à la Otis Reading or James Brown!

On the 23rd Day of the Month of September in an early year of a decade not too long before our own, the human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence, and this terrifying enemy surfaced as such enemies often do in the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places.........