Little Shop of Horrors at Pasadena Playhouse
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- Little Shop at the Pasadena Playhouse
I watched the show multiple times... and on this viewing I decided to record the BEST parts of the play. Yes, here in this video are the best parts of the play. Enjoy :)
this description is taken from • Act I | Little Shop of... because its a great description and anything else is inferior (and I’m lazy).
Running from September 17 to October 20, 2019, as opposed to the off-Broadway revival directed by Michael Mayer, which strived to honor and emulate the tone of Howard Ashman's original production, and which happened to begin previews on the exact same night, Little Shop of Horrors was completely redirected and reconceived from the ground up by director Mike Donahue, with a slightly grittier, contemporary edge. Donahue told Vanity Fair near the beginning of the production: "It’s not like Audrey is on Snapchat. But it’s not like you’re walking into a period version of the 1960s. [Our production] is a little looser than that. The thing I became really excited about was: What if we don’t make any assumptions about how all this is supposed to go? What if we just started working on it as if we’re working on a new play? Yes, it’s sort of a B horror movie, and there’s a lot of deliciousness and fun in that, but what if we don’t think of having to make it schtickier? What if we approach it from a place of it is real and it is pedestrian?”
Coming out of Pasadena Playhouse’s producing artistic director Danny Feldman's desire to stage a production of Little Shop with Mj Rodriguez as Audrey, who would be the first trans woman of color to play the role in a major production, Donahue offered her the part during a lunch meeting. Rodriguez immediately said yes. “But in my head,” she told the LA Times, “I was like, ‘Oh, my God, those are some big shoes to fill. And also I’m a different Audrey. I’m not the Ellen Greene; I’m not the Kerry Butler; I’m not the other Audreys that have been played. I’m a very different Audrey. I’m a woman of color. And that scared me a bit.”
She went on to explain to EW: “Audrey is usually played by a Caucasian cis woman, and that’s not to take anything away from the many amazing women who have played this role and done a wonderful job, but now she’s being played by a black woman, a woman of color, and also a trans woman of color, so already there are so many elements to the character that can be brought out now that she’s a part of a different sector of life. I love diving into dark areas - naturally, I love drama - and I saw Audrey as the perfect character to do that with. So many people see or portray her in a certain way, but I saw so much realism in her. I saw somebody who was being abused, who was being taken advantage of, and yet still had a lot of heart in believing she could get out simply by dreaming.”
The rest of the show was soon reconcieved as well, even down to Audrey II, which strayed far from the path created by original designer Martin P. Robinson, with a completely new design by Sean Cawelti, who told the LA Times: “I wanted to make something that seems alien and extraterrestrial but also that gives an emotional reaction - you can’t help but smile. And when the plant opens its petals for the first time and reveals what’s inside, it’s not inherently scary but surprisingly whimsical and magical.”
According to Donohue, in the same LA Times piece: “The classic look can be nostalgic but also predictable. All of the language that’s in the piece is about how the plant stands out, how it catches people’s eyes immediately when people are walking by. There’s gotta be something about it that, in this drab and depressed and bleak world, just pops.”
The production also follows a recent trend of casting a woman (in this case, Amber Riley) as the voice of the plant. According to Donohue in EW: “One of Amber’s immediate insights was that [Seymour's] never actually had a mother, so [for the plant to be] channeling that energy and preying upon that and finding ways to manipulate and maneuver him by unlocking what kind of presence he needs in his life… I had never thought of that because of how the plant has always been cast, but Amber had that really incredible insight almost immediately,”
Little Shop at the Pasadena Playhouse also stared George Salazar as Seymour, Cheyenne Isabel Wells as Crystal, Brittany Campbell as Ronnette, Tickwanya Jones as Chiffon, Kevin Chamberlin as Mushnik, and Matthew Wilkas as Orin (and others).
