I dont know what´s better, the Puppeteer, The design of the puppet itself, the voice of the plant and how the acting of the plants goes so well with this Seymour, Amazing
Actually, the puppet design itself in this particular form is harder to work with than the solid puppets. The floppy ones, like this one, generally are more difficult to deal with because you need to evenly distribute your arm and find a way to keep hold and have so many subtle nuances to make it work properly. However, most solid ones have two rods you hold onto which makes the weight distributed and make the movement easier to handle. So, I'd say this particular puppet design doesn't work as well. What REALLY makes it is the puppeteer because they can handle such a puppet SO WELL. Because they had all the subtleties, so much personality, so much movement. And the voice actor REALLY DID bring so much to the table. It's just wonderful.
It's so well coordinated that I'm starting to think that the voice of Audrey ii is also the puppeteer. Usually it's a 2 man job, but this.. this has to be just one guy. Either way, I'm totally blown away.
I'm actually part of a show that covers this. there's usually multiple people in the plant, for the voice and the different movements. we have 3, the vines, the mouth, and the voice. the leaves are usually switched to when the vines aren't moving.
Looking at that I just put together that they’re the puppeteers feet. You can see his knees and feet once you look at it hard but it’s amazing! They truly transformed him into a plant.
@@DodgeThisBamI just watched a video today called “Audrey II puppet guide”, where the creator of the puppets shows how each of the 4 pod plants work. It’s made for theatre companies to use but it’s really cool to see how they work. I recommend watching it!
I wish there was a way for the puppeteer to somehow cross their legs in a way that looks like Twoey is crossing his arms in boredom while Seymour is having his crisis of morals like they did in the movie
This is hands down the best puppetry for Audrey II I have ever seen thus far!!!! Whoever is doing it gives the plant so much character and actually made me believe that it was ALIVE!!! Every movement of the head and roots are amazing and when the plant tapped his roots to the beat of the music, I was dying of laughter. If anyone ever does this show and becomes the puppeteer or the voice of Audrey, they need to see this video.
Thank you for this amazing puppetry of our Audrey II plant #3! The designer of this very plant, Dennis Lancaster, knows what he is doing. We enjoy renting 4 full sets all over the nation for almost 20 years now. They are lightweight, lifelike and flexible which sets them apart from any others for rent. And they still look this good! Bravo to the puppeteer!
Do you guys have a full video of this show I just really wanna see more of these puppets. I am making a few puppets myself and this is way better than what I could’ve done
My version of the plant voice is just like this, but the puppeteer is extremely good. To open and close the mouth that fast and that often means it must have been a very light plant puppet or the guy operating it was an Olympic endurance runner that happened to also participate in the weight lifting events.
It has to be the puppeteer that made it work. Because this puppet is inheritely floppy. So, to make it work, you need a puppeteer that has an understanding of how regular puppetry works, then they have to be able to blow it up ten times the size.
Yes! It is possible. We can build one for you...but it is pricey to own one. Can you imagine that this very plant from 7 months ago was built in 2002? They last a lifetime with proper care.
Lots of fun, fresh bits here, but my favorites are Audrey II's uncontrollable tremor of anticipation at around 2:10, and the unexpected root tapping its 'foot' in time to the music when Seymour starts singing at around 4:20. Hilarious!
The laughter at 2:52 is so natural and well-synced too. The audience's astonishment is audible. The plant operator/s and voice have really put in the work in rehearsals.
The Plant and the Voice are fantastic. But I don't know how much of this Seymour I could sit through without offering myself as a sacrifice to Audrey II
y’all out here talking about the puppet design and the voice and seymour, but can we just appreciate the most beautiful riff for “i need blood and he’s got more than enough” near the end.
WOW!!!! that end was AWESOME. I'm convinced that guy doing the voice is in the puppet, at least during this point of the play. I could be wrong though.
My god, Seymour is APPALLING. STEALING FOCUS. Making every line a LINE. But, the puppeteer is phenomenal. The Voice Of The Plant is also great (they’re two different people). I was TVOTP myself once, regionally, and the puppeteer (the original Off-B’way puppeteer) and I spent HOURS on coordination. I had to lock in my vocals pretty quick and sing them exactly the same at every performance. He was incredibly sensitive, very musical, was very good at nuance and following riffs. He was also an amazing athlete with, for a tall, in shape guy, ginormous arms.
