Little Shop of Horrors plays off-Broadway at the Westside Theatre and has become a huge hit. This cult classic musical by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken features a man-eating plant, sadistic dentist, and sweet shopkeeper with a crush on his colleague. The New York Times said, “A certain carnivorous plant has been repotted in Hell’s Kitchen, and I am delighted to report that it’s thriving there…[Michael] Mayer’s interpretation summons the shivery elation I felt seeing ‘Shop’ at the East Village’s Orpheum Theatre nearly four decades earlier. It restores the show to its original scale and sensibility, reminding us of the special potency of grisly things that come in small, impeccably wrapped packages.”
Why teenagers will love Little Shop of Horrors: This show has it all: a man-eating plant, a sadistic dentist, young love, and killer songs. And with a rotating cast of stars (Darren Criss, Jonathan Groff, Jeremy Jordan, Corbin Bleu, Maude Apatow, Evan Rachel Wood, and Jinkx Monsoon have all starred in this production), this is a musical worth seeing again and again.