Book and lyrics by Howard Ashman. Music by Alan Menken. Direction by Mike Donahue. Choreography by Will B. Bell. Music direction by Darryl Archibald. Puppet direction and design by Sean Cawelti. Scenic Design by Dane Laffrey. Costume design by Danae Iris McQueen. Lighting Design by Josh Epstein. Sound Design by Veronika Vorel.
Based on the film by Roger Corman. Screenplay by Charles Griffith.
I will forever be mad at production for not making a professional recording of the best play the Pasadena playhouse has ever seen since the 1800s
Do you have the entire show?? I would love to see it!!! Please?
@@gracesufficientdesigns Unfortunately this was all the recording I managed to get :(
@@gracesufficientdesignsyou can find it on the channel little shop archive
George Salazar is so amazing in this role, the whole cast are just incredible!
this is really well fimed! would you be willing to upload a Google drive of the entire thing?
Amazing recording! If you could upload the whole thing anywhere or trades I’ll be so happy!
Is there any way to get the full video 👀
Hi! Would it be possible to send me a drive with the full show by mail?
I need a feed me recording with amber riley I love her from glee
WHAT IS THAT WHO I THINK IT IS AS MR. MUSHNIK
that has to be Kevin Chamberling
I've seen a lot of Audrey 2 puppetry, and that was one of the coolest audrey 2 puppetry ever!
I love how Audrey II walks and runs in its pot! Especially when It ran when Seymour told it to come to him!
Little Shop of Horrors at Pasadena Playhouse (Full Show)
This is my favorite version of little shop- I find it so hard to go back to any other version after watching this one
This is terrible
We need more theatre just like this. MJ is a revelation in this role.
Is there any way I can get a full recording of this? I’m going to be doing the show in a couple months and this is by far the best recording I’ve seen!
Would I be able to get a copy of the full musical, little shop is my all time favourite musical and I'm based in the UK gutted I never saw this in person as it looks incredible!!
Is it just me, or is the guy who played Mr. Mushnik also played Bertram from Jessie?
THIS IS A GREAT VIDEO PRODUCTION! Is it possible to get a google drive link to the full performance?
Such a creative production. Would you be up to send this to me without TH-cam compression?
Of course! How would you like them?
@@littleshop2441 Google Drive or MEGA link?
@@littleshop2441 Hello?
do you have a full recording of this quality?! this is amazing
May I have a drive of the full show?
Would love a recording of Feed me love amber Riley from glee is Kevin chamberlain mushink
May I have a google drive link of the recording it’s so good!
did you get a recording of dentist?
Dentist is there around 16:03
@@littleshop2441 that's just the gas!
I’m just. Not feeling it. I guess bc I’m a Little shop purist. The Audrey casting is the only stellar thing her. That woman is TALENTED.
Live theatre is not set in aspic and different versions of any given production can bring new light to them… from Shakespeare to Sondheim new and fresh interpretations have made me think and rethink . Yes some Miss the mark but that doesn’t mean the attempt was not valid …I can’t subscribe to there being a “pure” way to perform any role and this “ you tube” need to compare and contrast gets tiring. I only wish I could have enjoyed this production in the theatre. . Purist ? so it needs to be a carbon copy each time.? Where’s the creativity in that ?
@@jonldn it’s a show with do wop, the music doesn’t gel with modern aesthetics.
@@redtopcosplay2004 like Hamlet in modern dress? or Company with a female lead ? Or Alexander Hamilton played by a Black Man King Lear played by a female. Swan Lake with an all Male Cast? Theatre is there to change and challenge…
@@redtopcosplay2004 Also if you look at the style of the Music - it covers more than Do Wop and has pastiches of many styles 60's Girl Groups - Gospel - Rock & Roll etc. therefore I would say the directors of any production have the right to take a fresh look at the piece.
I agree, except I think both Audrey and Audrey II Casting are terrible.
This is terrible.
going to add another question for the full recording: do you have it available maybe on g00gle drive?