My god, Seymour is APPALLING. STEALING FOCUS. Making every line a LINE. But, the puppeteer is phenomenal. The Voice Of The Plant is also great (they’re two different people). I was TVOTP myself once, regionally, and the puppeteer (the original Off-B’way puppeteer) and I spent HOURS on coordination. I had to lock in my vocals pretty quick and sing them exactly the same at every performance. He was incredibly sensitive, very musical, was very good at nuance and following riffs. He was also an amazing athlete with, for a tall, in shape guy, ginormous arms.
I am the Audrey 2 puppeteer for my school musical this year and I have been watching videos to study movements. This is easily the best one I have ever seen!
If he's looking for fresh blood, he could visit a local butcher shop, or, failing that, a slaughterhouse. I'd imagine they'd sell him buckets of blood. It would be profit they could make from something they'd likely otherwise wash away for free anyway. Audrey 2 never answers if it has to be human.
I dont understand why people are complaining or hating on this Seymour being "too animated" or "over the top" when in fact this is how Seymour would actually act like, perfectly within character and also it's A MUSICAL!!! ABOUT A MAN EATING PLANT!!! let them have fun with it.
I love how in synk the voice actor and puppet is. That extra step made this look so much better . The design of the puppet being a light fabric peice allows more freedom of movment and better puppetry.
Ooh, clever puppet and puppeteering! Looks like he's sitting with his legs being the roots, so I'd guess that he uses his whole arm/arms to move the mouth up and down. Puppeteer head is in the top of the puppet and just naturally holds up the top part of the mouth, so really they only need to control the bottom mouth of the plant. Boy that's a lot of arm movement though. It's got to be exhausting.
I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!! I LOVE IT I LOVE IT I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! to heck with over acting!!!!!!!!!!!! i thought the expressions seymor showed were awesome! and to the person who did the voice of audrey 2!!!!! Kudos to you sir!!!!!!!!!!!!! you sounded just like the one in the movies :D it was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We did this musical with my amateur drama group. The guy doing the voice of Audrey 2 was stood behind the black curtains at the back of the stage and another guy operated plant 3 and 4. The actor playing Seymore operates the hand puppet in Ya never know and the same guy operating the big plants is under the table. We all got a fly trap after the show. I'm getting 3 fly traps cos you need them in the country side 😂
Ironically this Semour seems a bit too over the top. It's ok on its own for a comical character, but not really fitting his usual personality. Usually you can see the dilemma and turmoil he goes through, but in this version he's trying to capture too much of his goofy side, one more fitting for Anything Goes or something. At least Audrey II is still as delightfully evil as we can hope for her with her charisma and energy.
I just did a Production of little shop of with this puppet, rented from the same place, I absolutely love this puppet, it works so well. Honestly the current off broadway plant is probably at the same level, I would argue worse than this one for me (but the current ones tentacles are REALLY cool but the legs on this one) Maybe it’s bias but the current off-bway plant is honestly so lame compared to this. There’s so much life that they can bring to this plant. I was a tech on our production so i set this plant every day and yeah plant #4 looked sorta weird BUT number 2 and 3 were insane. I love those puppets so much and every time I see this video I will be reminded of our amazing production of little shop.
In the past year, which was my senior year of High School, we put on our own production of Little Shop of Horrors using that exact same puppet. It must have been from the same prop rental place lol 😂. I was the voice of the plant, aka “the Doowop Gardner”. It was a fabulous show and one that I will miss to pieces 😊.
i will admit this is amazing puppertry. and ispeak as ive seen a performance back in 2014 of this. when i could work out where the 10th person was it wasnt untill the end when they popped out from the curtians and took ther bow. was such a realistic performance
Is it being puppeteered from underneath the stage? The size of the pot and its position says a lot. Like "We put the plant here and it's ready to be manipulated from under the stage." Maybe it's raised a bit but a dark curtain hides the puppeteer/s
@@hammdogporkington3058 When we did this at my high school, that's how we handled this puppet with a professional puppeteer. This version was 100x better though
Fabulous, characterful Audrey, dreadful, overacting, tone deaf Seymour. He cannot seem to straighten his legs and body, adopt a normal posture, or move in a normal way. Very annoying to watch.
