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Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre)
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A musical reimagining of the 1960 Roger Corman film The Little Shop of Horrors, made by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, which debuted in 1982, loosely adapted from Corman's film. The musical was subsequently turned into a 1986 film directed by Frank Oz.The story revolves around Mushnik's Skid Row Florists and the three people who work there: Mr. Mushnik, the proprietor, and his two assistants, Seymour and Audrey. Seymour loves Audrey, but hasn't told her because he's a poor orphan with no future to offer her. Audrey dreams of meeting a nice man who'll love her for herself, but believes it will never happen. Due to her lack of self esteem, she's willing to date a rich but thoroughly unpleasant guy, Orin Scrivello, a motorcycle-riding dentist who calls himself "the leader of the plaque."The shop is on its last legs: there's nothing in the till but cobwebs and dust. And then Seymour finds a strange and interesting plant, which he dubs the Audrey II, and persuades Mr. Mushnik to display it in the shop window. Audrey II proves to be a customer magnet: people come to look at it, and always buy something before they leave. As its fame spreads, the shop receives larger and larger commissions, and Seymour starts receiving offers for national magazine interviews, lecture tours, even his own TV show.But there's a catch: The plant thrives on human blood, and will die without it. At first, Seymour can keep it satisfied with his own blood, but as it grows larger it demands more than a person can give and live. But, you know, there's that repulsive boyfriend of Audrey's — surely nobody would miss him if he were to... disappear...The original musical was famous for its "Everybody Dies" Ending, with the moral of "Don't feed the plants" serving as a fitting metaphor for avoiding temptation, and deals that sound too good to be true. The film version follows the stage version fairly closely except for a Focus Group Ending in which the Audrey II is defeated and Seymour and Audrey survive to live happily ever after, though the originally shot and Truer to the Text ending was restored for the later Director’s Cut. It was also one of the first mainstream musicals with a rock n roll-style score that wasn't specifically composed to fit its story.note Though the movie ambiguously sets it in the early-to-mid sixties.The film version subsequently resulted in an animated series called Little Shop, created by Frank Oz, which aired in 1991. It was set in a High School, with school-aged Seymour (who's no longer an orphan and has a hypochondriac mother, much like the original 1960 film) and Audrey (who was rewritten to be Mr. Mushnik's daughter who's obsessed with becoming a firefighter) dealing with the usual sort of high school comedy plots, with the dubious assistance of a toned-down plant which was merely carnivorous rather than a "humanitarian." | |
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Canon Foreigner | |
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Canon Foreigner: Crystal, Ronette and Chiffon have no counterparts in the original movie. | |
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Tragedy | |
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Tragedy: The musical is a Greek tragedy, complete with a trio of singers who represent the Greek Chorus, and Seymour first sacrifices his enemy, then his father figure, then his love, then himself. | |
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Miracle-Gro Monster | |
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Miracle-Gro Monster: Audrey II gradually gets bigger as it gets more blood. | |
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Greedy Jew | |
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Greedy Jew: Mushnik—though, to be fair, a lot of characters want to make money off that plant. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: Seymour goes into one after Audrey's death. After he feeds her body to Audrey II, he sits in a shattered daze while the clock and lighting reveal that a whole night and morning pass. But he finally snaps out of it when Patrick Martin makes his offer to sell cuttings of Audrey II, which reveals the plant's plan for world domination. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: Than the original film, to a degree. While the original was loaded with Black Comedy, the musical manages to throw in plenty of extra angst: In the film, Seymour is a bumbling innocent who's so clumsy that he kills his victims by mistake, while in the musical he's seduced into deliberate murder by being promised fame, fortune and the girl he loves, Audrey. Additionally, while the film Seymour lived with his mother, the musical Seymour was abandoned at the Skid Row Home For Boys and taken in by Mushnik, who never liked him and treated him horribly. Skid Row is now a terrible place that everyone desperately wishes they could leave. Audrey, a happy-go-lucky ditz in the film, becomes the product of a broken home who's been in one bad relationship after another, suffers from low self-esteem, and is regularly abused by her sadistic boyfriend. She also dies in the end. The plant goes from being a somewhat sarcastic, ever-hungry presence to a Magnificent Bastard plotting world domination. Unlike the film, it's heavily implied that Audrey II will just keep getting more powerful and take over the country/world instead of being content to merely sit and munch every now and then. The dentist goes from merely being crazy to being a sadistic monster who proudly boasts about the childhood he spent murdering animals in horrific ways. | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: When Seymour first agrees to feed blood to the tiny plant: "Well, okay...as long as you don't make a habit of it or anything!" | |
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Evil Sounds Deep | |
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Evil Sounds Deep: Audrey II is typically voiced this way. | |
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Single Woman Seeks Good Man | |
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Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Audrey seems to suffer from All Girls Want Bad Boys, but in the end she prefers the sweet Seymour. | |
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Scare Chord | |
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Scare Chord: When Mr. Mushnik confronts Seymour before Suppertime about evidence linking him to Orin's murder, his words are punctuated these chords. The piano conductor score itself even titles this section "Melodramatic Chords." | |
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The Klutz | |
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The Klutz: Seymour's signature trait before the Audrey II plot takes off, at which point it disappears. (Unlike his counterpart in the original film, he's not a Lethal Klutz.) | |
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Poor Communication Kills | |
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Poor Communication Kills: We could have avoided all this if Audrey admitted her love to Seymour, or if Seymour recognized her attraction. | |
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Villain Song | |
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Villain Song: "Dentist" (where Orin describes the sadistic tendencies he had in his youth that ultimately led to him becoming a Depraved Dentist), "Feed Me" (where Audrey II demands that Seymour feed it more blood by killing people), and "Suppertime" (the first instance of which has Audrey II convince Seymour to save his own skin by feeding Mushnik to the plant, the reprise having Audrey II try to lure Audrey into being its next meal). Depending on how it's played, "Mushnik and Son". | |
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Total Eclipse of the Plot | |
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Total Eclipse of the Plot: Audrey II appears at a plant store in a solar eclipse. | |
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Deal with the Devil | |
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Deal with the Devil: Even referred to as such in the acting script — the precise wording is "pact with the devil." The introduction references the Faust legend as well. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Skid Row is now a terrible place that everyone desperately wishes they could leave. | |
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Self-Harm | |
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Self-Harm: What Seymour does in order to feed Audrey II, initially. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: | |
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As the Good Book Says... | |
