Current Production
Our summer show for 2008 will be Little Shop of Horrors. Book and lyrics by Howard Ashman. Music by Alan Menken. Based on the film by Roger Corman. Directed by Susan Bell, Musical Direction by Robert Wicks.
The show will be performed at the Memorial Hall, Old Windsor, from 25th to 28th June 2008.
The Cast
Seymour Krelborn - Andy Sonden
Audrey - Sally Rowlandson
Mr Mushnik - John Wesson
Orin Scrivello - Michael Wood
Audrey II - Phil Portsmouth
Crystal - Vicky Lane
Ronette - Vicki Arnold
Chiffon - Sophie Juge
Patrick Martin / Bernstein - Michael Wood
Mrs Luce - Jill Dady
Radio Interviewer - John Aherne
Winos and customers - Simon Arnold, Hannah Bodilly, Julia Stickler, Stacy Rhodes
Little Shop of Horrors is a musical by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, about a nerdy florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood. The musical was based on the low-budget 1960 black comedy The Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Roger Corman. The music, composed by Menken in the style of 1960's rock and roll, doo-wop and early Motown, included several show-stoppers including "Skid Row (Downtown)," "Somewhere That's Green," and "Suddenly Seymour," as well as the title song.
Seymour Krelbourn, a florist's assistant, has his life turned around when he comes across an unusual plant after an eclipse of the sun. Naming the plant "Audrey II" after the salesgirl who is his love, Seymour tries to grow the plant, to no avail . . . until he discovers its true diet: blood. As the plant thrives, bringing Seymour fame and fortune, the two strike a Faustian pact: Audrey II agrees to attract publicity if Seymour continues feeding it. Seymour, his boss Mushnik, Audrey and her abusive dentist boyfriend are swept into the plant's evil machinations as its true motives become clear. Based on Roger Corman's film, Little Shop Of Horrors took off-Broadway by storm with its offbeat humour and the show-stealing Audrey II, whose rhythm and blues numbers never fail to bring down the house.
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