Review of Little Shop of Horrors
Review of Live Theater Performance
The homecoming musical performed this year, in the Shaw Center Auditorium, was Little Shop of Horrors. Being part of the crew, gave me the opportunity to see the play grow from rehearsing on an empty stage, to what was presented on opening night. However, I only had one opportunity to seat in the audience and see the entire play on Thursday, September 19th. Not knowing much about the play before that night, I was very surprised about everything that happened. Everyone I thought was important ended up dead, and I wasn’t expecting that. But I really liked it, because it had that surprise factor that made me jump off my seat a couple of times. Also, it was well structured, making it easy to understand what led to every situation and the characters gave live to every scene making the musical exciting and funny, which kept me interested until the end.
Little shop of Horrors tells the story of Skid Road’s florist, Seymour, whose dreams of success and love for his co-worker Audrey, lead him to raise a man-eating plant, without imagining the horrifying consequences this would have. Since the very first scene it’s very easy to realize that poor and clumsy Seymour is in love with Audrey. The way he looks at her like she’s the most beautiful girl on Skid Road, how nervous he is around her, which makes him trip more than once, naming a plant after her, and how sad it makes him that she’s dating someone else, are all signs of his love for her. But being poor and unsuccessful, Seymour doesn’t believe Audrey could ever feel the same way about him. When he discovers what makes Audrey II come alive and grow, he’s willing to feed the plant his own blood at the beginning, with hopes that with all the attention the plant brings him and the shop Audrey may look at him differently. All Poor Seymour wants is for Audrey to love him and to have a purpose and be successful for once, all of which he’s slowly getting thanks to the plant. But, things get
The homecoming musical performed this year, in the Shaw Center Auditorium, was Little Shop of Horrors. Being part of the crew, gave me the opportunity to see the play grow from rehearsing on an empty stage, to what was presented on opening night. However, I only had one opportunity to seat in the audience and see the entire play on Thursday, September 19th. Not knowing much about the play before that night, I was very surprised about everything that happened. Everyone I thought was important ended up dead, and I wasn’t expecting that. But I really liked it, because it had that surprise factor that made me jump off my seat a couple of times. Also, it was well structured, making it easy to understand what led to every situation and the characters gave live to every scene making the musical exciting and funny, which kept me interested until the end.
Little shop of Horrors tells the story of Skid Road’s florist, Seymour, whose dreams of success and love for his co-worker Audrey, lead him to raise a man-eating plant, without imagining the horrifying consequences this would have. Since the very first scene it’s very easy to realize that poor and clumsy Seymour is in love with Audrey. The way he looks at her like she’s the most beautiful girl on Skid Road, how nervous he is around her, which makes him trip more than once, naming a plant after her, and how sad it makes him that she’s dating someone else, are all signs of his love for her. But being poor and unsuccessful, Seymour doesn’t believe Audrey could ever feel the same way about him. When he discovers what makes Audrey II come alive and grow, he’s willing to feed the plant his own blood at the beginning, with hopes that with all the attention the plant brings him and the shop Audrey may look at him differently. All Poor Seymour wants is for Audrey to love him and to have a purpose and be successful for once, all of which he’s slowly getting thanks to the plant. But, things get