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As the Good Book Says...: In the song "The Meek Shall Inherit". | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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Anachronism Stew: The 2019 Italian production is filled with this. While the opening narration states that the show is set in "an unspecified decade", the overall setting is still 60's based and dialogue features references to movies such as Sister Act, Jurassic Park and Forrest Gump. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: During "Don't Feed the Plants", the victims appear as buds to sing the song, as the ending of the 1960 film. Mrs. Shiva is referenced, but not seen. She still needs plenty of funeral lilies. In the 1960 film, Mushnik disposes of a robber by telling him that the shop's takings are kept inside the Audrey plant and letting him get eaten when he climbs in to retrieve them. In the musical, this is the method Seymour uses to dispose of Mushnik. Audrey mentions a big order for the Rose Bowl during "Call Back In The Morning". In the 1960 film, a large order for the Rose Bowl after Audrey Jr.’s unveiling is what convinces Mushnik to keep Seymour employed. | |
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Oblivious to Love | |
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Oblivious to Love: For a good part of the show, Seymour and Audrey are oblivious to each other's love. Each admires the other excessively and has about zero self-esteem. Deconstructed, as Seymour refuses to stop feeding the plant because he fears Audrey would stop caring about him if he was broke again which leads to their deaths. | |
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The Ingenue | |
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The Ingenue: Audrey (the human) | |
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The Bad Guy Wins | |
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The Bad Guy Wins: The plant's growing fame results in a distribution deal that will put cuttings of Audrey II in homes all over the country. Seymour belatedly realizes that this is what Audrey II was after all along, and attempts to kill the plant before the distributor arrives to take the cuttings. He fails utterly, dying in the attempt, and the distribution goes ahead. | |
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Depraved Bisexual | |
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Depraved Bisexual: No matter what its gender, Audrey II acts rather seductively toward both Seymour and Audrey. Orin also gets off on tormenting others, be they man or woman. | |
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Scary Black Man | |
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Scary Black Man: Audrey II is often voiced by an African American actor. | |
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Shipper on Deck | |
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Shipper on Deck: Crystal, Ronette, Chiffon, and Audrey II for Seymour/Audrey. | |
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Money Song | |
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Money Song: Since money is a huge part of the plot, it's inevitable that some songs would revolve, at least partially, around it. Probably the best example is Mushnik's intro to "Ya Never Know". | |
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Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds | |
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Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: Audrey. Her dying words make humanity's salvation impossible. | |
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Murder the Hypotenuse | |
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Murder the Hypotenuse: While Seymour is compelled to do away with Orin because of how terribly he treats Audrey, reasoning that she'd be better off without him and his abuse, Mushnik jumps to the conclusion that Seymour killed Orin so he could move in on Audrey. | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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Actor Allusion: In the 2019 Italian production, the mention of I Love Lucy in "Somewhere That's Green" is replaced with Sister Act. The actress playing Audrey, Belia Martin, played Deloris in the Spanish and Italian versions of the musical adaptation of Sister Act. | |
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G-Rated Drug | |
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G-Rated Drug: PG-Rated, not very. | |
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SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: While there is a hint of a idealism feel near the beginning, it becomes quite cynical by the end. | |
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Hell-Bent for Leather | |
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Hell-Bent for Leather: Orin wears a black leather jacket. The acting script calls for an insignia of a bleeding tooth across the back. | |
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| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_3d2c6d30 | type |
Skewed Priorities | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_3d2c6d30 | comment |
Skewed Priorities: Seymour berates his now-famous plant for eating Audrey and decides to try to destroy it. When does that happen, you ask? Right after the plant has revealed that it's actually a monster from outer space with plans to overthrow the entire human race! | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_3d2c6d30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_3d2c6d30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_3d2c6d30 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_3d4d3dc9 | type |
Humans Are Bastards | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_3d4d3dc9 | comment |
Humans Are Bastards: After we're treated to a seemingly nice and lovable guy getting seduced into repeat murder, the ending song tells us that the plants are doing the same thing all across America, offering "unsuspecting jerks" their wildest dreams in exchange for blood. The message of "Don't Feed The Plants" is obvious—with the right motivation, anyone could kill people to feed a plant. Including you. | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_3d4d3dc9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_3d4d3dc9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_3d4d3dc9 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_3d7b1b61 | type |
Twice Shy | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_3d7b1b61 | comment |
Twice Shy: Seymour and Audrey. | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_3d7b1b61 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_3d7b1b61 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_3d7b1b61 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_3e0a0709 | type |
Fur and Loathing | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_3e0a0709 | comment |
Fur and Loathing: Stage directions indicate that the rather creepy Mrs. Luce wears a fox fur coat. | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_3e0a0709 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_3e0a0709 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_3e0a0709 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_40c57041 | type |
Manipulative Bastard | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_40c57041 | comment |
Manipulative Bastard: Audrey II. | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_40c57041 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_40c57041 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_40c57041 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_41d5f145 | type |
Fluffy the Terrible | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_41d5f145 | comment |
Fluffy the Terrible: The name of the evil plant whose main goal is to devour all of mankind and conquer Earth? Audrey II. | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_41d5f145 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_41d5f145 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_41d5f145 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4510b368 | type |
Ambiguous Gender | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4510b368 | comment |
Ambiguous Gender: Audrey II—a plant who acts and sounds male (although casting has often gone both ways in numerous productions). (Admittedly, when Seymour states that "the Audrey II is not a healthy girl", the Audrey II hasn't revealed itself as sentient yet, so he's speaking pretty loosely.) | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4510b368 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4510b368 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4510b368 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4781adbb | type |
Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4781adbb | comment |
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Mr. Mushinik, who cares somewhat for Seymour (though more for money) and for Audrey, who he constantly advises to drop her abusive boyfriend. | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4781adbb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4781adbb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4781adbb | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_48c24da4 | type |
Significant Double Casting | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_48c24da4 | comment |
Significant Double Casting: In the 2016 Australian production, there isn't a separate voice actor for Audrey II, which instead is voiced by the actors of the characters it's eaten. This means that it speaks with the Voice of the Legion toward the end — and that in all the early arguments with Seymour, when Audrey II hasn't had a taste of anyone else yet, the actor playing Seymour is speaking and singing both sides of the argument. | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_48c24da4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_48c24da4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_48c24da4 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_48c99e19 | type |
