Little Shop of Horrors - In rehearsal

Tuesday, July 23, 2013


Downtown

Where the cabs don't stop
Downtown
Where the food is slop
Downtown
Where the hop-heads flop
in the snow
Down on Skid Row


The show begins, introducing you to a cast of characters down on their luck. Seymour, a shop boy in a dead end job, with a crush on a girl who sees right through him.



Then, one seemingly normal day, everything changes for the lonely shop boy after a solar eclipse.

And when the light came back this weird plant was just sitting there,

whoop-see-doo 
just, you know, stuck in, among the zinnias.
Audrey Two. 
I coulda sworn it hadn't been there before,
but the old Chinese man sold it to me anyways,
for a dollar ninety-five. 
Sha la la, la la la, la la la loo.


The plant was different alright and it takes just a small sacrifice on Seymour's part to make him grow. Who would have guessed that a drop of blood and this plant could make dreams come true!

All the world used to hate him

Now they're startin' t'appreciate him
All because of that strange little plant
Over there


Fame, success, and even a family for our zero turned hero.


Now he is catching the eye of the girl of his dreams, if only her boyfriend wasn't in the picture. The plant is getting hungrier, maybe he can solve two problems at once... if he can find the courage.

 


Now, do it now

Just a flicker of pressure right here on the trigger

And Audrey won't have to put up that pig for another day
Now- for the girl, now- for the plant
Now- yes I will... but I can't




Suddenly Seymour is standin' beside you

You don't need no makeup, don't have to pretend

Suddenly Seymour is here to provide you
Sweet understanding 
Seymour's your friend





It would almost seem like our poor boy has a chance at happily ever after. But Act II has not even begun. Will he get the girl? How will he feed the plant? Will his new father stick by him? Will fame go to his head? We are rooting for Seymour, but the odds are stacked up against him. Come downtown to the Rose Theatre and watch the amazing spectacle that is Little Shop of Horrors, running July 26-August 2. 

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