Book and Lyrics by Howard Ashman
Music by Alan Menken
Based on the film by Roger Corman
Screenplay by Charles Griffith

Originally Produced by the WPA Theatre (Kyle Renick Producing Director)
Originally Produced at the Orpheum Theatre, New York City
by the WPA Theatre, David Geffen, Cameron Mackintosh
and the Shubert Organisation

Director / Choreographer: Kelly Horrigan
Musical Director: Alan Hui
Assistant Choreographer: Lana Mellish

All performances in
The Berowra Community Centre,
The Gully Road, Berowra

Enquiries: 9476 0051
Email: info@bmsi.org.au

Act I

   1960 is a difficult year for Seymour Krelbourn. Brought up by a man named Mr. Mushnik, Seymour is an orphan and an outcast. Living on urban Skid Row, he works at Mushnik's Skid Row Florist (Prologue: Little Shop of Horrors) alongside a poor battered young woman a few years older named Audrey. A combination between Fay Wray and Donna Reed, she enters the shop one morning with a black eye that her date has given her. After waiting from 9 til 5 for customers, all of Skid Tow shares their feelings (Skid Row). At closing time, Mr. Mushnik decides to close the shop to save himself from the grief of Skid Row life. But Seymour comes up with a plan to save the store. He shows the strange and interesting plant he had collected wich he has named Audrey II after his secret love for Audrey. When he puts this cross between a flytrap and avacado in the in the coffee can in the window, coustomers flock and he tells the story of how he found the Audrey II (Da-Doo), during a total eclipse of the sun.

   After staying open a few extra hours for the amazing new business and showing customers away, he offers to takes his two employees, Seymour and Audrey, out to dinner. But at the last minute, the Audrey II suddenly wilts and Seymour is commanded to stay at the shop and nurse the plant back to health. He begs the plant to grow (Grow for Me), and accidentally feeds it blood after getting poked with rose thorns. When he realizes that the blood is what the plant wants, he decides that he must feed it, but only a little, because if he is successful, perhaps Audrey will like him. For the next week, he stays up all night, poking his fingers to feed the plant (Some Fun Now). But all of this work is paying off because the plant is growing and is now the size of a basketball.

   Seymour is famous now, in his little Californian town, and has his first radio interview. When Mr. Mushnik and three street urchins, Ronnette, Chiffon, and Crystal, listen to the interview, they have a grand realization (Ya Never Know). But Audrey misses the interview because her boyfriend had her handcuffed. And she really loves Seymour but feels that she is unworthy of him because of her past.

   She dreams of Seymour and her having a family one day someplace nice (Somewhere that's Green). Mushnik's Skid Row Florist finally has money to clean up their act ("Closed for Renovation") and the Audrey II is the size of a German shepard. Audrey and Seymour are left alone and come close to revealing their true feelings for each other, but her date is almost there. So when Orin Scrivello finally arrives, he meets Ronnette, Chiffon, and Crystal. He reveals that he is a sadistic dentist (Dentist). When Audrey has gone off on Orin's motorcycle, Seymour thinks about some advice that the high Orin gave him. He is told to ditch Mr. Mushnik and to go to the big time with amazing trapped plant. Mr. Mushnik overhears this and makes a plan to adopt Seymour and therefor own the plant. He convices Seymour to join, also, as a partner in business (Mushnik and Son). But when Mr. Mushnik goes to see his lawyer for the adoption papers, the plant has an idea of it's own. It's hungry, once again, and Seymour has no blood to give it, so it talks with a voice like the devil Feed Me!)

   The plan is the kill Orin, the dentist, feed the plant, and keep Audrey for himself. Orin makes a special emergency midnight appointment for Seymour who bears a revolver. But Orin plans to operate on Seymour and enjoy it with some nitrus-oxide--for himself, not for Seymour. He puts on a special gas mask that gets stuck (Now!) and Seymour doesn't have to shoot Orin because he dies of suffocation. He feeds Orin's carcass to the plant.

   Act II

   The strange disappearance of Orin has made Audrey a free woman. And Mushnik and Son Skid Row Florist is abuzz with business. In fact, the phone calls are so great, they hang up on the customers (Call Back In the Morning).

   Afterward, Audrey starts crying. Seymour reveals his feelings for her and Audrey does the same (Suddenly, Seymour). But when Mr. Mushnik sees them together after closing, he puts pieces of the puzzle together. He knows that Seymour killed Orin, after all, he was called down to the police station for questioning. But the plant is hungry, so Seymour reluctantly feeds Mr. Mushnik to the plant (Suppertime). Now the plant is as large as a car and has two giant thorny "arms." Seymour has been offered the cover of LIFE magazine and countless other money deals. Again, he reluctantly accepts. After all, Audrey wouldn't like him if he was poor, she he thinks (The Meek Shall Inherit). One stormy night, Seymour is typing a speech and the Audrey II screams for food. What else can Seymour do but go to the butcher's shop to buy some beef. He cannot bear to feed another person to the plant. While he's gone, Audrey, who lives across the street, cant sleep (Sominex) and goes out to take a walk when she hears a voice in the shop. When she sees the plant, she is aghast. The plant wants some water (Suppertime II) and she uses the can. The plant tricks her and eats her. Seymour comes in at the last minute to save her, but she is dying. He confesses that he fed Orin and Mr. Mushnik to the plant, and that he never meant to hurt her, and she forgives him (We'll Have Tomorrow / Somewhere That's Green). He feeds Audrey to the plant. Seymour hates the plant and tries to kill it (Mean Green Mother from Outer Space). But the plant eats him, despite his attempts. The plant eats and eats and eats (Don't Feed the Plants).