Death by Adaptation | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_48c99e19 | comment |
Death by Adaptation: Mushnik and Audrey don't die in the original movie. | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_48c99e19 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_48c99e19 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_48c99e19 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4a879f41 | type |
Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu? | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4a879f41 | comment |
Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: Seymour's relationship with the plant, especially in "Feed Me (Git It)". | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4a879f41 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4a879f41 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4a879f41 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4ae67a53 | type |
Laughing Gas | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4ae67a53 | comment |
Laughing Gas: Has the song "Now (It's Just The Gas)", in which a dentist goes Laughing Mad due to an overdose on laughing gas, before he eventually suffocates on it. | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4ae67a53 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4ae67a53 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4ae67a53 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4ae690ca | type |
Laughing Mad | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4ae690ca | comment |
Laughing Mad: Dr. Orin Scrivello during Seymour's dental exam. Admittedly, it was due to a fatal overdose of laughing gas. | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4ae690ca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4ae690ca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4ae690ca | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4b316d47 | type |
Break the Cutie | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4b316d47 | comment |
Break the Cutie: Seymour. Audrey was broken long before the musical started. | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4b316d47 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4b316d47 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4b316d47 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4c3f14e0 | type |
You Are Too Late | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4c3f14e0 | comment |
You Are Too Late: "Don't Feed The Plants" informs us humanity is screwed. All of it. | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4c3f14e0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4c3f14e0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4c3f14e0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4e3d253b | type |
Downer Ending | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4e3d253b | comment |
Downer Ending: Audrey, Seymour, Mr. Musnik, and Orin all get eaten. (Okay, so Orin wasn't that big of a loss, but still.) Oh, and Audrey II succeeds in its plans for world conquest, and the distribution plan results in thousands of people getting sweet-talked by tiny Audrey II plants into feeding them blood. The show ends with a now monstrously huge Audrey II leaping towards the audience. There's exactly one ray of hope in the ending; the line, "If we fight it, we've still got a chance." | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4e3d253b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_4e3d253b | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_510e5a9 | type |
Sassy Black Woman | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_510e5a9 | comment |
Sassy Black Woman: Three of them, in the form of Crystal, Ronette, and Chiffon, who also function as the show's Greek Chorus. | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_510e5a9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_510e5a9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_510e5a9 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_55c72164 | type |
Death Song | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_55c72164 | comment |
Death Song: "Now (It's Just The Gas)" for Orin and "Somewhere That's Green Reprise" for Audrey. | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_55c72164 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_55c72164 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_55c72164 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_590eb583 | type |
Domestic Abuse | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_590eb583 | comment |
Domestic Abuse: Audrey's boyfriend Orin Scrivello is a "semi-" sadist. | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_590eb583 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_590eb583 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_590eb583 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_5a40d6a | type |
Adaptation Distillation | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_5a40d6a | comment |
Adaptation Distillation: The musical jettisons several incidental characters, tightens the plot and gives Seymour's struggle with the carnivorous Audrey II a proper narrative arc. | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_5a40d6a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_5a40d6a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_5a40d6a | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_5a62e8d0 | type |
SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_5a62e8d0 | comment |
Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror: Comedy-dominant, though the line definitely gets blurred. | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_5a62e8d0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_5a62e8d0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_5a62e8d0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_5c300c3b | type |
The Berserker | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_5c300c3b | comment |
The Berserker: Seymour in the final scene. Once Twoey's true intentions are revealed, Seymour goes wild and tries killing it in a furious rage. He fails. | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_5c300c3b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_5c300c3b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_5c300c3b | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_5cb3f622 | type |
Doo-Wop Progression | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_5cb3f622 | comment |
Doo-Wop Progression: The chorus of "Dentist". Appropriate, given the time era. | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_5cb3f622 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_5cb3f622 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_5cb3f622 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_5fe1360d | type |
Audience Participation Song | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_5fe1360d | comment |
Audience Participation Song: "Dentist!" ends by becoming this. "Say ahhhhh!" "Ahhhhh!" | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_5fe1360d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_5fe1360d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_5fe1360d | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_6448ac10 | type |
Did You Get a New Haircut? | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_6448ac10 | comment |
Did You Get a New Haircut?: "Is that new eye makeup?" | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_6448ac10 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_6448ac10 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_6448ac10 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_646407bd | type |
We Named the Monkey "Jack" | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_646407bd | comment |
We Named the Monkey "Jack": Seymour names the plant after Audrey. It's meant to be in a nice way, as he first believes the plant is a previously undiscovered (terrestrial) breed. | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_646407bd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_646407bd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_646407bd | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_65acf9db | type |
He Knows Too Much | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_65acf9db | comment |
He Knows Too Much: Seymour's reason for killing Mushnik, with prodding from Audrey II ("Suppertime"), who himself, still needed Seymour. | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_65acf9db | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_65acf9db | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_65acf9db | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_66b98472 | type |
Erotic Dream | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_66b98472 | comment |
Erotic Dream: In the 2009 UK tour, the plant sleeps at one point and says "Yeah, baby. You make my stems all wooded." | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_66b98472 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_66b98472 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_66b98472 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_68068108 | type |
