Encores! Little Shop of Horrors Review Thread

[Littleshopofcarrie]

Posted: 6/30/15 at 9:23pm

Performances start TOMORROW! Can't wait to hear some reviews. Jennifer Tepper tweeted a picture with the quote "I have legitimately been crying for hour. I have never heard New York City Center as silent as it was the ENTIRE TIME Ellen Greene sang 'Somewhere That's Green'. Actual theatre magic." 

Here is a link to the tweet for those who are interested.

 

Who is going? Wish I had gotten tickets before they all went down to $500.

[NJ_BroadwayGirl]

Posted: 6/30/15 at 9:49pm

I'm going to the matinee on Thursday. I lucked out and was able to snag good seats right when it was announced that they added that performance.

[BroadwayKiwi]

Posted: 6/30/15 at 11:02pm

Well Ellen Greene was ageless, voice-full, and as heartbreaking as you would expect her to be, coming back to the role 33 years after opening - but Jake Gyllenhall was a revelation as Seymour. Such a voice...completely perfect in the role...and loved by the crowd who saw him tonight. Those two together, embracing, at the end of Suddenly, Seymour...that was theatrical spirituality.
If you didn't manage to get a ticket to this...keep trying. It's the theatre event of the season. Remarkable. Venus and Jupiter know what they're up to...

 

 

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 6/30/15 at 11:16pm

You think this will transfer kiwi? Perhaps the Brooks Atkinson?

[AntV]

Posted: 6/30/15 at 11:21pm

Staged or concert? Script in hand or no?

[disneybroadwayfan22]

Posted: 6/30/15 at 11:22pm

Broadway transfer next? :3

[FranklinShepard_Inc]

Posted: 6/30/15 at 11:29pm

There was an invited dress rehearsal to fill the house, per usual Encores style? That saps the event and anticipation out of tomorrow's performance. I guess tomorrow's audience won't be the "first" to see Ellen return to the role. That's a big reason folks bought tickets.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 6/30/15 at 11:35pm

There's an invited dress to everything. It's usually for people "in the biz." It doesn't really take anything away from the first performance, as it's not a real performance. 

[RW3]

Posted: 6/30/15 at 11:54pm

So, Jake can sing?

[gleek4114]

Posted: 6/30/15 at 11:54pm

I am so bummed I don't live in the city and I am heartbroken I will be missing this. I hope it transfers, but I highly doubt it will. Who knows, right? Violet got a full production because of a one night only concert. It would be interesting if they put this on Broadway. Ellen could get a Tony Nomination for the role she created 33 years ago. She's never performed the show on Broadway, so unless the committee's comes up with some BS reason, she would be eligible. 

[ACL2006]

Posted: 7/1/15 at 12:02am

I would buy a ticket ASAP if this transferred to Broadway. Maybe it should, even for just 3-4 months.

[LightsOut90]

Posted: 7/1/15 at 12:48am

they'd have to recast Taren as he goes back to SNL in september. 

[Littleshopofcarrie]

Posted: 7/1/15 at 9:04am

I'd LOVE to see this come to Broadway. Can someone who went last night tell me about what the plant, if there was one, looked like? Was it even staged or just as a concert?

[LarryD2]

Posted: 7/1/15 at 9:09am

I highly doubt this will move to Broadway. Gyllenhaal and Killam have other commitments...and let's not forget that Ellen Greene is, ahem, a bit mature to be playing Audrey in a traditional production.

[egnarotsew]

Posted: 7/1/15 at 9:12am

I saw a photo on instagram showing the cast on stage and Eddie Cooper is in a green coat. Ellen Greene said in an interview that this is a concert.

[gleek4114]

Posted: 7/1/15 at 9:19am

Even if this doesn't spark a full production, it would be wonderful if this production got its own cast album.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/1/15 at 9:25am

That saps the event and anticipation out of tomorrow's performance. I guess tomorrow's audience won't be the "first" to see Ellen return to the role. That's a big reason folks bought tickets.

 

Those people should get the eff over it. 

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/1/15 at 9:32am

She probably gave everything she had to those people last night who didn't even pay. Now she's gonna suck...

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/1/15 at 9:34am

She has robbed them of the ticket-holding equivalent of posting "first" on a web article.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/1/15 at 9:37am

In all seriousness though, do the Encores people not understand how important it is to be able to go online and say "FIRST", for a production that they paid actual money to see? I really don't see any difference between this and an attack on the street while someone is yelling homophobic slurs. 

[newintown]

Posted: 7/1/15 at 9:38am

Not to mention she's been "returning" to the role over and over again in the last 30 years. This is hardly a long-awaited first-time-ever.

[tazber]

Posted: 7/1/15 at 9:40am

You really don't see how this is so much worse than a homophobic attack?

 

Updated On: 7/1/15 at 09:40 AM

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/1/15 at 9:40am

"FIRST(ish)!"

[NJ_BroadwayGirl]

Posted: 7/1/15 at 9:44am

Looks like a couple of posters were there last night. Can anyone give a running time? 

[Kad]

Posted: 7/1/15 at 9:50am

Little Shop generally only runs 1:40, with intermission. I can't imagine this is much of a deviation from that.