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:

24 February 2009

Over a year since its six-month stint in the West End, the Menier Chocolate Factory revival of Messrs Ashman and Menken's B-movie horror spoof musical Little Shop of Horrors has hit the road.

Matthew White's production has inevitably been scaled-down and simplified for its touring incarnation, but loses none of its ludicrous camp charm in the process. Clare Buckfield comfortably slips into Sheridan Smith's ample slippers as delicate flower Audrey, while Alex Ferns has a gas in a wickedly weird turn as sadistic dentist Scrivello.

Buckfield and Ferns are the standouts in a cast that also features the ever-dependable Clive Rowe as Audrey II (the shrub with a taste for blood) and Sylvester McCoy as insecure plant shop-owner Mushnik, who still raises laughs despite (or maybe because of) his disastrous stab at an American-Jewish accent. And as his meek shop assistant-cum-amateur botanist Seymour, the aptly named Da...

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Gareth James - 26 February 2009:

This has survived the scale-up from the Menier through The Duke of Yorks to the vast New Wimbledon space very well indeed. The new cast is great and the audience clearly loved it....

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