Evil Laugh | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_68068108 | comment |
Evil Laugh: Audrey II. Orin on Nitrous oxide. | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_68068108 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_68068108 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_68068108 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_69cc2a27 | type |
Hilariously Abusive Childhood | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_69cc2a27 | comment |
Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Seymour was an orphan and was taken advantage of for a roof over his head. | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_69cc2a27 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_69cc2a27 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_69cc2a27 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_69dfa613 | type |
Cephalothorax | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_69dfa613 | comment |
Cephalothorax: Audrey II is just a big head on a stalk. | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_69dfa613 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_69dfa613 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_69dfa613 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_6b2b3b59 | type |
The Reveal | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_6b2b3b59 | comment |
The Reveal: "...Bigger than Hula-Hoops?" "Much bigger!" | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_6b2b3b59 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_6b2b3b59 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_6b2b3b59 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: The dentist: Orin ("oral") Scrivello (a type of elephant tusk). | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_6bda9a30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_6bda9a30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_6bda9a30 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_6d41b8da | type |
Fantastic Aesop | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_6d41b8da | comment |
Fantastic Aesop: "Don't Feed the Plants"- it could lead to the destruction of humanity. | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_6d41b8da | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_6d41b8da | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_6d41b8da | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_7215c26c | type |
Man-Eating Plant | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_7215c26c | comment |
Man-Eating Plant: Features perhaps the most famous of these as its main antagonist. | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_7215c26c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_7215c26c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_7215c26c | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_7286e96d | type |
Idiot Ball | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_7286e96d | comment |
Idiot Ball: After killing Orin, Seymour indulges in what has to rank among the worst murder coverups in the history of fiction. He leaves his baseball cap and his bag at the scene of the crime (the bag, by the way, has the name of the shop on it), stuffs Orin's uniform in the trash can outside the shop, and doesn't even bother to clean up the blood he spilled on the shop floor. When questioned about it, he says, "I spilled some Hawaiian Punch and it stained." | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_7286e96d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_7286e96d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_7286e96d | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_73f79f91 | type |
Released to Elsewhere | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_73f79f91 | comment |
Released to Elsewhere: After Mushnik is killed, Seymour claims he is visiting his sister in Czechoslovakia. | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_73f79f91 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_73f79f91 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_73f79f91 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_77b009ea | type |
Phrase Catcher | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_77b009ea | comment |
Phrase Catcher: The fact that Audrey II is a "strange and interesting plant" is repeated by no fewer than five characters in the scene where Seymour puts it in Mushnik's display window. Strange and interesting indeed. | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_77b009ea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_77b009ea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_77b009ea | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_787c6068 | type |
My Significance Sense Is Tingling | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_787c6068 | comment |
My Significance Sense Is Tingling: "Sominex/Suppertime II" | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_787c6068 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_787c6068 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_787c6068 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_78e8eba5 | type |
"I Am" Song | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_78e8eba5 | comment |
"I Am" Song: "I am your dentist, and I enjoy the career that I picked!" | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_78e8eba5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_78e8eba5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_78e8eba5 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_7c9933de | type |
Laughably Evil | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_7c9933de | comment |
Laughably Evil: Orin, Audrey II, and (depending on how he's played) Mushnik. | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_7c9933de | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_7c9933de | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_7c9933de | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_7e345221 | type |
Snowball Lie | |
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Snowball Lie: Thanks to Seymour not telling anyone his "gardening secret" for Audrey Jr./Audrey II: human blood. Must be fresh. | |
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"I Want" Song | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_8338de89 | comment |
"I Want" Song: "Somewhere That's Green", where Audrey speaks of her desire to settle down with Seymour and have a family. As well as its Dark Reprise and the villainous version in "Feed Me" (where Audrey II persuades Seymour to kill people to keep it fed). "Skid Row" (where Seymour expresses a desire to get out of Skid Row), "Grow For Me" (where Seymour begs Audrey II to start growing), and "Mushnik and Son" (where Mushnik wants to adopt Seymour as his son to have a piece of the pie upon learning of his success with Audrey II) also qualify—and, to a lesser degree, "Now (It's Just The Gas)" (where Orin pleads for his life while suffocating on nitrous oxide) and "The Meek Shall Inherit" (where Seymour is torn between destroying Audrey II or continuing to feed the carnivorous plant for his own ends). | |
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| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_84d29a11 | type |
Drag Queen | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_84d29a11 | comment |
Drag Queen: The Berkshire Theatre Group's production reinvents Audrey II as a drag queen◊ (voiced by an offstage actress) instead of a puppet, adding a new, seductive layer to its relationship with Seymour. The 2018 London production at Regent's Park has an actual drag queen as Vicky Vox plays Audrey II in a mix of puppetry and on-stage performance. The 2019 Italian production also features a drag queen as Audrey II. | |
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Badass Biker | |
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Badass Biker: Orin Scrivello rides a motorcycle and wears a black leather jacket with a dental-themed biker logo on it. | |
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World of Ham | |
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World of Ham | |
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| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_87629455 | type |
No Communities Were Harmed | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_87629455 | comment |
No Communities Were Harmed: Manhattan in the 60s Downtown south of 14th Skid Row. | |
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| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_88472ef3 | type |
Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_88472ef3 | comment |
Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: | |
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| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_8aa0f76 | type |
Deconstructed Trope | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_8aa0f76 | comment |
Deconstructed, as Seymour refuses to stop feeding the plant because he fears Audrey would stop caring about him if he was broke again which leads to their deaths. | |
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| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_8ac8045 | type |
Burp of Finality | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_8ac8045 | comment |
Burp of Finality: After Seymour climbs into Audrey II's mouth to kill it from the inside, his attempt failing is telegraphed when Audrey II burps after eating him. Most versions even have Audrey II spit out the machete for good measure. | |
