Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik's, a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors a crush on fellow co-worker Audrey Fulquard, and is berated by Mr. Mushnik daily. One day as Seymour is seeking a new mysterious plant, he finds a very mysterious unidentified plant which he calls Audrey II. The plant seems to have a craving for blood and soon begins to sing for his supper. Soon enough, Seymour feeds Audrey's sadistic dentist boyfriend to the plant and later, Mushnik for witnessing the death of Audrey's ex. Will Audrey II take over the world or will Seymour and Audrey defeat it?Written by
HannahMontaniwitz
The original production of "Little Shop of Horrors" premiered at the WPA Theater in New York on May 6, 1982, before transferring to the the Orpheum Theatre, where it ran from July 27, 1982 to November 1, 1987, for a total of 2,209 performances. Its Broadway debut was 17 years later at the Virginia Theater, where it between October 2, 2003 and August 22, 2004, totaling 372 performances. See more »
Goofs
In the opening number, right after Ronette sings "hear the sturm und drang in the air" you hear Crystal and Chiffon sing "yeah, yeah, yeah" but their mouths don't move at all. See more »
Quotes
[first lines]
Narrator:
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. And this terrifying enemy surfaced, as such enemies often do, in the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places...
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Crazy Credits
"Special Thanks" are given to Paul Dooley, because his scenes as Patrick Martin were cut and re-cast with Jim Belushi. Dooley's scenes are restored for the Director's cut, and consequently Belushi gets the "Special Thanks" instead. See more »
Alternate Versions
Initial screenings included many deviations from the version of the film that went into general release:
-The film opens with a different narrator (the same man heard on the soundtrack album.)
-After Mr. Mushnik says, "I'm beginning to think maybe he's not such a nice boy," Audrey replies, "You don't meet nice boys when you live on Skid Row, Mr. Mushnik." (This line made it into some of the original trailers.)
-"Skid Row" opens with a different singer (Bertice Reading's vocals were later re-dubbed by co-star Michelle Weeks).
-After Audrey's verse in the song "Skid Row," shots of the local residents are edited in a different order, including a few alternate shots.
-As Seymour heads to the basement at the beginning of "Grow for Me," Crystal, Chiffon and Ronette pass by the storefront window singing, the camera follows them along the sidewalk and pans down to the basement window, where Seymour looks out.
-When Weird Wink Wilkinson makes machine gun noises, it cuts to shots of people in the radio studio laughing, and Wink then declares, "What a rotten shot!"
-"Some Fun Now" includes an extra verse, an alternate instrumental solo (both are heard on the soundtrack album), as well as additional shots of Seymour squeezing blood out of his finger and into Audrey II's eager jaws.
-There is an extended scene of Orin laughing at the photo of the dog's mouth.
-The dismemberment of Orin is substantially longer and features a completely different musical orchestration.
-The camera circles over Seymour's head as he lies in bed trying to sleep. In the widely released version, Seymour sits beside the bed, unable to sleep.
-"The Meek Shall Inherit" includes a lengthy, surreal dream sequence and all of Seymour's dialogue (heard on the soundtrack album) is intact.
-In an alternate scene, Audrey asks Seymour when Mr. Mushnik will be back from visiting his sister in Czechoslovakia, Seymour proposes to her, says they'll move to Alaska to be away from plants, and the lovers sing a brief reprise of "Suddenly Seymour."
-The reprise of "Somewhere That's Green" and Audrey's death are intact.
-"Don't Feed the Plants" is severely truncated, running approximately 3 minutes in total. See more »
Delightful film version of the Off Broadway triumph based on the Roger Corman black comedy, carried off beautifully here by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's memorable tunes.
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Delightful film version of the Off Broadway triumph based on the Roger Corman black comedy, carried off beautifully here by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's memorable tunes.