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Little Shop of Horrors

In December 2019 our 2nd year Performing Arts students took part in Little Shop of Horrors, a musical where everything isn't as it seems.

'On the twenty-third day of the month of September, in an early year of a decade not too long before our own, the human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence.'

Meek flower shop assistant Seymour pines for co-worker Audrey. During a total eclipse, he discovers an unusual plant he names Audrey II, which feeds only on human flesh and blood. The growing plant attracts a great deal of business for the previously struggling store but Seymour must come up with more bodies for the increasingly bloodthirsty plant in this classic musical.

Originally Produced by the WPA Theatre (Kyle Renick, Producing Director). Originally Produced at the orphan Theatre, New York City by the WPA Theatre, David Geffen, Cameron Mackintosh and the Shubert Organization. Little Shop Of Horrors was originally Directed by Howard Ashman with Musical Staging by Edie Cowan. Vocal arrangements by Robert Billig. Orchestrations by Robby Merkin. Puppets Designed by Martin P. Robinson. Copyright © 1982 by Martin P. Robinson. All Rights Reserved.

Little Shop of Horrors was performed at Mumford Theatre on ARU's Cambridge campus.

Directed by Andrew Pritchard.

Musically Directed by Ryan Murphy.