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There Is No Kill Like Overkill | |
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There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Justified when Seymour tries it, because all his weapons can't kill the plant anyway. | |
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Capitalism Is Bad | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_8b60a09b | comment |
Capitalism Is Bad: Word of God [1] states that this was their intention writing the show. | |
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Dumb Blonde | |
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Dumb Blonde: Audrey. | |
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| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_8e575f83 | type |
Villain Recruitment Song | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_8e575f83 | comment |
Villain Recruitment Song: "Mushnik and Son" has Mushnik ask Seymour to be his adopted son, which is followed immediately by "Feed Me (Git It)", where Audrey II persuades Seymour to kill people to provide more blood for the plant to feed on. | |
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| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_90d44f44 | type |
Karmic Death | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_90d44f44 | comment |
Seymour, eaten by his own giant plant, and Orin, who asphyxiates when the laughing gas mask gets stuck. In the stage show, Mushnik plays with this- he worries about money to the point of adopting Seymour just to keep the plant, and Seymour tells him he put the day's earnings in the plant during Suppertime, but considering A) how the shop had been doing before Audrey II, and B) the fact that it's apparently over a thousand dollars, his concern is more or less justified. Audrey is the only victim who doesn't really have a Karmic Death. | |
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| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_910e1023 | type |
Lacerating Love Language | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_910e1023 | comment |
Lacerating Love Language: A cut song, "The Worse He Treats Me", would have discussed and parodied this trope, as Audrey discusses her relationship with her abusive boyfriend Orin, taking his beatings as a sign of love. The song was meant to show more of Audrey's self-loathing mindset than Orin's actual affection, but the writers realized the song was in poor taste regardless and cut it. | |
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Major Injury Underreaction | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_91cab736 | comment |
Major Injury Underreaction: Subverted after Audrey has been attacked by the plant - some productions have her come out of the plant's mouth smiling and feeling fine, only to collapse moments later as she begins to die. | |
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| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_91e894b4 | type |
Apocalypse How | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_91e894b4 | comment |
Apocalypse How: By the end, it's heading toward Class 3a: Planetary-scale extinction of the dominant species on the planet, assuming Audrey II and its offspring are never defeated. At minimum, it's a Class 0, with man-eating plant monsters rampaging across all of America. | |
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_928ca2cc | comment |
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Audrey II has no qualms about eating Seymour after his plans get enough momentum to go on without him. | |
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B-Movie | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_95864e13 | comment |
B-Movie: A parody thereof. | |
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| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_9591377d | type |
Heel Realization | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_9591377d | comment |
Heel Realization: Seymour with the following line: | |
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| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_95b7c400 | type |
Faux Affably Evil | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_95b7c400 | comment |
Faux Affably Evil: Audrey II sweet talks Seymour into getting what they want even though it is blood. Orin doesn't even pretend to be nice to Audrey, but he acts friendly toward Seymour. | |
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| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_95dec9d2 | type |
Plant Aliens | |
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Plant Aliens | |
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| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_970c790a | type |
Big Bad | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_970c790a | comment |
Big Bad: Audrey II, the manipulative Man-Eating Plant who sweet-talks Seymour into feeding it people. | |
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| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_985d3ad0 | type |
Cross-Cast Role | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_985d3ad0 | comment |
Crosscast Role: Mrs. Luce, usually, since the tradition is for all the characters who offer Seymour fame and fortune to be played by a single (male) actor. | |
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| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_98f19e68 | type |
Our Founder | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_98f19e68 | comment |
Our Founder: A picture of Mr. Mushnik with the caption "Our Founder" appears in the shop in the scene following "The Meek Shall Inherit." | |
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Screen-to-Stage Adaptation | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_99244825 | comment |
Screen-to-Stage Adaptation | |
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| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: Orin tells Seymour "somebody'd make you a goddam[sic] partner to get their hands on this," referring to Audrey II. The song after this scene, Mushnik and Son, has Mushnik convince Seymour to be his son so he can keep Seymour and the profits from the plant in the shop. Mushnik offers to make Seymour a partner: "Mushnik and son/sounds great/three words with the ring of fate/so say you'll incorporate with me." We find out Mushnik's shop was renamed to Mushnik and Son when Audrey and Seymour field calls in Call Back in the Morning - "Mushnik and Son, Skid Row's Favorite Florists, can you hold?" | |
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| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_9dacc566 | type |
Leitmotif | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_9dacc566 | comment |
Leit Motif: Quite a few. Just to name one example, the tune to Mushnik And Son appears three times, not counting in the song itself. | |
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| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_9fe35833 | type |
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_9fe35833 | comment |
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Orin. | |
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| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_a16d511d | type |
Insecure Love Interest | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_a16d511d | comment |
Insecure Love Interest: This is why Audrey doesn't consider leaving the abusive "semi-sadist" Orin for her Nice Guy coworker Seymour; she likes Seymour, but she considers herself too dirty and worthless to be with him. For his part, Seymour is convinced that he's not good enough for Audrey. When he finally realizes that she loves him back, he assumes that it's because he now has money and believes that he'll lose her if he loses his income from the plant. Tragedy ensues. | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_a1b141f4 | comment |
My God, What Have I Done?: Seymour has at least two of these moments during the plot: Following Mushnik's death (complete with a Dark Reprise of "Mushnik and Son" to hammer the mood home). And again after he discovers the true extent of Audrey II's plan's - world domination. | |
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Killed Mid-Sentence | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_a2022cc9 | comment |
Killed Mid-Sentence: Orin. | |
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Paparazzi | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_a31c79f3 | comment |
Paparazzi: Mrs. Luce wants a photo of Seymour with the plant for the cover of Life Magazine. | |
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Adaptation Dye-Job | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_a4414a05 | comment |
Adaptation Dye-Job: Audrey is traditionally platinum blonde (the acting script refers to her as such). In the original film, she was brunette. | |
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| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_a4c37cbe | type |
Mood Whiplash | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: Aplenty. The show blurs the line between comedy and horror to a remarkable degree. Seymour agonizing after killing Mushnik is interrupted almost immediately by the arrival of Crystal, Ronette and Chiffon, who are ecstatic after seeing Seymour on the news. | |
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Gender-Blender Name | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_a536f3a3 | comment |
Gender-Blender Name: Audrey II has a feminine name but is traditionally played by a male actor (traditionally a baritone or bass) and has a masculine personality. Being a plant, and probably an alien, it's anybody's guess what gender Audrey II really is - if any. | |
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| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_a6bd0685 | type |
Died in Your Arms Tonight | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_a6bd0685 | comment |
Died in Your Arms Tonight: Audrey, in Seymour's arms. | |
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Unlucky Everydude | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_a6d16723 | comment |
Unlucky Everydude: Seymour could be seen as a Deconstruction. He fits the description perfectly until Audrey dies. | |
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Classical Anti-Hero | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_a7055a94 | comment |
Classical Anti-Hero: Seymour, who kills his foe, kills his father figure, kills his lover, then kills himself - all unnecessarily because Poor Communication Kills - all keeping in line with classic Greek tragedy! | |
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Wife-Basher Basher | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_a89efdf8 | comment |
Wife-Basher Basher: Seymour. He plans to ignore the plant and not feed it anything—until Orin abuses Audrey right in front of him. Audrey II is fully aware that this is Seymour's Berserk Button. | |
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And I Must Scream | |
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And I Must Scream: This is ostensibly the ultimate fate of Audrey II's victims — their faces become embedded in the centers of the plant's flowers. It's shown in the finale that the faces can only move and sing (or not, if you take their lines in "Don't Feed The Plants" to be an inner monologue), but appear to be alive and conscious as part of the plant. Since Audrey II and its descendants are nigh-indestructible by the end of the show, their chances of dying a true, merciful death at that point are next to nil. | |
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Dramatic Irony | |
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Dramatic Irony: Seymour complains about how he has to keep feeding Audrey II, and Audrey (number I) wonders why he's so upset about the cost of plant food. More tragically, Audrey II persuades Seymour to commit murder by promising him Audrey's heart, and Seymour continues with the killings even after the cost has become obvious because he believes Audrey, along with the fame and the fortune, are Audrey II's gifts to him, and she would leave him if the fame and fortune did. "Somewhere That's Green" makes it clear to the audience that Audrey loved the poor sap long before he ever found the plant. | |
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Eaten Alive | |
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Eaten Alive: Musnik and Seymour. | |
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Die Laughing | |
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Die Laughing: "Now (It's Just The Gas)". | |
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What You Are in the Dark | |
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What You Are in the Dark: Seymour fails this in a big way. And "The Meek Shall Inherit" stresses this, when he sings that "Even though I'll be poor and unemployed / The vegetable must be destroyed", but then changes his mind when he thinks about Audrey. | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For: All over the place, but moreso in the ending; The play ends with the victims of Audrey II (in the form of the flowers with their faces on them) begging the audience to 'not feed the plants' and give into the promises of fame and fortune in exchange for blood of those around them, like Seymour did when he fed people to Audrey II for his own chance at fame and, in his case, love for the original Audrey. | |
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Extreme Doormat | |
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Extreme Doormat: Seymour, and to a lesser extent Audrey put up with Mushnik's abuse and insults. | |
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Sadist | |
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Sadist: Orin Scrivello is even called the Marquis de Sade in "Dentist!" It's arguable whether Audrey II also counts, given it's an alien. | |
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Everyone Has Standards | |
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Everyone Has Standards: Mushnik is a very Bad Boss, but he's appalled by Dr. Schrivello's abuse of Audrey. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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Too Dumb to Live: When Mushnik discovers Seymour killed Orin, Seymour tells Mushnik that he put the day's profits inside the plant for safekeeping and tells him to climb inside of it and get it. He does so and gets eaten. And later, when Seymour discovers Audrey II's true intentions for world domination, he climbs inside its mouth with a machete to try and kill it from the inside... and gets eaten. | |
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Mundane Luxury | |
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Mundane Luxury: Audrey's greatest dream is to live in a small house in the suburbs, with some "fancy" appliances like a toaster, and a twelve-inch screen TV, and a garden, with a man who genuinely loves her. It's funny in a sad sort of way the first time you watch it, but after getting a look at Audrey's relationship with Orin, and further insight into her background in Act Two... Suddenly, it's not even slightly funny anymore. | |
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Terms of Endangerment | |
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Terms of Endangerment: Several examples: Orin calls Seymour "stud". In "The Meek Shall Inherit", Bernstein, Mrs. Luce and Skip Snip address Seymour with increasingly uncomfortable pet names ("dollface", "my sweet, sweet thing", and "pussycat", to name a few). Audrey II flirts with the human Audrey moments before attempting to eat her. | |
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To Serve Man | |
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To Serve Man | |
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I Have You Now, My Pretty | |
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Audrey II flirts with the human Audrey moments before attempting to eat her. | |
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Bait-and-Switch Comment | |
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Bait-and-Switch Comment: When Audrey talks about her past with Orin: | |
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Murder by Inaction | |
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Murder by Inaction: Seymour tries to shoot Orin the Depraved Dentist, but can't bring himself to. Moments later, Orin gets himself high inside a mask full of gas, but finds he can't get it off and begs Seymour to help him get it off (while he laughs maniacally.) Seymour just stands by and watches Orin suffocate. | |
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I Lied | |
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I Lied: No shit, Sherlock! | |
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Hope Spot | |
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Hope Spot: There are quite a few moments when it looks as if Seymour's going to kill the plant, but he never does. | |
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TheyCallMeMrTibbs | |
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They Call Me Mr Tibbs: Orin insists that Audrey call him "Doctor" and use the term "D.D.S." when referring to him. It's implied that he's beaten her for neglecting to do so ("You gotta train 'em, eh, stud?"). | |
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Nice Guy | |
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This is why Audrey doesn't consider leaving the abusive "semi-sadist" Orin for her Nice Guy coworker Seymour; she likes Seymour, but she considers herself too dirty and worthless to be with him. | |
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Insecure Protagonist, Arrogant Antagonist | |
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Insecure Protagonist, Arrogant Antagonist: Seymour is a shy self-proclaimed slob whose lack of low self-esteem gets lampshaded by Audrey (who is also deeply insecure, believing she doesn't deserve goodness in life). The main antagonist, Audrey Two, is a smooth-talking, self-assured mutant plant who manipulates Seymour's insecurity so it can feed on blood, and in the movie gets a Villain Song boasting about how powerful it is. Audrey's abusive boyfriend Orin is a lesser antagonist, but is even more blatantly arrogant, frequently bragging about his wealth and success and always putting down Audrey for not meeting his standards. | |
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Tragic Dropout | |
