Theater
Behind the Puppet: Secrets to the Killer Plants of Little Shop of Horrors
In two major new productions, one Off Broadway in New York and one in California, the classic musical is freshening up its fatal flora.
Jonathan Groff as Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors at New York’s Westside Theatre.
Photographer: Emilio Madrid-Kuser
“I’ve given you sunlight, I’ve given you rain, looks like you’re not happy, ’less I open a vein,” sings geeky Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors, as he serenades a man-eating plant.
The same sort of painstaking doting goes into birthing the show’s scene-stealing alien botanical—named Audrey II, after Seymour’s human love interest—before a note is sung in this popular 1982 musical by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman.