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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
1984-5: First performance in South Africa 18 August 1984 at the [[André Huguenet Theatre]] Johannesburg. Directed by [[Constance Grappo]] for [[Pieter Toerien]] and [[Cameron Mackintosh]], presented at the [[Baxter Theatre]] in January and February 1985. The cast: [[Stella Khumalo]], [[Connie Chiume]], [[Mandisa Dlanga]], [[Graham Clarke]], [[Victor Melleney]], [[Andre Hattingh]], [[Eddie Eckstein]], [[Michael Blaise]], [[Mike Huff]]. Set designed by [[Edward T. Gianfrancesco]], associate producer [[Richard Loring]], choreography by [[Wendy de la Harpe]], lighting and production management by [[Jannie Swanepoel]].  
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1984-5: First performance in South Africa 18 August 1984 at the [[André Huguenet Theatre]] Johannesburg. Directed by [[Constance Grappo]] for [[Pieter Toerien]] and [[Cameron Mackintosh]]. Presented at the [[Baxter Theatre]] in January and February 1985 and at the [[Alhambra Theatre]] Durban directly afterwards. The cast: [[Stella Khumalo]], [[Connie Chiume]], [[Mandisa Dlanga]], [[Graham Clarke]], [[Victor Melleney]], [[Andre Hattingh]], [[Eddie Eckstein]], [[Michael Blaise]], [[Mike Huff]]. Set designed by [[Edward T. Gianfrancesco]], associate producer [[Richard Loring]], choreography by [[Wendy de la Harpe]], lighting and production management by [[Jannie Swanepoel]].  
  
 
1999: Staged at [[The Johannesburg Civic Theatre]] from March to July 1999, directed by [[Janice Honeyman]], with [[Graham Clarke]], [[Joseph Clark]], [[Drummond Marais]], [[Jill Middlekop]], [[Lucia Mthiyane]] and others.
 
1999: Staged at [[The Johannesburg Civic Theatre]] from March to July 1999, directed by [[Janice Honeyman]], with [[Graham Clarke]], [[Joseph Clark]], [[Drummond Marais]], [[Jill Middlekop]], [[Lucia Mthiyane]] and others.

Revision as of 10:12, 9 July 2015

A comedy horror rock musical by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, about a hapless florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood and flesh.

Original play

It opened Off-Off-Broadway in 1982 and then moved to the Off-Broadway Orpheum Theatre, where it played for more than five years.

Translations and adaptations

It was filmed in 1986 as The Little Shop of Horrors.

Performance history in South Africa

1984-5: First performance in South Africa 18 August 1984 at the André Huguenet Theatre Johannesburg. Directed by Constance Grappo for Pieter Toerien and Cameron Mackintosh. Presented at the Baxter Theatre in January and February 1985 and at the Alhambra Theatre Durban directly afterwards. The cast: Stella Khumalo, Connie Chiume, Mandisa Dlanga, Graham Clarke, Victor Melleney, Andre Hattingh, Eddie Eckstein, Michael Blaise, Mike Huff. Set designed by Edward T. Gianfrancesco, associate producer Richard Loring, choreography by Wendy de la Harpe, lighting and production management by Jannie Swanepoel.

1999: Staged at The Johannesburg Civic Theatre from March to July 1999, directed by Janice Honeyman, with Graham Clarke, Joseph Clark, Drummond Marais, Jill Middlekop, Lucia Mthiyane and others.

2015: Presented by Pieter Toerien at the Theatre on the Bay 24 April - June 6 2015. Directed by Steven Stead, designed by Greg King and starring Alan Committie as Seymour Krelborn.

Sources

Little Shop of Horrors theatre programme, 1985.

Barrow, Brian & Williams-Short, Yvonne (eds.). 1988. Theatre Alive! The Baxter Story 1977-1987

Citizen, 28 January 1999.

Little Shop of Horrors in Wikipedia[1]

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