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Tragic Dropout: The Urchins, Chiffon, Crystal, and Ronnette, are stated to have stopped going to school after fifth grade, and are thus trapped on Skid Row. Seymour also states that he "never even finished grade school". | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The three urchins are named for three different girl groups of the sixties (The Crystals, The Ronettes and The Chiffons). The songs reference and parody the sixties music scene, both lyrically and stylistically. This blog has a pretty comprehensive overview. | |
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Description Cut | |
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Description Cut: "What kind of 'professional' rides a motorcycle and wears a black leather jacket?" Enter Orin Scrivello, D.D.S. | |
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And You Were There | |
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And You Were There: After Audrey II starts growing, Seymour is approached by a series of people offering him fame and fortune (three in the musical number "The Meek Shall Inherit", and one more in the final scene); all four are played by a single actor. The same actor also plays the plant's first victim. (As well as various one-off characters with less metaphorical resonance.) | |
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Slut-Shaming | |
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Slut-Shaming: Played with in regards to Audrey, who is heavily implied to have worked as a stripper to make ends meet back when the shop wasn't doing very well. Audrey seems to slut-shame herself, citing her old job as a reason she doesn't "deserve" a good life or a good boyfriend, which fits with the fact that she has no self-esteem. She also met Orin at this job, and some of his dialogue (including outright referring to Audrey as a slut) implies that he does this to her as well, possibly using it to "justify" his abuse of her. Seymour, on the other hand, averts it, which makes sense seeing as how he views Audrey as God's gift to humanity. When she tells him about her old job, he clearly couldn't care less, outright saying that what Audrey did to pay the bills doesn't make her a bad person by any stretch. | |
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Nothing Is Scarier | |
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Nothing Is Scarier: In the Pasadena Playhouse production, Audrey II's true form is mostly cast in shadow. | |
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge | |
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Seymour attempts one of these on Audrey II, but ends up getting eaten. | |
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Horror Hunger | |
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Horror Hunger: Audrey II has a strong craving for human blood, accept no alternatives. | |
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Deliberately Monochrome | |
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Deliberately Monochrome: The 2016 Australian production starts out with all sets, costumes, and props (and even Audrey's hair) in black-and-white — with the exception of Audrey II. As Seymour's life improves (and Audrey II's influence grows), more color appears, until it ends in full color. | |
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I Wished You Were Dead | |
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I Wished You Were Dead: Audrey secretly wished Orin would disappear, and when he actually does, she blames herself, worrying that it's her fault if he "met with foul play". (Although she doesn't know it, she is the reason Seymour killed him.) | |
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Character Catchphrase | |
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Character Catchphrase: "Feed me!" and variants thereof. A more subtle one is Audrey's "Sure!", which even gets referenced in "Suddenly Seymour" ("I'd meet a man and I'd follow him blindly/He'd snap his fingers/Me, I'd say 'sure'!") "Say ahhhh! Say ahhhh!" | |
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"Somewhere" Song | |
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"Somewhere" Song: "Somewhere That's Green" is a whole song of Audrey daydreaming about her idea of a perfect life — living with Seymour in a suburb. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard: Seymour, eaten by his own giant plant, and Orin, who asphyxiates when the laughing gas mask gets stuck. In the stage show, Mushnik plays with this- he worries about money to the point of adopting Seymour just to keep the plant, and Seymour tells him he put the day's earnings in the plant during Suppertime, but considering A) how the shop had been doing before Audrey II, and B) the fact that it's apparently over a thousand dollars, his concern is more or less justified. Audrey is the only victim who doesn't really have a Karmic Death. Audrey's death was karmic - for Seymour instead of for her. Mushnik has an oddly meta example of this. In the original b-movie, he tricked a would-be robber into getting eaten by the plant by telling him the shop's money was inside it. The musical lifted the situation with practically the same dialogue, but used it to kill off Mushnik. | |
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Where Do You Think You Are? | |
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Where Do You Think You Are?: | |
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Breath-Holding Brat | |
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Breath-Holding Brat: Mr. Mushnik pulls this in the song "Mushnik and Son"; it's what finally gets Seymour to agree to his proposal of adoption. | |
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The Chessmaster | |
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The Chessmaster: Audrey II. After noticing Audrey I outside the shop, he feigns interest in a pound of rare roast beef so he can lure her inside. | |
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Friendship Moment | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_d6b5f05f | comment |
Friendship Moment: Chiffon, Ronette, and Crystal get two with Audrey. In the first, they encourage her to dump Orin and find a man that's worth her time — namely, Seymour. In the second, Audrey isn't present, but when the girls meet Orin for the first time and realize he's the scumbag that's been abusing Audrey, they tell him to get lost and leave Audrey alone. ...And try to beat the crap out of him while they're at it! (It doesn't work, but it's the thought that counts.) | |
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Race Lift | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_d7c3ba61 | comment |
Race Lift: The 2019 Italian production turns Audrey into a black woman of Hispanic origins. Likewise, the Pasadena Playhouse production casts African-American actress MJ Rodriguez in the role of Audrey, while half-Filipino, half-Ecuadorian actor George Salazar plays Seymour. Since May 2023, Audrey is played by African-American actress Joy Woods in the Off-Broadway revival. (Woods previously played Chiffon as part pf the revival's initial cast.) | |
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Depraved Dentist | |
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"Dentist" (where Orin describes the sadistic tendencies he had in his youth that ultimately led to him becoming a Depraved Dentist), "Feed Me" (where Audrey II demands that Seymour feed it more blood by killing people), and "Suppertime" (the first instance of which has Audrey II convince Seymour to save his own skin by feeding Mushnik to the plant, the reprise having Audrey II try to lure Audrey into being its next meal). | |
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Love Redeems | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_d842e380 | comment |
Love Redeems: "Suddenly Seymour" is about Audrey being redeemed by Seymour, which is ironic when you consider that she's The Ingenue and he's a murderer. | |
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Seemingly-Wholesome '50s Girl | |
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Right before "Suddenly Seymour" she implies, but doesn't outright state, that she moonlit as a stripper when the flower shop was doing poorly, and met Scrivello while working that job. Still, that doesn't make her a Seemingly-Wholesome '50s Girl by itself. | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_dbfd6b8 | comment |
Lyrical Dissonance: Quite a lot: cheerful, rousing rock/Motown numbers spliced with references to horror and bloodshed are the order of the day here. | |
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Despair Event Horizon | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_dda99fa8 | comment |
Despair Event Horizon: Audrey's death is this for Seymour. | |
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Beyond Redemption | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_de62097f | comment |
Beyond Redemption: Seymour doesn't necessarily have any ill will towards Orin Scrivello until he watches Orin slap Audrey in the face. Cue to Seymour selecting Orin as his first victim. | |
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Bloodlust | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_e03a0a7f | comment |
