The Little Shop of Horrors
admin April 24th, 2007
Last Thursday night, Afiq, Anne and I went to watch The Little Shop Of Horrors presented by The Stevens Dramatic Society right after attending the choir practice (production of Alan Mencken and Howard Ashman’s 1982 off-Broadway classic comedy). The ticket was supposed to be $1 for Stevens students, but, since I forgot to buy 1 earlier, it cost me $3 at the door. Rest assured, it’s worth every penny of it!
Almost all of the casts are choir members. I don’t really know them that much since I’m still new to choir but I got to see them every week during practices. They are very fun to be with!
The main cast, Seymour (Gus Rath ‘09) looked a lot like Harry Potter!!
The Little Shop of Horror is mainly about a florist shop at Skid Row which is almost out of business when Seymour and his co-worker, Audrey, found a new plant. Seymour named it as Audrey II. They put it at the window and instantly, the shop became famous! However, only Seymour knows that the plant feeds on blood. The plant grows bigger each passing day.
Seymour really hates Audrey’s boyfriend, a dentist (played by Paul), since the boyfriend does not respect Audrey. He yells and smacks Audrey for all it’s worth. One day, Seymour wanted to murder the dentist but end up the dentist accidentally killed himself because of laughing gas. Seymour cut up the dentist and fed it to Audrey II. Ever since the dentist’s “mysterious disappearance”, Audrey fell in love with Seymour and they became a great couple.
However, luck was not with Seymour. His employer, the owner of the Skid Row Florist, suspected him of being the murderer. The employer insisted to see inside the plant and ended up being eaten. Day by day, Seymour became a major figure because of the newfound plant.
One day, suddenly, the plant talked “Feed Me!”. Seymour got irritated. When Audrey came in, Seymour asked her to go home so that she won’t know the true nature of the plant. Then, Seymour went out to get some food for it. However, Audrey felt worried about Seymour that she came back to the shop (of course, Seymour was not there). The plant talked to Audrey and insisted her to water him. Audrey was surprised but still fetched a can of water to water the plant. However, when Audrey was not looking, they plant tried to swallow her.
Seymour came back and heard Audrey’s cries for help and punched the plant to get Audrey out of it. However, Audrey was already dying. Before she dies, she requested Seymour to feed her to the plant so that she could grow with the plant and always be with Seymour forever. When Audrey passes away, Seymour could do nothing but grants Audrey’s final wish.
However, when the biology department came to get a sample of the plant to be distributed all over America, Seymour realized the plant’s true mission. It wants to spread its species all over the world and eat all the human beings. Seymour went mad and tried to kill the plant. However, the plant had grown into a monster and could not be killed with mere pistols and knives. The plant ended up eating Seymour. The show ends with a song that warns the US citizens “Don’t feed the plant”.
The show was awesome!! One of the best that I ever enjoyed in my life =) I’ll post pictures when I have them!
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