I dont know what´s better, the Puppeteer, The design of the puppet itself, the voice of the plant and how the acting of the plants goes so well with this Seymour, Amazing
SebakuSan Ikr
The puppet was rented.
Actually, the puppet design itself in this particular form is harder to work with than the solid puppets. The floppy ones, like this one, generally are more difficult to deal with because you need to evenly distribute your arm and find a way to keep hold and have so many subtle nuances to make it work properly. However, most solid ones have two rods you hold onto which makes the weight distributed and make the movement easier to handle. So, I'd say this particular puppet design doesn't work as well. What REALLY makes it is the puppeteer because they can handle such a puppet SO WELL. Because they had all the subtleties, so much personality, so much movement. And the voice actor REALLY DID bring so much to the table. It's just wonderful.
He sounds like ken page
Do you know where it was rented from, or anything else about this production?
It's so well coordinated that I'm starting to think that the voice of Audrey ii is also the puppeteer. Usually it's a 2 man job, but this.. this has to be just one guy. Either way, I'm totally blown away.
IKR?! My thoughts are that the head of Audrey II is like, connected to the singer's jaw or somethin!
@@intermissionproductions9441 how much is the to rent them for like one proformance
@@intermissionproductions9441 who's doing the voice? It's incredible.
I'm actually part of a show that covers this. there's usually multiple people in the plant, for the voice and the different movements. we have 3, the vines, the mouth, and the voice. the leaves are usually switched to when the vines aren't moving.
@@scottperrin9655 I believe it’s Ken Page
4:17 Okay, the little touch of Audrey II's vines tapping along is brilliant. This really is the best stage puppetering I've seen of this play!
Looking at that I just put together that they’re the puppeteers feet. You can see his knees and feet once you look at it hard but it’s amazing! They truly transformed him into a plant.
@@Molls-ng6bc Well I'll be damned! So they're sitting down! Probably an arm in each part of the plants mouth?
@@DodgeThisBam that’s exactly what I think too! That would be the best way to move the mouth I think too. Such an ingenious design!!
@@DodgeThisBamI just watched a video today called “Audrey II puppet guide”, where the creator of the puppets shows how each of the 4 pod plants work. It’s made for theatre companies to use but it’s really cool to see how they work. I recommend watching it!
I wish there was a way for the puppeteer to somehow cross their legs in a way that looks like Twoey is crossing his arms in boredom while Seymour is having his crisis of morals like they did in the movie
This is hands down the best puppetry for Audrey II I have ever seen thus far!!!! Whoever is doing it gives the plant so much character and actually made me believe that it was ALIVE!!! Every movement of the head and roots are amazing and when the plant tapped his roots to the beat of the music, I was dying of laughter. If anyone ever does this show and becomes the puppeteer or the voice of Audrey, they need to see this video.
Check out this one!
th-cam.com/video/MO8maMt4PpY/w-d-xo.html
@@Cplm92017 i’m not falling for a rickroll
THIS IS ME!! Been looking through videos, and this one touched me. Can’t wait to show it to my directors!
Thank you for this amazing puppetry of our Audrey II plant #3! The designer of this very plant, Dennis Lancaster, knows what he is doing. We enjoy renting 4 full sets all over the nation for almost 20 years now. They are lightweight, lifelike and flexible which sets them apart from any others for rent. And they still look this good! Bravo to the puppeteer!
Do you guys have a full video of this show I just really wanna see more of these puppets. I am making a few puppets myself and this is way better than what I could’ve done
We do not have a full video of the show, but maybe someone can help with that?
Thanks!
Kunzysnqos mbbvcx🤔
@@intermissionproductions9441i have a question? Are your audery two puppets for sow and shiping to houses?
"Does this look inanimate to you??"
*SUDDENLY FEET*
valid reaction from Seymour, honestly
My version of the plant voice is just like this, but the puppeteer is extremely good. To open and close the mouth that fast and that often means it must have been a very light plant puppet or the guy operating it was an Olympic endurance runner that happened to also participate in the weight lifting events.
