Filmed in two days
and one night, Roger Corman’s 1960 B-movie The Little Shop
of Horrors made
inventive use of comedy, horror, and science-fiction elements in a pastiche
which has since gained a cult following. Premiering in 1982, Little Shop of Horrors – Alan Menken and
Howard Ashman’s perennial musical based on Corman’s film – is a mainstay of the
amateur and community musical
circuit, as well as spawning the 1986 film-musical directed by
Frank Oz. Now, it receives a thrilling twenty-first century revival the hands
of Dean Bryant and the team that previously brought Sweet Charity to life in Sydney
in 2014.