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:

Joseph Pike - 1 October 2009

When it opened in late 2006 at the Menier Chocolate Factory – a mecca for award-winning musical revivals - Little Shop Of Horrors set London’s critical tongues wagging. Nearly three years later and it has finally reached Scotland on the requisite post-success national tour. The polish however, has sadly faded.

First produced in 1982, the musical story of a man-eating plant is based on Roger Corman’s cult 1959 B-movie of the same name. Young Seymour is working at a run-down florist in a dodgy area of town. As the owner, Mr Mushnik, is about to close-down the shop for good, Seymour discovers a venus fly-trap which soon brings them fame and fortune. But he has unwittingly signed a Faustian pact: a fact he swiftly realises as the plant starts to get hungry.

Nuances of plot are definitely not the focus here. The show’s appeal has always been the catchy rhythms of Alan Menken’s fabulously retro score, the comic characterisations and of cours...

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