It has to be the puppeteer that made it work. Because this puppet is inheritely floppy. So, to make it work, you need a puppeteer that has an understanding of how regular puppetry works, then they have to be able to blow it up ten times the size.
My point exactly. This is an outstanding Audrey II puppeteer. The voice and singing are really good, but the movement is top of class.
We agree the puppeteer is amazing, however, our particular Audrey 2 plant #3 is remarkably easier to work with than any others in the nation.
Intermission Productions I want one for my house can I have one? 😂😂😂😂
Yes! It is possible. We can build one for you...but it is pricey to own one. Can you imagine that this very plant from 7 months ago was built in 2002? They last a lifetime with proper care.
Lots of fun, fresh bits here, but my favorites are Audrey II's uncontrollable tremor of anticipation at around 2:10, and the unexpected root tapping its 'foot' in time to the music when Seymour starts singing at around 4:20. Hilarious!
The laughter at 2:52 is so natural and well-synced too. The audience's astonishment is audible. The plant operator/s and voice have really put in the work in rehearsals.
Holy crap that is hands down the best Audrey 2 I have seen on stage...Well done!
Check out this one!
th-cam.com/video/MO8maMt4PpY/w-d-xo.html
The Plant and the Voice are fantastic. But I don't know how much of this Seymour I could sit through without offering myself as a sacrifice to Audrey II
y’all out here talking about the puppet design and the voice and seymour, but can we just appreciate the most beautiful riff for “i need blood and he’s got more than enough” near the end.
His vocals incapsulate Levi Stubbs really well!
why is this seymour so animated 😭 he’s like a cartoon character
This... is some of the best puppetry I've ever seen for this show!
Seymour: 🎶I have so...so many strong...reservations...
Audrey II: Bish, where...
WOW!!!! that end was AWESOME. I'm convinced that guy doing the voice is in the puppet, at least during this point of the play. I could be wrong though.
My god, Seymour is APPALLING. STEALING FOCUS. Making every line a LINE. But, the puppeteer is phenomenal. The Voice Of The Plant is also great (they’re two different people). I was TVOTP myself once, regionally, and the puppeteer (the original Off-B’way puppeteer) and I spent HOURS on coordination. I had to lock in my vocals pretty quick and sing them exactly the same at every performance. He was incredibly sensitive, very musical, was very good at nuance and following riffs. He was also an amazing athlete with, for a tall, in shape guy, ginormous arms.
My god, Seymour is APPALLING. STEALING FOCUS. Making every line a LINE. But, the puppeteer is phenomenal. The Voice Of The Plant is also great (they’re two different people). I was TVOTP myself once, regionally, and the puppeteer (the original Off-B’way puppeteer) and I spent HOURS on coordination. I had to lock in my vocals pretty quick and sing them exactly the same at every performance. He was incredibly sensitive, very musical, was very good at nuance and following riffs. He was also an amazing athlete with, for a tall, in shape guy, ginormous arms.
Wait, you worked with Martin P. Robinson?!
What a performance, wow. So much energy! And the voice of Audrey two, that so incredible
I am the Audrey 2 puppeteer for my school musical this year and I have been watching videos to study movements. This is easily the best one I have ever seen!
Seymour could feed him ham, if he wanted it. There seems to be much in reserve. Oof.
actorsnonactors “if u want it bebe”
actorsnonactors
“It must be blood”
It must be fresh”
shawn ritzheimer he could have fed him the pig while it was alive, that fits the bill.
If he's looking for fresh blood, he could visit a local butcher shop, or, failing that, a slaughterhouse. I'd imagine they'd sell him buckets of blood. It would be profit they could make from something they'd likely otherwise wash away for free anyway. Audrey 2 never answers if it has to be human.
Audrey 2 is a vary picky plant and seymour is just fucking dumb
this performance is paricularly snappy. all the movements are brief and isolated. it's very high-energy and I LOVE IT!
Jeez ... that puppeteer is a genius.
Semour needs to take it down about 10 notches. He's too focused on stealing the show.
And he doesn't even accomplish that, Audrey II is still the real show-stopper here
Take it down a notch? Hell no, he should crank it up!
80? More like 200
hahhahaha... Seymour behaves and sounds ike those old-time classic circus clown.
