![]() “He’s got that big old, booming, deep, soulful voice.”īecca Johnson as Audrey, gets friendly with her Venus flytrap counterpart, Audrey II. ![]() He was in the Spotlight’s “Miracle on 34 th Street” in 2019, and has sung Audrey II before. It just felt right, I guess.”Īnd Kevin Moore, as the deep-voiced, imposing Audrey II, does his part from off-stage, not visible to the audience. “It’s easier to manage, and so this is a smaller cast. She always told me, ‘You’d be such a good Audrey some day,’ and I was kind of like, ‘yeah, yeah.’ I never thought I’d have the chance to actually play her, so it’s very exciting for me.”Ĭompared to pre-Covid shows, Spotlight wanted to bring back smaller shows, with smaller casts, Tubbs said. “This is a show I’ve loved my whole life,” she said of “Little Shop.” “My mom introduced me to the movie when I was really young and I just loved it from the beginning. “Also, she’s just a very out-there character, and I gravitate toward those types of characters.” In August 2019, she memorably played the flamboyant over-dramatic mother in “Matilda” at the Spotlight. “Audrey gets to belt and I love belting,” Becca said. Jacob Johnson is Seymour in Spotlight Theatre’s “Little Shop of Horrors.”Īwkward coworker of Seymour (the object of his affections), who is dating the sadistic Orin Scrivello, D.D.S. Tubbs said this was his favorite show growing up, and he loved the 1986 movie version (directed by Frank Oz). Over time, though, Seymour discovers Audrey II’s out-of-this-world origins and relentless march towards global domination. This foul-mouthed, R&B-singing carnivore promises unending fame and fortune to the down-and-out Krelborn as long as he keeps feeding it human blood. 24 at 1800 7 th Ave., Moline.īased on a Roger Corman B-movie, non-musical cult classic (1960), in the 1982 off-Broadway hit, the meek floral assistant Seymour Krelborn stumbles across a new breed of plant he names “Audrey II” - after his coworker crush, Audrey. In the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places…ĭirected by Spotlight co-owner Brent Tubbs, and starring Jacob Johnson as Seymour and Becca Johnson (no relation) as Audrey, the Alan Menken/Howard Ashman musical is a dream come true for all three. The human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existenceĪnd this terrifying enemy surfaced as such enemies often do ![]() In an early year of a decade not too long before our own On the twenty-first day of the month of September The female trio in “Little Shop” is comprised of Kirsten Sindelar, left, Lillian Maynard and Rebecca Casad.
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