‘Little Shop of Horrors’ set for the B-OHS stage this Friday, Saturday
The thespians at Butterfield-Odin Public High School (B-OHS) will be onstage in the school’s large gym/auditorium this Friday, April 29 and Saturday, April 30, as they present the horror/comedy/rock musical, Little Shop of Horrors. A FREE senior citizen performance will be held on Friday afternoon, beginning at 12:45 p.m. Curtain time for both Friday and Saturday evening shows is 7 p.m. Ticket price is $6 for adults and $4 for students.
Directing the production is Lisa Shellum.
Little Shop of Horrors, by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, tells the tale of a hapless florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood and flesh. The musical is based on the low-budget 1960s “black comedy” or “dark comedy” film, The Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Roger Corman. (Black comedy or dark comedy is a comic work that makes light of serious and/or taboo subject matter. It corresponds to the earlier concept of gallows humor, and is often controversial due to its subject matter.
The music, composed by Menken in the style of the early 1960s music genres of rock-and-roll, doo-wop and Motown, includes several well-known tunes, including the title song, “Skid Row (Downtown),” “Somewhere That’s Green” and “Suddenly, Seymour.”