Mr. DeadlyHydra 200? More like 5000 notches
I NEED to know how the puppeteer and the voice actor were so well coordinated
4:20 I love how you can see Audrey 2’s red vines tapping to the beat on the floor
Yeah it was a cool touch. It’s like Audrey II is getting impatient and tapping it’s “foot” on the ground. XD
Who ever did thr voice of the plant Id love to hear singing Mean Green Motha
Craig Creative as it’s the stage show it doesn’t exist. That song was made just for the movie.
That Australian Girl true but that’s a shame. It’s a fantastic villain song. The best lol
@@TheIndigoSystem oh, absolutely the best!
Sounds like a track that came with the rights
That Australian Girl
I think it would’ve been awesome if they introduced it into the newer version after the movie
One of the all time best Audrey 2s I've seen!
I dont understand why people are complaining or hating on this Seymour being "too animated" or "over the top" when in fact this is how Seymour would actually act like, perfectly within character and also it's A MUSICAL!!! ABOUT A MAN EATING PLANT!!! let them have fun with it.
I love how in synk the voice actor and puppet is. That extra step made this look so much better . The design of the puppet being a light fabric peice allows more freedom of movment and better puppetry.
this puppeteering and voice is LEGENDARY status
Ooh, clever puppet and puppeteering! Looks like he's sitting with his legs being the roots, so I'd guess that he uses his whole arm/arms to move the mouth up and down. Puppeteer head is in the top of the puppet and just naturally holds up the top part of the mouth, so really they only need to control the bottom mouth of the plant.
Boy that's a lot of arm movement though. It's got to be exhausting.
The puppeteer is amazing wow
This is almost Jim Henson quality puppeteering. Great job!
It *is* Henson quality
@@LoreleiMission the 1986 movie puppet definitely counts as Henson Quality
@@systemshocker2875 Yup Frank Oz was so utterly THE right choice as director for that project, he knew who to hire
@@LoreleiMission It helps that Oz had plenty of friends from Jim Henson's company he could hire, many of whom had worked on Labyrinth.
I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!! I LOVE IT I LOVE IT I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! to heck with over acting!!!!!!!!!!!! i thought the expressions seymor showed were awesome! and to the person who did the voice of audrey 2!!!!! Kudos to you sir!!!!!!!!!!!!! you sounded just like the one in the movies :D it was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A2 keeping time with "I Don't Know" is priceless!
This is my favorite production of Feed Me that I have ever seen. The singing, acting, and puppetry is amazing. Really brings the characters to life.
That was fantastic!!! I'd wish I could see the entire performance!
We did this musical with my amateur drama group. The guy doing the voice of Audrey 2 was stood behind the black curtains at the back of the stage and another guy operated plant 3 and 4. The actor playing Seymore operates the hand puppet in Ya never know and the same guy operating the big plants is under the table. We all got a fly trap after the show. I'm getting 3 fly traps cos you need them in the country side 😂
Hot damn, the puppet, Audrey's II voice, is just phenomenal
Ironically this Semour seems a bit too over the top. It's ok on its own for a comical character, but not really fitting his usual personality. Usually you can see the dilemma and turmoil he goes through, but in this version he's trying to capture too much of his goofy side, one more fitting for Anything Goes or something. At least Audrey II is still as delightfully evil as we can hope for her with her charisma and energy.
I agree. He’s overplaying it a little.
This Seymour would annoy the annoying glasses kid from polar express
Holy christ!!!! THIS was FLAWLESS. Audrey II compliments this Seymour so well! BOTH blew my mind!
No kidding that puppet has so much personality!!
The plant and singer is the bomb!
Man, that puppeteer just killed it with the Audrey II puppet, along with the puppet’s voice over.
AudreyIIs way to move is just amazing - and it reminds me so much of ALF!! Especially the ahhh... at 2:09
How is the actor playing Seymour going to get home, when he has completely the wrong key.
Lmaoooooo
How is he even going to walk if he is completely stuffed with ham, cheese, and corn.
