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July 10-26, 2009
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Production Footage of MTW's
Little Shop of Horrors
Behind-the-scenes with
Director Steven Glaudini
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Wardrobe Supervisor Yolanda Rowell
Behind-the-scenes with
Choreographer DJ Gray
Behind-the-scenes with
Musical Director Daniel Thomas
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Honorary Producer
Jon & Amanda Hall
Associate Producer
Universal Care
Meet the Cast of
Little Shop of Horrors
Danny Gurwin
Broadway:
Little Women
The Full Monty
The Scarlet Pimpernel
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Lowe Taylor
The Marvelous
Wonderettes
Divorce,
the Musical
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Peter Paige
Showtime:
Queer as Folk
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Stuart Pankin
HBO: Not Necessarily
the News
MTW:
Silk Stockings
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Michael A. Shepperd
Broadway:
Little Shop of Horrors
Television:
Ally McBeal
ER |
Meloney Collins
Pasadena Playhouse:
Purlie
Ray Charles Live |
Kamilah Marshall
Broadway:
Hairspray
The Lion King
Rent |
Fredericka
Meek
Television:
Passions
General Hosptal
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'Little Shop of Horrors'
at the Carpenter Center
2:00 PM, July 16, 2009
The crowd-pleasing aspects of "Little Shop of Horrors" at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center gradually bloom, despite some deforestation and weeds along the way. Alan Menken and the late Howard Ashman's evergreen 1982 musical about an extraterrestrial plant with a man-eating appetite closes Musical Theatre West's 56th season in agreeable fashion.
Adapted from Roger Corman's 1960 B-movie, the original "Little Shop" ran 2,209 performances off-Broadway, spawning Frank Oz's 1986 movie version and so many regional editions that its 2003 Broadway premiere was deemed a revival by the Tony Awards committee. Click HERE to read more...
by Steven Stanley
For a 1982 off-Broadway musical based on a no-budget black-and-white film shot in two days, Little Shop Of Horrors has come a long, long way. A London West End production opened in 1983 and a movie version was released in 1986 even as Little Shop continued to entertain off-Broadway audiences for an amazing 2,209 performances. A big stage revival finally took the show to Broadway in 2003. Few are the high schools, community theaters, and regional CLOs which haven’t staged Little Shop at least once in the past twenty-seven years. Little Shop Of Horrors is that rarity in musical theater—a show which works equally well in a tiny space and on a Broadway-sized stage, one which can delight and entertain whether performed by teenagers, amateurs, or the kind of A-List professionals now starring in Musical Theater West’s sensational big theater revival. Click HERE to read more...
Lowe Taylor (Audrey) and Danny Gurwin (Seymour) |
Little Shop of Horrors
Steven Glaudini, Director
Daniel Thomas, Musical Director
DJ Gray, Choreographer
A down-and out skid row floral assistant becomes an overnight sensation when he discovers an exotic plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood. Soon “Audrey II” grows into an ill-tempered, foul-mouthed, R&B-singing carnivore who offers him fame and fortune in exchange for feeding its growing appetite, finally revealing itself to be an alien creature poised for global domination!
One of the longest-running Off-Broadway shows of all time, this affectionate spoof of 1950s sci-fi movies has become a household name, thanks to a highly successful film version and a score by the songwriting team of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, who redefined the animated musical film with Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Beauty And The Beast and Aladdin. Charming, tuneful and hilarious, with tongue firmly planted in cheek, Little Shop Of Horrors never fails to entertain.
Meloney Collins, Frederika Meeks and Kamilah Marshall in MTW's Little Shop of Horrors
Danny Gurwin (Seymour), Stuart Pankin (Mushnik) and Lowe Taylor (Audrey).
Peter Paige as The Dentist
Audrey II (Michael A. Shepperd, voice and James Gruessing, puppeteer) and Seymour (Danny Gurwin) perform "Get It".
'Little Shop' feeds on carnivorous plant's antics
By John Farrell, Correspondent
It's feeding time for Audrey II (voiced by Michael A. Shepperd), with Seymour (Danny Gurwin) in "Little Shop of Horrors." (Photo courtesy of Ambrose Martin). Plenty of examples exist of actors chewing the scenery. We won't list them here.
There is probably only one example of an actor chewing, and digesting, all the stars in a hit musical. Audrey II, take a bow.
Audrey II is the carnivorous plant at the center of "Little Shop of Horrors," the Broadway and film musical that opened over the weekend in a production by Musical Theatre West at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach. Click HERE to read more...
That lovable mean green man-eating plant that reigned supreme in one of the longest and most popular crowd-pleasing Off Broadway musical has landed in Long Beach in a sleek, off beat, and thoroughly entertaining production since the revival touring company hit Los Angeles just a few years back directly from Broadway. Click HERE to ready more...
Quirky Sci-Fi Found in
"Little Shop of Horrors"
by James Scarborough
James Whitmore used to peddle Miracle-Gro® on TV. He vowed it would grow your tomatoes to the size of basketballs.
James Whitmore, meet “Sesame Street” and “Soylent Green” in “Little Shop of Horrors,” written by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, directed by Steven Glaudini for Musical Theatre West.
It’s rollicking fun, delightfully underplayed, and quirky, to say the least. Click HERE to read more...
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