LSOH

[zippyjen]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 8:08pm

What are your thoughts on the revival vs the original and the movie?

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 8:10pm

Movie = Perfection

[zippyjen]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 8:11pm

I watched the movie last night and i loved it! I also loved the revival. Unfortunatelly i did not see the original.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 8:13pm

Liked the revival as they have the songs with Mushnick missing from the movie. Show has a better ending also.

[Tiny-Toon]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 8:17pm

I <3 the revival!!!

[Joshua488]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 8:23pm

I really liked the revival! I liked seeing the "true" LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, as opposed to the squeaky-clean film version. I also thoroughly enjoyed the extended songs.

The film is still great, though! Nothing beats Ellen Greene. In some ways, I prefer the film's soundtrack versus the revival and original soundtracks; especially the title track. Tisha Campbell, Michelle Weeks and Tichina Arnold's vocals as the Urchins are impeccable on the film soundtrack.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 8:27pm

The revival, at the time, was probably the most UNDERrated show on Broadway...

[zippyjen]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 8:30pm

Even though the movie's ending was different than the show and songs were missing, i really enjoyed it. The show however i love more! I only have the original show recording but it is so great!

edit: I agree that the revival was underated. Has anyone seen the original off bway production?

Updated On: 2/15/05 at 08:30 PM

[Dreamcatcher]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 10:13pm

I love them both to death but I prefer the more realistic ending where Seymour, Audrey, Mushnik and Orin die in the end as opposed to the movie ending. But both were fantastic. I don't know if you also are talking about the equity touring but the cast for that is phenomenal. Maybe I'm biased because I've been a fan of Anthony and Tari's for a long time but them plus the Urchins were awsome!

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 10:14pm

The revival was absolutely terrible. Hunter was good. Douglass Sills and Rob Bartlett were also fine - but Kerry Butler was terrible, and the direction was typical Jerry Zak's crap. LOVE the movie.

[insomniak]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 10:16pm

Which CD would you all reccommend and why? It seems to be split.

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 10:16pm

To this day, I don't have a clue why Alice Ripley wasn't rehired after the Coral Gables fiasco. One of the best Audreys I've ever seen without impersonating Ellen Greene and truly making the role her own. A beautiful performance that should have made it on Broadway.

[Dreamcatcher]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 10:18pm

I wish the equity tour would make a recording. Anthony, Tari, and Micheal James Leslie were amazing. I aqquired a *cough* unofficial recording of the whole show and it's pretty good quality but its literally a recording of the entire show so there are long pauses where I don't know what's going on. :-P They need to get into a studio and make an official recording.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 10:28pm

The best recording is the original off-bway cast.

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 10:33pm

I agree the movie would be almost perfection if they didn't change the ending. Stupid audiences who like happy endings. But I still put it up there was one of the greatest movies and IMO, it's the best CD to get. You have Ellen Greene as Audrey and she just completely is great in the role both visually and vocally and NOTHING can compare to Steve Martin's "Dentist." I'd get the movie CD for that alone, but to this day even though it was such a small role, I still think it was one of the greatest performances of his career. And Rick Moranis' singing really impressed me.

I also may be slightly biased with the revival I got tickets in January but there was a huge snowstorm so I postdated and I ended up with the new cast...with Joey Fat One...ahh! The highlight of the show was when he got eaten and I cheered. I also heard whoever I had who replaced Douglas Sills didn't even compare to him, his Dentist was pretty bland. I really wished I could have seen Hunter. Stupid weather.

[bjivie2]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 10:35pm

The revival was a travesty to the legacy of Little Shop of Horrors. Kerry Butler was horribly miscast as Audrey, and the direction took all of the heart out of the piece. If anything it was too squeaky clean, and it had the three most white-sounding black girls I've ever heard. Everything was too clean and pretty. It also just doesn't belong in a big Broadway house.

[PennyLou]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 10:37pm

I don't like the movie because I like the ending that was writing for the show and I like that the Urchins are more involved in the show.. I also I enjoyed the revile. I saw all of the cast at one point or another and I like Kerry, hunter, douglas and Rob the best out of all the people I saw in that production but Douglas one u/s was really good as well and so was the Urichins u/s.

[ShuQ]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 10:39pm

The movie was great....probably what most people saw first, which may be why they love it so much. The casting of the film was also done incredibly and the film still has effect on productions of the show today. Like many, the only thing I didn't like about it was it's ending.

The current tour is pretty awesome as well. Didn't see it on B-way but it sounds like the tour is better...?

[insomniak]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 10:41pm

Thanks. I'll look into the off-bway cast and see what I think of the movie.

Posted: 2/15/05 at 10:43pm

I once read a funny story about that "ending" for the movie of "LSOH": After the original (broadway) anding was filmed & tested in front of an audience, the Producer decided that they needed a "Happy" ending, except the filming had already ended and the sets had been destroyed. So they built a completely different (in every way) set of a house with a picket fence and summoned the cast back to shoot this completely arbitrary, tacked on endind...only they couldn't find one of the "Urchins." So they shot it without her, using a stand in....which is why, at the end, as they pan across the trio of urchins, the camera pans down and only shows the third one's feet and then pans over to show the plant. It's because the third "urchin" is a stand in.

I always thought that perfectly summed up what was wrong with that film.

Posted: 2/15/05 at 11:00pm

hmm. arent there two versions of the movie? 1960 and like 1980somethin? ive only seen one, i like the rick moranis movie but i certainly wouldnt watch it over and over again- gotta be in the mood. i enjoyed the revival too but also not a favorite. although I loved the ending of the show and I did see it a couple times.

[Dreamcatcher]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 11:28pm

Personally, I think the current tour is alot better then the broadway version but that's just me. I think they cast it better and the Urchins in the tour just stole the show. Every time they sang they blew me away.

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 11:34pm

Mistress, the first LSOH movie was made in the 60s. It was famous because there was a studio that was unused for 3 days so some guy decided to make the movie and it was famous for being made in 3 days and also it was the first movie Jack Nicholson was in-he plays the massochist patient that Bill Murray plays in the newer film. Howard Ashman and Alan Menken then took this movie and made it into the off-broadway musical, and the new movie was based on the musical.

Updated On: 2/15/05 at 11:34 PM

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 11:38pm

Personally, I think the guy that played Seymore in the Off-Broadway recording is kinda bad. I much prefer Rick Morranis over him and Hunter picks a good spot between the two (Even though I still prefer Rick). And everything about the movie soundtrack is beyone perfect. LOVE IT!!!

[La Vie Boheme]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 11:39pm

I loved the "doo-wop" trio in the revival, they sounded amazing!