The Musical That Changed Disney: Little Shop of Horrors

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  @DreamsoundsVideo · 3 years ago · pinned

  What's your favorite Little Shop song?🎶

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• AN

  @angelarice8418 · 3 years ago

  Something else about the Somewhere that's Green song is that she references a bunch of sitcoms and media like Better Homes and gardens, Howdy Doody, Donna Reed etc. So, I see it as really sad because the place she's talking about doesn't exist. she's only seen it in pictures. Skid Row is the reality for all of them, and she - in the play - never makes it out. It's sadder and quite innocent

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• RU

  @Rubber_Monkey · 3 years ago

  I’m an easy gal. I see something Howard Ashman-related, I click. And also crying myself into a corner.

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• LG

  @lgarza9640 · 3 years ago

  Little shop walked so Disney renaissance could run

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• AC

  @ace_vampire13 · 3 years ago

  I watched a high school adaptation of Little Shop and was disturbed to hear everyone was constantly laughing at Audrey's character, even when she was dying, like these kids don't get it?!

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• RC

  @rcrowder85 · 11 months ago

  This musical is so much deeper than it is on the surface. ❤

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• MA

  @MarvelousMissC · 3 years ago (edited)

  Fun fact because this is my faaaavorite Broadway insider story: <br><br>Ellen Greene actually wasn’t the first choice to play Audrey. Faith Prince (best known for her turn as Adelaide in the 1992 revival of Guys and Dolls) was originally cast in the role, but had to leave the production due to a contract she couldn’t get out of. <br><br>Faith came back from said contract, only to see the show making all sorts of headlines – specifically praising Ellen’s breakout performance as Audrey. People were nervous that she would be upset or angry about this missed opportunity, but she simply said that it wasn’t her time, and Ellen was more than deserving of the role. And when asked how she was able to handle herself with such grace, she would reply, “After all, my name is Faith.” <br><br>Faith ended up being the first replacement for Audrey, and of course went on to play a role with a very similar personality and range a few years later. And in the most perfect full circle moment, Ellen played Adelaide in the 2009 Hollywood Bowl production of Guys and Dolls! <br><br>(Also, Howard idealizing Little Shop as the “Dames at Sea of horror movies”…. absolutely GENIUS.)

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• KI

  @KidBohemia · 3 years ago

  This is such an insightful analysis, and I enjoyed the whole video. &nbsp;I also think it’s valuable to mention that Little Shop of Horrors is infused with an unmistakable Jewish aesthetic. &nbsp;Seymore and Mr. Mushnik are clearly meant to represent Jewish character traits, and the dialogue is filled with Yiddish terms and Jewish inflections. &nbsp;This is unsurprising when we consider the fact that Menken and Ashman are both Jewish. &nbsp;This has been an ongoing theme in Menken’s career. &nbsp;On at least one occasion, he said that “Poor Unfortunate Souls” felt very Jewish. &nbsp;He also wrote an oratorio called “King David” with lyrics by Tim Rice.

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• GL

  @Glormoni · 3 years ago (edited)

  I agree with you about Audrey’s character being aspirational. I’m a trans woman and growing up, I understood how Audrey felt romanticizing the idea of being a housewife in a white suburb. I personally never wanted that for myself, but the desperation that goes into just wanting to be somewhere that makes her feel safe where she can be herself is something that I deeply relate to, and only gets more depressing for me the more the years go by and I see what the reality of the world I live in actually is. <br><br><br>Coincidentally, I bought tickets to watch this on Broadway next month and I can’t wait to finally see this play live and bawl my eyes out at Suddenly Seymour and Somewhere that’s Green. <br><br>Thank you for making this video. I have complicated feelings about LSOH that makes it easier to explain to people why I like it so much now that you put it in words.

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• AV

  @averyeml · 3 years ago (edited)

  A couple weeks ago I watched all the big documentaries on Disney+, including Howard. I already knew a lot about Howard Ashman’s life but I’d never paid attention to the timeline of events until that movie, which made me realize how relatively fast the Little Shop to his final Disney work timeline was. Then I watched Little Shop of Horrors for the first time in a good while and honestly? I cried because in the scope of it all it takes on a whole other level of meta depth.

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• FU

  @Furore2323 · 3 years ago

  Thank you for this, it honestly moved me to tears.

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• TH

  @TheLostWorldFanChann · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esiADqA2FXU&amp;t=1031">17:11</a> I can&apos;t stop replaying this. . . . Help! 😟

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