Little Shop Of Horrors

Synopsis

A blood sucking, flesh eating plant from outer-space called Audrey and Seymour the florists assistant provides high comedy in this cult musical. Songs such as "Feed Me" and "Who'd Be A Dentist".

Our Review:

18 December 2002

First things first: Jonathan Fensom's set for Little Shop of Horrors is, in every sense, terrific. As you walk into the larger of the West Yorkshire Playhouse's two auditoria, it towers massively to dominate everything, a brilliantly detailed evocation of Skid Row all the way up to the metro rail bridge, which is the only real sky to the bums below. A thing of great beauty in its own right, if we're truthful, Fensom's creation is way above and beyond the call of duty, since only a small proportion of it is ever used in this overblown production of an essentially small-scale musical.

Little Shop of Horrors is a spoof of those horror B-movies of the 1950s, itself based on the 1960 film of the same name by Roger Corman. His aim, apparently, was a satire on the more ludicrous sci-fi movies that were creeping onto the scene, but by turning it into a stage musical, Howard Ashman and Alan Menken blur too many edges, and in this p...

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USER: Whatsonstage.com (172.183.200.5) - 26 December 2002:

Set - fantasic! Everything else was pants! A really really big let down! I went their with high expectations being that there hasn't been a production of this show for a while! I really wanted to like this but couldn't. Credit to the actors though - they made the most of a tired script and you can't fault the plant! However, the band was way too loud and I really couldn't hear what was being sung! Don't really know what to say! Disappointing!...

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