Favorite Little Shop Highlights

The dynamite ending along with Douglas Sills "Dentist" song does it for me

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I love watching the Audrey 2 move around. Especially during Feed me (Git it. I love Kerry Butler's voice so Somewhere thats Green is one of the highlights for me. I also think Dentist is great

The Ronnettes really set the mood of the show in that first number because they come on stage with SO MUCH energy and attitude that you can't help but smile and tap your foot. When they came on and blew me away, I was SO excited to see the rest of the show. Throughout the entire thing I was boppin' along with the music, trying to refrain from mouthing the words to myself, Lol.

Kerry's Suddenly Semour also blew me away, and Ellen Greene. The last time she sings "Suddenly Seymour, Shows me I can!, etc", she friggen' belts that so nicely and adds the whole diva growl thing that people get. I've listened to it over and over on my CD, I can't get enough!

I also love the "Somewhere That's Green Reprise" even thought it's funny lyrics I tune more into the amotion of the characters and when Kerry tears up so do I it's so sweet! Kerry rocks my socks! lol. I also Love don't Feed the Plant I have since I was little and they do it really will in this production!

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Bleh, your right, I always call them the Ronnettes, its my damn friend that always calls them that and it just stuck I guess, lol.

Yea I have been seeing people calling them the Ronnettes and it bugs me but I just let it go cause I thought maybe I was wrong but I always call them the Urchins. I leave off the street part lol I'm to lazy.

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I really liked the urchins, altho on the CD, they didn't have that "edge" that they had in the theater. I'm really familiar with this show, but they did blow me away with their edginess & grit, esp. in the opening number. I do love Kerry's vocals on the CD (tho I didn't love her as much in the theater)--esp in Somewhere That's Green and the reprise---I LOVE how she says "...there's PLAAAASTIC on the furniture..." And I'm sorry, but am I the only person who absolutely COULD NOT STAND Douglas Sills, either on the CD or in the theater?? Hunter is fine--tho I do think he's miscast as Seymour, but Rob Bartlett was WONDERFUL on the CD.

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I like your style WillParker, Hunter's phrasing on the cd is a major distraction to my ears. The band seems oddly tentative on the cd, I was hoping it would have the same energy as in the theater as it was one of the bright spots for me.

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Thanks, Sheekala--it's good to have approval, being a newbie!! I'm not sure exactly what it is about Hunter that bothers me...his phrasing, yes...the last line in 'Grow for me' that he speaks instead of sings bugs the hell out of me, and his voice in general is a bit to "pop" for me--all in all, I think he's just too hip or cool to be totally convincing as Seymour. Doug Sills doesn't seem to be to have any of the campy fun in his small roles that I think is required (his Mrs. Luce pisses me off), and his 'Dentist' does nothing at all for me--especially grating is the loooooooong note that he holds in the song--"IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII am your Dentist'--seems a little (no, a LOT) masturbatory & self congratulatory...I dont get why everyone is raving about him so much. What is so magnetic about this fey, non-threatening, rebel wanna-be that drew Audrey to him in the first place? Oy. Also, tempos on the CD are a bit too slow for me--esp in the opening number and 'Downtown.' And tho I did like her well enough but I'm not compltely wowed by her in general, Kerry's solo section on this song ("Downtown, where the guys are drips...") is the only time where she did very much disappoint me. BUT, I LOOOOOOOOVED the intro to "Dont Feed the Plants"--the "Subsequent to the events you have just witnessed" section.

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I know how you feel about the intensity and energy--it had lost alot from stage to disc. I was SO excited to finally find the CD down here in Nashville, and after one listening it went back into it's case, and Avenue Q went back into the CD player. What a shame.

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Yes...the prolouge is great! The strong voice comes on over the speakers and DRUM DRUM SAX SAX Little Shop! Little Shop Of Horrors! Also, is it just me or does Kerry NOT keep the "new york" accent throughout the recording?

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I completely agree. The tempos are WAY WAY WAY too slow, and Skid Row kind of lacks the rhythm it had in the show. But overall, I enjoy the recording, and I disagree about Hunter. I think he is great in the role, and I really, really enjoy his vocals on the CD. One thing that bothers me a lot- in the original "Ya Never Know" after some dialogue, one girl goes "Whoooooooooooooo'da believe'd it?" but here, the girl just says it and sings. That upsets me, but the girls are still awe-inspiring.

Updated On: 11/1/03 at 11:41 PM