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MESA ENCORE THEATRE AND SKIDROW FLORISTS CONSUMING AUDIENCES WITH FEAR
On the 3rd day of the month of April, in a latter year of a decade extremely similar to our own, audiences will suddenly encounter a deadly threat to their very existence. This terrifying enemy will surface, as such enemies often do, in the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places…Mesa Encore Theatre’s production of Little Shop of Horrors at Mesa Arts Center.
This hysterically campy cult classic has eaten its way into the hearts of thousands of audiences over a long and diversified germination period: starting as a low-budget D horror film, it was then adapted for an Off-Broadway musical, hopped coasts to become a star-studded, Oscar-winning Hollywood movie, and then swept back across the country yet again for a well-deserved multi-million dollar Broadway smash.
Similarly, Valley victims…um …audiences… will fall in love with the well-known quirky characters which include: a frugal and flailing florist shop owner, Mr. Mushnik (Jeffrey J. Davey), his socially backward, yet lovable shop boy, Seymore (Daniel Cardenas), a voluptuous, self-deprecating beauty, Audrey (Jenny Hintze), her abusive, sadomasochistic dentist boyfriend, Orin (Toby Yatso), a trio of hooligan Supremes-like urchins (Maris Fernandes, Aryn Nemiroff & Elizabeth Partel), and of course, America’s most amazing – and largest – unidentified plant, Audrey II (Brett Aiken: Voice, Brian Elam: Operator). This overwhelmingly talented cast will also include the talents of Indiia Wilmott in a variety of roles that might remind patrons of the Rick Moranis film of 1986.
Mesa Encore Theatre’s production will be directed by Richard A. Leigh, musically directed by Debra Jo Davey, and choreographed by Lauren Margison. This artistic team is excited to explore the darker, more adult side of the humor in this raunchy musical romp (adapted by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken – the theatrical geniuses who blessed audiences of both stage and screen with Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid) in an intimate black box setting, with a rockin’ live band of some of the Valley’s best musicians.
Tickets are on sale now. Performances are scheduled April 3rd to April 13th. Evening performances are at 7:00pm; Saturday and Sunday matinees are at 2:00pm.
Prices for single tickets are: Adults $25, Senior/Student $20. Be sure to ask about preferred seating at the Studio theatre’s special Cabaret tables, including drinks of your choice. Check for discount tickets on www.showup.com.
Reservations: Call Mesa Arts Center Box Office at 480.644.6500.
All performances at the Mesa Arts Center
1 East Main Street Mesa, Arizona
April 3 - 13, 2008
