Makeup Artist Monica Johnson makes sure Audrey’s black eye is visible even from the back of the theater. Orin wears leather pants and a leather jacket with a dentist’s smock. Ronnette, Crystal, and Chiffon are in skirts, t-shirts, and jackets, later wearing red sparkly dresses with feather boas. Audrey wears a tight black dress, accompanied by a black and white sling, later changing into a leopard print dress with red sash, and finishing the show in a frilly pink bathrobe and slippers. Seymour wears a blue and white striped shirt, with a gray vest and yellow bowtie. And the bigger and bigger puppets used for Audrey II look beautiful, the last one dominating the stage.Ĭostume Manager Charlene Carr and Costume Assistant Daniel Moriarty have made outfits that help reflect each character’s personality. Thanks to Production and Props Artist Helen Arguello, the body parts fed to Audrey II look good without being gory. Props Master Anna Farnan makes sure all sort of unusual items lie around the stage ready to be picked up by the cast, including a gun, an oversize bottle of rat poison, and a machete for the climatic scene. Orin’s dental office is a wall, with painful-looking instruments attached to it, including a mace, and a dentist’s chair. Trash cans are on the far right and left of the stage, and on the far left is a sleeping bag.
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These roll back to show Mushnik’s Flower Shop, with a front door and windows and a door leading to back. Outdoor scenes have two brick walls, one with a door, the other with a boarded-up window, each with its own stoop. Scenic Designer Terrence Hissong has constructed a colorful set that cleverly unfolds for various scenes. Ware gives an expressiveness to Audrey II right from the beginning, its mouth open in glee after “Grow for Me.” Mackenzie Hirth as Audrey and the cast of ‘Little Shop of Horrors.’ Photo courtesy of the US Naval Academy. He gives an urgency to the plant’s cravings. Rascoe brings the jazziness to “Git It,” while filling “Suppertime” with anticipation. They sing seductively in “Suppertime,” beckoning Gallacher from the edge of the stage.Īndre Rascoe gives a sultry, seductive feel as the voice of Audrey II, while Michael Ware expertly moves the plant’s mouth as the Plant Operator. They energetically move across the stage in “Little Shop of Horrors.” They give wonderful effects to Gallacher’s narration in “Da Do” before gliding out the shop. They attack Paris when they realize who he is. They sass Burger when he asks why they’re not in school. Maddie Reynolds, Lael Sommer, and Tiera Sterling give no-nonsense street smarts to Ronnette, Crystal, and Chiffon. He projects a dominating air when around Hirth, snapping his fingers and hurling insults at her. In “Be A Dentist,” he sings with joy of inflicting pain. In “Now (It’s Just the Gas)” he holds Gallacher in the dentist chair, tenderly stroking him while manically laughing. Even when standing still, he sways his hips.
She trembles around Orin (William Paris), quickly apologizing for interrupting him, and racing around the shop. In “Somewhere That’s Green” she wistfully sings of a suburban fantasy, a strange mix of hope with resignation. Mackenzie Hirth gives a wounded quality to Audrey.
At the end, Gallacher leaps into Burger’s arms. He comes alive in “Mushnik and Son,” falling to the ground and vocalizing before Gallacher sits on his knee. Hayden Burger captures the crankiness of Mushnik, constantly negative. After the reprise of “Somewhere That’s Green” he falls to the floor in anguish. He brings out a combination of determination and despair in the end of “Skid Row” that made this viewer a little weepy. He leaps onto the stoop in “Suddenly Seymour.” He fills “Grow for Me” with exasperation. In “Ya Never Know” he joins Ronnette, Crystal, and Chiffon (Maddie Reynolds, Lael Sommer, and Tiera Sterling) in a conga line, while keeping the plant from nibbling on them. Slightly stooped over, his first appearance onstage is to trip and drop a box. The cast of ‘Little Shop of Horrors.’ Photo courtesy of the US Naval Academy.Ĭolin Gallacher brings a physicality to Seymour. This version, directed by Brian Hissong, with musical direction by Monte Maxwell, features wonderful singing and acting, with plenty of comedy and some emotional punches. Little Shop premiered Off-Off-Broadway in 1982, and in 1986 was turned into a movie. The musical about a man-eating plant that descends from outer space and attempts to take over the world from a Skid Row flower shop features book and lyrics by Howard Ashman and music by Alan Menken. The Department of Musical Activities at the United States Naval Academy’s production of Little Shop of Horrors is a fun, fast-paced romp through a modern classic.
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