Blood Lust: "Don't need no twist of lime..." | |
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The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_e0c470a1 | comment |
The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: In some productions, Audrey II's tentacles drop from the ceiling to assault the audience. | |
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Final Love Duet | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_e25ae563 | comment |
Final Love Duet: "Suddenly, Seymour". | |
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The Ditz | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_e2d457 | comment |
Audrey, a happy-go-lucky ditz in the film, becomes the product of a broken home who's been in one bad relationship after another, suffers from low self-esteem, and is regularly abused by her sadistic boyfriend. She also dies in the end. | |
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Yiddish as a Second Language | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_e2e4edb2 | comment |
Yiddish as a Second Language: The plant knows some Yiddish, like "Come on Seymour, don't be a putz". (He even says "Feh!") He probably learned the Yiddish from the likely-Jewish Mr. Mushnik, who uses "mensch" and "mishegas". The lyricist/composer team, Ashman and Menken, also did many Disney movies, and the same influence is seen there (Phil in Hercules, etc.). | |
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Empathic Environment | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_e3cee2e7 | comment |
Empathic Environment: "Shang-a-lang, feel the sturm und drang in the air..." Besides that, the script calls for a "Wagnerian" sunset to heighten the over-the-top drama when Seymour feeds Audrey to the plant. | |
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Greek Chorus | |
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Greek Chorus: The three urchins Crystal, Ronnette, and Chiffon. | |
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Grief Song | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_e680af6f | comment |
Grief Song: In the German version, Seymour responds to Audrey's death with a Dark Reprise of "Suddenly Seymour". | |
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Adaptation Species Change | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_e8497e34 | comment |
Adaptation Species Change: Audrey II is traditionally based on a Venus fly trap, though some productions have changed it to be a pitcher plant or a lily. | |
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In the Style of | |
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In the Style of: Fitting the age of its source material, the musical's soundtrack is written to resemble 1960s pop music, most prominently illustrated by the Doo-wop approach of the title theme and "Dentist!" | |
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Exact Words | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_e9e35e8f | comment |
Exact Words: The refrain of "The Meek Shall Inherit" promises that "the meek are gonna get what's coming to them, by and by". Seymour gets what's coming to him, all right- in the karmic sense of the term. | |
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Jerkass | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_eb8e4fa8 | comment |
Mushnik would come off as a complete Jerkass if he didn't show concern for Audrey and urge her to break up with Orin. This is probably why he tells Seymour he didn't notify the police about the evidence he found that his flower shop boy has something to do with the dentist's disappearance. In fact, Mushnik gives a reasonable response: they should go to the police where Seymour can make a statement to clear his name as well as Mushnik's conscience. | |
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Take Over the World | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_ec0bf4a1 | comment |
Take Over the World: Audrey II's plan all along. | |
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Too Good for This Sinful Earth | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_ee9877ea | comment |
Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Audrey, the most goodhearted person the show, ultimately gets eaten, even asking Seymour to feed her to the plant, since she was going to die anyway, and she thought if the plant could continue to live, Seymour could keep living happily off its money. | |
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Redemption Equals Death | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_f1492605 | comment |
Redemption Equals Death: For Seymour, who doesn't actually end up killing Audrey II. At least he tries. | |
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Crowd Song | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_f16f631d | comment |
Crowd Song: "Skid Row", "Don't Feed The Plants". | |
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Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_f25493f4 | comment |
Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here: Lampshaded in the opening monologue. The narrator talks about how threats to Earth often happen in the most ordinary and unlikely of places. | |
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Cut-and-Paste Suburb | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_f32528de | comment |
Cut-and-Paste Suburb: Audrey reveals her greatest dream is a simple life in a tract house in "Somewhere That's Green". | |
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Dark Reprise | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_f3fd818b | comment |
Following Mushnik's death (complete with a Dark Reprise of "Mushnik and Son" to hammer the mood home). | |
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Fed to the Beast | |
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Fed to the Beast: The fate of Audrey II's victims. | |
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You Bastard! | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_f642b1f9 | comment |
You Bastard!: "Don't Feed The Plants" has Audrey II's kind take over by every human on Earth buying into its promises in exchange for blood—including you. | |
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Love Makes You Evil | |
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Love Makes You Evil: All of Seymour's evil deeds are done for Audrey's sake. | |
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Economy Cast | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_f8702398 | comment |
Economy Cast: If the roles are divided as they were in the original run, only eight cast members are required—four guys and four girls, with Orin's actor playing several minor roles. | |
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This Is a Drill | |
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This Is a Drill: Orin's dentist drill isn't rusty, it's an antique. | |
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Planet Spaceship | |
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Planet Spaceship: Audrey II beams down to Earth during an unprecedented eclipse, implying that he came here in a spaceship large enough to block out the sun. | |
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Job Song | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_fbb310ed | comment |
Job Song: "Dentist" is a song about Orin's job as a psychopathic dentist. | |
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Beware the Nice Ones | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_fccd06b6 | comment |
Beware the Nice Ones: Seymour (he fails in trying to kill the plant, though). | |
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Accidental Murder | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_fd497706 | comment |
In the film, Seymour is a bumbling innocent who's so clumsy that he kills his victims by mistake, while in the musical he's seduced into deliberate murder by being promised fame, fortune and the girl he loves, Audrey. Additionally, while the film Seymour lived with his mother, the musical Seymour was abandoned at the Skid Row Home For Boys and taken in by Mushnik, who never liked him and treated him horribly. | |
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Theme Naming | |
| Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_fd94c4ac | comment |
Theme Naming: Crystal, Ronette and Chiffon take their names from the Crystals, the Ronettes and the Chiffons; all 1960s New York African-American girl groups. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: Mushnik would come off as a complete Jerkass if he didn't show concern for Audrey and urge her to break up with Orin. This is probably why he tells Seymour he didn't notify the police about the evidence he found that his flower shop boy has something to do with the dentist's disappearance. In fact, Mushnik gives a reasonable response: they should go to the police where Seymour can make a statement to clear his name as well as Mushnik's conscience. The Urchins stand in Orin's way when he comes to pick up Audrey. They tell him to leave her alone. When Orin meets Seymour while picking up Audrey, he tells him in all seriousness that the plant is his ticket to a successful life away from Skid Row and encourages him to take advantage of it. | |
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