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Hi everyone. I just wanted to talk about a musical that my high school produced recently. It's an off Broadway musical called Little Shop of Horrors, and I heard it's based off of an old 60's era, black and white, low budget, horror comedy film cliche of the same name. It's set in the 1960's in a small unsucesssful flower shop. The story starts when a nerdy employee at the flower shop named Seymore finds a strange Venus flytrap like plant. He names it Audrey II, after a women he loves who works in the flower shop. After pricking his finger on a rose thorne, he finds out the plant has a taste for human blood. The Audrey II eventually atracts custumers and makes Seymore famous. Soon the plant gets bigger and learns to talk. The Audrey II ends up eating other people, including Audrey's abusive boyfriend Orin (he has the 60's "bad boy" look with the slicked back hair and leather jacket and everything),the store owner Mr. Mushnik, and even Audrey. Seymore meets a lady who wants to take small cuttings of Audrey II and sell them to florists everywhere. Seymore realizes that that was Audrey II's plan all along. He tries to kill the giant plant, but it has become so big that it was indestructable, and ends up eating Seymore. The Do Wop Girls say that afterword, the lady sold cuttings of the Audrey II across the US and warned the audiance through song to "Don't Feed the Plants". The rest of the cast, dressed with flower petal costumes, come to the stage to take a bow. I liked the musical, but it was so sad that most of the main cast became plant food. I especially liked the 60's style musical numbers, and the acting was awsomeness!

oho yes the man eating plant that took over, im sure cybotron will comment on this.

"atoms_gf" wrote:oho yes the man eating plant that took over im sure cybotron will comment on this.

LOL! When I saw the musical I thought it might be something cybertron would like to see.

I saw the B&W version, but believe there is also a modern remake. It is not supposed to be sad, but funny.

"jeffbert" wrote:I saw the B&W version, but believe there is also a modern remake. It is not supposed to be sad, but funny.

There was a color remake in the late 80's about a few years after the musical debute. The movie version was a bit different from the musical version, a few songs and charaters were cut and/or added, and they changed the ending. Originally they wanted to use the original ending from the musical, but due to the test audiance disliking it for that, they changed the ending to be a bit more happier. Audrey and Seymore survive, Audrey II dies, and Seymore and Audrey get married and move into their dream home. But a bud of another Audrey II starts growing in their garden, possibly foreshawdowing an alien spread of Audrye II plants. :d evil:

Here's some songs I from the musical I wanted to post on here. These are from the 80's movie by the way, but they are pretty much the same songs. My school recorded the musical, and soon they will sell it on DVDs, so as soon as i buy one, I'll post the musical on YouTube.

Little Shop of Horrors theme song

Downtown (on Skid Row)

Suppertime

Suddenly Seymore

Somewhere That's Green