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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2021 0:00:41 GMT
I love this musical, but I was hoping that if it were to comeback again either in London or on tour it would be a revival of the Regent's Park Open Air production as I didn't see it but it looked brilliant and a creative new way of presenting a classic.
However I also didn't see the Selladoor tour, but from what I heard it was good.
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Post by Theatre Fan on Jan 17, 2021 3:54:09 GMT
I love this musical, but I was hoping that if it were to comeback again either in London or on tour it would be a revival of the Regent's Park Open Air production as I didn't see it but it looked brilliant and a creative new way of presenting a classic. However I also didn't see the Selladoor tour, but from what I heard it was good. The Selladoor tour was excellent, I'm very excited it's coming back x
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Post by drowseychap on Jan 17, 2021 17:35:04 GMT
I too thought the sellladoor was excellent for smaller theatre s a great production all round
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Post by fluxcapacitor on Jan 18, 2021 9:33:17 GMT
I love this musical, but I was hoping that if it were to comeback again either in London or on tour it would be a revival of the Regent's Park Open Air production as I didn't see it but it looked brilliant and a creative new way of presenting a classic. However I also didn't see the Selladoor tour, but from what I heard it was good. I'm a huge fan of Little Shop, and a massive fan of Regent's Park and their reworking of some classic musicals, but that production was a bit of a miss for me unfortunately. You can't go too wrong with Little Shop as the material is so strong, but the more abstract cartoony staging with skyscrapers in shopping carts, Audrey singing Somewhere That's Green on top of a ladder and the like just felt... off. I don't think the musical is impossible to reimagine (see the fantastic Pasadena Playhouse version in LA with a brilliantly active pink female Audrey II) but this one just hit the mark. If they were to revive any London production, I'd prefer the Menier Chocolate Factory's attempt. That was fresh enough whilst still being very true to the original. It was also the first time I'd personally ever seen the street urchins reimagined - the choreography and performance giving a much younger and grungier vibe rather than the 'Supremes"/60s girl group treatment they traditionally get. The Selladoor tour offered nothing new, but it's passable I guess - again because the material is strong. I really wish someone over here would have the guts to do what the Pasadena Playhouse in LA did with this from a casting perspective. Audrey II was female (Amber Riley riffing her way through the score) and transgender actress MJ Rodriguez played Audrey - which gave a completely new and beautiful take on the character's vulnerability and struggles in life. There are a few recordings on YouTube and it really works and shakes the show up in the right way (that is, without the need for skyscrapers in shopping carts!). It's a crime that production was never given a larger life with a Broadway transfer or similar, but the safe, traditional, copy and paste version with Jonathan Groff opened in New York at roughly the same time and blocked any immediate future it had at the time.
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Post by kentwilliam on Jan 18, 2021 15:27:58 GMT
I’ve still got the programme from the 1994 touring production with Su Pollard as Audrey. Can’t remember a thing about it apart from it not having Mean Green Mother From Outer Space, but I think it was written for the film so guess that is why. Can’t remember what Su was like - no mention of Miss Cathcart as far as I can remember.
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Post by Deal J on Jan 18, 2021 16:30:29 GMT
I’ve still got the programme from the 1994 touring production with Su Pollard as Audrey. Can’t remember a thing about it apart from it not having Mean Green Mother From Outer Space, but I think it was written for the film so guess that is why. Can’t remember what Su was like - no mention of Miss Cathcart as far as I can remember. I’ve got the cast recording of that one! It’s available on YouTube and Spotify should you want to jog your memory. Strangely the CD cover describes it as the “Original UK cast recording”. castalbums.org/recordings/Little-Shop-of-Horrors-1994-UK-Tour-Cast/1626You’re correct that Mean Green Mother was written for the film, I was hugely surprised and excited when they included it as an encore for the Regent’s Park Open Air production.
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Post by fluxcapacitor on Jan 18, 2021 18:11:10 GMT
I’ve still got the programme from the 1994 touring production with Su Pollard as Audrey. Can’t remember a thing about it apart from it not having Mean Green Mother From Outer Space, but I think it was written for the film so guess that is why. Can’t remember what Su was like - no mention of Miss Cathcart as far as I can remember. I’ve got the cast recording of that one! It’s available on YouTube and Spotify should you want to jog your memory. Strangely the CD cover describes it as the “Original UK cast recording”. castalbums.org/recordings/Little-Shop-of-Horrors-1994-UK-Tour-Cast/1626You’re correct that Mean Green Mother was written for the film, I was hugely surprised and excited when they included it as an encore for the Regent’s Park Open Air production. Personally I thought the Mean Green Mother encore, and casting drag queen Vicky Vox as Audrey II were the two things the RP production got just right.
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Post by drowseychap on Jan 20, 2021 2:12:50 GMT
I’ve still got the programme from the 1994 touring production with Su Pollard as Audrey. Can’t remember a thing about it apart from it not having Mean Green Mother From Outer Space, but I think it was written for the film so guess that is why. Can’t remember what Su was like - no mention of Miss Cathcart as far as I can remember. I w got the programme for this production too. It’s a long time ago but I remember she was very good ... also before this production I think 🤔 I’m sure I saw Lorraine chase playing Audrey and at the end they all wore flowers around their heads and were really integrated into the plant think it was the first time I ever saw it
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