LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

Little Shop of Horrors
Geffen / Warner Bros., 1986, Color, 96 minutes, ***
Released December, 1986

Business is blooming at Mushnik's Flower Shop. Customers are rushing in to see the exotic potted plant called Audrey II. But if they knew the truth, they'd rush right out. Audrey II is more vampire than vegetable. It's a "mean, green mother from outer space" who's about to fill Mushnik's little shop with kooky horrors.

Little Shop of Horrors fist flowered in the same-titled 1960 Roger Corman movie, resprouted into the smash 1980 off-Broadway musical and now comes to full comic bloom in this star-packed, laugh-filled dazzler, the stage musical's 1986 film adaptation that boasts Academy Award nominations for Best Original Song ("Mean Green Mother from Outer Space") and Best visual Effects.
Produced by: David Geffen
Associate Producers: David Orton, Denis Holt
Directed by: Frank Oz
Screenplay by: Howard Ashman
Based on the musical stage play, Book and Lyrics by Howard Ashman, Music by Alan Menken,
which was based on the film by Roger Corman, screenplay by Charles Griffith,
Originally produced Off-Off Broadway by The WPA Theatre
Produced as an Off Broadway Production by The WPA Theatre, David Geffen, Carmeron Mackintosh and The Shubert Organization
Original Motion Picture Score by: Miles Goodman
Musical Supervisor: Robby Merkin
Musical Coordinator: Jim Henrikson
Music Produced by: Bob Gaudio
Orchestrations and Musical Arrangements by: Robby Merkin and Bob Gaudio
Vocal Arranger: Robert Billig
Lyrics by: Howard Ashman
Music by: Alan Menken
Choreographer: Pat Garrett
Production Designed by: Roy Walker
Art Director: Steven Spence
Set Decorator: Tessa Davies
Costumes Designed by: Marit Allen
"Audrey II" Designed and Created by: Lyle Conway
Director of Photography: Robert Paynter
Special Visual Effects by: Bran Ferren, Lyle Conway, Martin Gutteridge
Filmed in PanaVision, Color by Technicolor
Film Editor: John Jympson
Filmed entirely at Pinewood Studios, LTD., Buckinghamshire, England

Awards: Nominated for Best Music, Original Song ("Mean Green Mother from Outer Space"), Alan Menken (music) and Howard Ashman (lyrics); Best Effects, Visual Effects (Bran Ferren, Lyle Conway, Martin Gutteridge)

Cast: Rick Moranis [Seymour Krelborn], Ellen Greene [Audrey], Levi Stubbs [Voice of Audrey II], Vincent Gardenia [Mushnik], Steve Martin [Orin Scrivello. D.D.S.], Tichina Arnold [Crystal], Tisha Campbell [Chiffon], Michelle Weeks [Ronette], James Belushi [Patrick Martin], John Candy [Wink Wilkinson], Christopher Guest [The First Customer], Bill Murray [Arthur Denton], Additional Players: Stanley Jones [Narrator], Bertice Reading [Downtown Old Woman], Ed Wiley [Downtown Bum #1], Alan Tilvern [Downtown Bum #2], John Scott Martin [Downtown Bum #3], Vincent Wong [Chinese Florist], Mak Wilson, Danny Cunningham, Danny John-Jules, Gary Palmer, Paul Swaby [Doo Wop Street Singers], Mildred Shay [Second Customer, Melissa Wiltsie [Third Customer], Kevin Scott [Fourth Customer], Barbara Rosenblat [Fifth Customer], Adeen Fogle [Radio Station Assistant], Kelly Huntley, Paul Reynolds [Audrey and Seymour's Kids], Miriam Margolyes [Dental Nurse], Abbie Dabner [Boy Patient], Frank Dux [Second Patient], Peter Whitman [Patient on Ceiling], Heather Henson [Girl Patient], Judith Morse [Girl's Mother], Bob Sherman [Agent], Doreen Hermitage ["Life" Magazine Lady], Kerry Shale [Her Assistant], Robert Arden [Network Exec #1], Stephen Hoye [Network Exec #2], Bob Sessions [Network Exec #3], Michael J. Shannon [Television Reporter]

Musical Program: [0:00] Little Shop of Horrors (sung and danced by Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold and Tisha Campbell with Bill Mitchell behind titles); [0:07] Downtown / Skid Row (sung by Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell, Ellen Greene, Rick Moranis, Donny Gerrard and Ensemble); [0:13] Da-Doo (spoken by Rick Moranis; sung by Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell and The Do Wops: Nick Curtis, Peter Beckett, Alan Carvel, Phil Nicholl, Lindsay Benson and Donny Gerrard); [0:17] Grow for Me (sung by Rick Moranis, Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold and Tisha Campbell); [0:25] Somewhere That's Green (sung by Ellen Greene); [0:30] Some Fun Now (sung by Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold and Tisha Campbell); [0:34] Dentist (sung by Steve Martin, Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold and Tisha Campbell with Robby Merkin and Robert Billig); [0:40] Git It / Feed Me (sung by Levi Stubbs, Rick Moranis, Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold and Tisha Campbell); [0:59] Suddenly Seymour (sung by Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold and Tisha Campbell); [1:04] Suppertime (sung by Levi Stubbs, Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold and Tisha Campbell); [1:08] The Meek Shall Inherit (sung by Rick Moranis, Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell with Robby Merkin, Frank Oz, Doreen Hermitage, Bob Sessions, Stephen Hoye, Gary Martin and Bob Sherman); [1:18] Suddenly Seymour (reprised by Rick Moranis and Ellen Greene); [1:21] Mean Green Mother from Outer Space (sung by Levi Stubbs and Chorus); [1:28] Reprisals of most of the songs behind end credits