I just did a Production of little shop of with this puppet, rented from the same place, I absolutely love this puppet, it works so well. Honestly the current off broadway plant is probably at the same level, I would argue worse than this one for me (but the current ones tentacles are REALLY cool but the legs on this one) Maybe it’s bias but the current off-bway plant is honestly so lame compared to this. There’s so much life that they can bring to this plant. I was a tech on our production so i set this plant every day and yeah plant #4 looked sorta weird BUT number 2 and 3 were insane. I love those puppets so much and every time I see this video I will be reminded of our amazing production of little shop.
I can't believe they got Colonel Sanders to play Mr Mushnik!
I’m so happy about it too!!!😂😂😂
i thought it was Ted Levine lol
It's Richard Dreyfus
This Audrey II is hysterical!
In the past year, which was my senior year of High School, we put on our own production of Little Shop of Horrors using that exact same puppet. It must have been from the same prop rental place lol 😂. I was the voice of the plant, aka “the Doowop Gardner”. It was a fabulous show and one that I will miss to pieces 😊.
Im not a fan of whoever played Seymour but goddamn do him and Audrey II have fantastic chemistry
This is really good. Both singers are great
Is there any more video from this production available? It's great.
That is some impressive puppetry!
The puppeteer was fantastic but the song was let down by the song sped up too much
That puppet is amazing!
This is why I like lighter puppets for this song. They did a great job making it look good, yet light enough for it to be made super expressive
Audrey 2 looks like a velociraptor
I just love this dudes note!
i will admit this is amazing puppertry. and ispeak as ive seen a performance back in 2014 of this. when i could work out where the 10th person was it wasnt untill the end when they popped out from the curtians and took ther bow. was such a realistic performance
Holy shit, this Audrey 2 is incredible
Is it being puppeteered from underneath the stage? The size of the pot and its position says a lot. Like "We put the plant here and it's ready to be manipulated from under the stage." Maybe it's raised a bit but a dark curtain hides the puppeteer/s
That puppeteer sounds just like Levi Stubbs
I always thought “couldn’t he just open a blood drive or something for it?”
Please tell me there's more videos of this production!
The amount of leaves could be hiding the guy.
Omg this puppets movement is so satisfying
YES! Loved it that worked so well
Best audrey2 voice ever
Levi Stubbs was one of the greatest
Wow, astonishing!!! BRAVO!!!
Who is that Audrey ii and when can I hear more of him???
Very good rhythm for a plant!
Seymore makes my uterus hurt
Honestly I think that there are some parts that they are rushed and slow and where are the girls?
plant: lets dogs out
seymour:💃
This would be an awesome Sarlacc pit cosplay!
What production is this?!
Tulle Rules - MPC Theater Company in Monterey, California
Little Shop of Horrors
@@kyleandrewrichlin9128can’t find it online
Are we just gonna ignore the fact that Audrey II looks a bit like a T-Rex?
This Audrey ll is GREAT
omg i love this plant's voice! this role calls for aggressive blues and this dude has it. why aren't the singers credited?
This Audrey two is so good 👍👍👍
This is fantastic.
Can you show "Suppertime" and "Don't Feed The Plants" next?
I’ve been looking for years now. What production is this???
The voice actor sounds just like Levi Stubbs.
1:32
The Costume!!!! Amazing!
これオードリーの漫才観るよりも楽しいし、面白いわ。
I wanna know how they manipulate the plant unseen? Are they in it? Under it? Haha
It's a full body puppet! The puppeteer inside uses an arm to operate each jaw and sticks their legs in the roots.
@@hammdogporkington3058 When we did this at my high school, that's how we handled this puppet with a professional puppeteer. This version was 100x better though
Good thing this was recorded cus I never got to see the play
Bro on the thumbnail Seymour looks like he's about to whip
This is a great puppet. I wish I could build one.
In my opinion it was a bit rushed and fast
Oh man... das ist GENIAL👍🥳🥳🥳🥳💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
What Theatre produced this?
GASP WE WENT TO THIS FOREVER AGO!
To be fair, this doesn't look like it has any metal in it.
Fabulous, characterful Audrey, dreadful, overacting, tone deaf Seymour. He cannot seem to straighten his legs and body, adopt a normal posture, or move in a normal way. Very annoying to watch.
Like the dancing at the beginning 👍
Where and when was this performed/recorded? Who was the voice?
any info on the production?
MPC Theater Company - Monterey, California - 2002