LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS! On Black Friday!

Name: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS! On Black Friday!
Start: 2024-11-29T19:30:00-05:00
Location: Epsilon Spires

Schedule

Fri Nov 29 2024 at 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Epsilon Spires | Brattleboro, VT

Campy and fun, Little Shop Of Horrors offers a scathing critique into what capitalism asks of us, and the lengths we’ll go to fulfill it's empty promises. Join us on Black Friday for the Director's Cut with a controversal alternative ending! Entry includes popcorn and raffle to win a carnivorous plant!
Little Shop of Horrors, (1986, Dir. Frank Oz, 103 mins).
One of the great musicals of the 1980s follows a meek, down-and-out flower shop assistant Seymour (Rick Moranis), who becomes a national sensation when he discovers an exotic plant that needs human blood to survive. Soon the plant, Audrey II (an elaborate puppet created by Henson Creature Shop alumnus Lyle Conway and voiced by Levi Stubbs of The Four Tops) grows into an ill-tempered, foul-mouthed, R&B-singing carnivore. First feeding it from his own pricked fingers, Audrey II keeps growing and Seymour’s success increases, but soon he needs to move on to bigger sacrifices to appease it's insatiable thirst.. Little Shop of Horrors features a sensational Ellen Greene as Seymour’s dippy love interest Audrey, Steve Martin as a hilariously sadistic dentist, and sensational songs by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, who intended their original musical to comment on the interactions between class struggle, poverty, and racial segregation.
Upon negative test screenings, the studio made director Oz change the dark ending for public consumption. Now, over 3 decades after its theatrical release, Little Shop of Horrors has been digitally restored to its original director’s cut, featuring 20 minutes of never-before-seen footage including the full original ending in glorious color!