New production directed by Jamie Sophia Fletcher, co-produced with Oxford Playhouse, that blends Broadway musical wit with the 1986 film's camp horror.
Little Shop of Horrors runs at Leeds Playhouse from 23 June to 17 July 2027, playing in the Quarry theatre. It's a new production directed by Jamie Sophia Fletcher, who's the venue's new associate artistic director and calls it her favourite musical of all time.
If you're not familiar with the story, it follows Seymour Krelborn, a florist's assistant who discovers a carnivorous plant he names Audrey II. The plant is a wisecracking, R&B-singing creature that offers Seymour fame, fortune and the girl of his dreams in exchange for blood. The whole thing blends Broadway musical wit with retro B-movie chaos and the camp horror of the 1986 film, so it's as much about the laughs as it is the singing.
The music is by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, the same duo behind Disney's The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast, and the show itself is based on the Roger Corman film with a screenplay by Charles Griffith. It originally opened at the Orpheum Theatre in New York City, produced by the WPA Theatre, David Geffen, Cameron Mackintosh and the Shubert Organization.
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This version is a co-production with Oxford Playhouse, and it'll be running in the Quarry theatre at Leeds Playhouse from 23 June to 17 July 2027.
