Menier Hosts Horrors & Lippa’s Party??? Date: 24 August 2006
The Menier Chocolate Factory is developing something of a reputation for somewhat cultish American musicals. After success with UK premieres of Jonathan Larson’s Tick Tick Boom and, currently, Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years, and a high-tech reinvention of Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George (now enjoying an extended West End season), word is that the Southwark-based theatre plans to reclaim 1982’s gleefully gruesome Little Shop of Horrors as an alternative Christmas show. Alan Menken and Howard Ashman’s spoof sci-fi musical tells the story of a nerdy florist who makes a Faustian pact with a giant man-eating plant. A 1986 film version featured Rick Moranis and Steve Martin. Further ahead, in 2007, the Menier may mount yet another American musical, Andrew Lippa’s 2000 Off-Broadway hit The Wild Party. It’s not to be confused with Michael LaChiusa’s musical of the same name, which opened on Broadway the same year, based on the same 1928 poem about an evening of decadence. Ahead of any musical offerings, the Menier is in talks with 2005 Perrier nominee and faux children’s presenter Jeremy Lion about presenting his new show at the theatre this autumn.
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