“LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS satirizes many things: science fiction, ‘B’ movies, musical comedy itself, and even the Faust legend. There will, therefore, be a temptation to play it for camp and low-comedy. This is a great and potentially fatal mistake. The script keeps its tongue firmly in cheek, so the actors should not. Instead, they should play with simplicity, honesty, and sweetness -- even when events are at their most outlandish. The show’s individual ‘style’ will evolve naturally from the words themselves and an approach to acting and singing them that is almost child-like in its sincerity and intensity. By way of example, AUDREY poses like Fay Wray from time to time. But she does this because she’s in genuine fear and happens to see the world as her private ‘B’ movie -- not because she’s
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Book and Lyrics by Music by
HOWARD ASHMAN ALAN MENKEN
Based on the film by Roger Corman,
Screenplay by Charles Griffith
Originally Produced by the WPA Theatre (Kyle Renick, Producing Director)
Originally Produced at the Orpheum Theatre, New York City by the WPA Theatre,
David Geffen, Cameron Mackintosh and the Shubert Organization
Vocal Arrangements Orchestrations
by by
ROBERT BILLOG ROBBY MERKIN
Puppets Designed
by
MARTIN P. ROBINSON
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‘commenting’ to the audience on the silliness of her situation. Having directed the original New York production of LITTLE SHOP myself, and subsequently having seen it in many versions and even many languages, I can vouch for the fact that when LITTLE SHOP is at its most honest, it is at its funniest and most enjoyable.”
Howard Ashman
Courtesy of Music Theatre International
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