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So, yeah, we saw Little Shop of Horrors last night. I give it a mixed review. I really enjoyed the first half, but I was drifting off a little in the second. (Spoilers follow)
The only actor whom I thought did anything really interesting was the woman who played Audrey; she would stretch out last syllables and give words strange accents. Leah had heard that Orin (aka the sadistic dentist) in the Broadway show was really good but last night he was played by an understudy, who (A) Didn't seem all that right for the role (he was also Seymour's understudy!) and (B) seemed to be operating at about 80%. It's a shame, the dentist is such a fun character.
The star of the show, of course, was Audrey II (designed by the Creature Shop). Halfway through, the plant was already big enough to be full-sized. But, no, in the second half, out comes this six-foot-diametered flytrap. And it was on this flexible stalk so it could bend around and "look" at different parts of the stage. In the last song, Audrey extends to full-length, some fifteen feet beyond the edge of the stage. We were sitting near the back but still jumped when that happened. However: the mouth and voice of Audrey II were synchronized quite badly, which significantly took away from the feeling that the plant was actually talking.
Oh, yeah: I was pretty surprised by how the ending was different from the film: Seymour feeding Audrey to the plant, which eventually takes over the planet.
The standing ovation has really gone through some inflation, hasn't it? Fuck that, I'm standing when I think a show is incredible. This was good, but not that.
A good night.
So, yeah, we saw Little Shop of Horrors last night. I give it a mixed review. I really enjoyed the first half, but I was drifting off a little in the second. (Spoilers follow)
The only actor whom I thought did anything really interesting was the woman who played Audrey; she would stretch out last syllables and give words strange accents. Leah had heard that Orin (aka the sadistic dentist) in the Broadway show was really good but last night he was played by an understudy, who (A) Didn't seem all that right for the role (he was also Seymour's understudy!) and (B) seemed to be operating at about 80%. It's a shame, the dentist is such a fun character.
The star of the show, of course, was Audrey II (designed by the Creature Shop). Halfway through, the plant was already big enough to be full-sized. But, no, in the second half, out comes this six-foot-diametered flytrap. And it was on this flexible stalk so it could bend around and "look" at different parts of the stage. In the last song, Audrey extends to full-length, some fifteen feet beyond the edge of the stage. We were sitting near the back but still jumped when that happened. However: the mouth and voice of Audrey II were synchronized quite badly, which significantly took away from the feeling that the plant was actually talking.
Oh, yeah: I was pretty surprised by how the ending was different from the film: Seymour feeding Audrey to the plant, which eventually takes over the planet.
The standing ovation has really gone through some inflation, hasn't it? Fuck that, I'm standing when I think a show is incredible. This was good, but not that.
A good night.
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The movie version was actually originally filmed that way. But of course test audiences hated it. The original pressing of the DVD has both endings, and unfortunately (for me at least) goes for some fairly high bucks on ebay. That was the first show I ever worked on in as a designer (in college). (The musical I mean, not the film.)