[SilviaBlack]

I just got the soundtrack for christmas and have been listing to it lovingly.

Now, I relize that this show is a comedy and a spoof but still, the more I listen to it the more I find some parts sad and disturbing, particularly parts like "It's Just the Gas." I know this may be obvious but I just find it cool/creepy that a seeminly silly show can get to me.

Erm...yeah does anyone else agree?

[Jekkienumber24601]

Which one did you get? The Original or Revival?

[SilviaBlack]

Revival.

[Jekkienumber24601]

Good choice. Yes a little disturbing. The part that gets me is the ACT 1 Finale right after It's Just the Gas with the Feed me stuff.

[norayouadora]

[singin34]

LSOH is fantastic! The lyrics are great, music is touching and the songs have that "feel" to them. It's an amazing balance of different voices that come together and make this show great.

[thinkofMerylStreep]

I always get a little creeped out when Audrey II first starts talking, as well as the Act I finale. My brother hates Don't Feed the Plants, when they sing "and this theatre!" It's such an awesome show, though.

[superdave]

It really is kind of twisted. And if you played it from another angle, it could be a sick twisted, disturbing musical. But since most of the songs are really silly and campy-- It comes off being really funny.

It has spawned several musicals like it, such as, "Reefer Madness"--which if you dont own the DVD to Reefer Madness, by all means GET IT. The style of musical that LSOH and Reefer Madness deal with serious subjects like Drug Addiction and Greed--and present it in a wild zany format that makes the serious subjects...funny.

I think that kind of writing is brilliant and I love it. Little Shop is the pioneer of these kind of musicals.

[dwarves r very upsetting]

I agree with superdave. It is so creative how they take serious topics like murder, drug addiction, greed. Then make them funny. With great songs that you like to belt along with at home. I love this show one of my biggest complaints is how they changed the ending in the movie.

[thinkofMerylStreep]

[aNGie_BaBY]

LSOH is a creepy show...

But it is a great mix of genres..its a B Grade Horror film & sappy love story. The horrors are lessened by the unbelievability of the story, and yet we are drawn into the plot.
The movie is certainly less depressing than the show (disappointingly) as it really has a hard look at abuse, morality, love etc... great stuff

who would have thought it could come from a film made in a few days? this show is a classic!

[OnceUponATime]

I'd say it's more campy than creepy.

But I like dark humor.

[sherwills]

In the current London production, one critic actually almost psycho-analysed the show. It mentioned how the plant in this production (and I agree) resembles a phallus.

This is of course the plant that gave a new sense of power to Seymour and enabled him to get the girl... so in the begining when he was singing to the plant "Please grow for me", it sort of has a double meaning "apparently". Interesting and disturbing but loved the show indeed!

[Maid Marian]

Ugh, Ugh. I don't want to think about that.

I tend to think of the show as along the campy, "black comedy" line of Rocky Horror et al, although I did see a YouTube vid of a production that played the dentist scene straight and that made it a whole lot creepier somehow.

[bwayobsessed]

I love the dark humor of the show. That's just my personal choice. If the show were played straight, the show would be so much creepier, but since it's presented in a campy way, it's completely brillant.

[RTTugger1977]

I only was truly disturbed by LSoH 20 years ago. I was 9 and was seeing it on stage for the first time (bear in mind I had already seen the 1986 film beforehand). It was traumatizing, particularly seeing Audrey get fed to that plant!

However, in 1999 I made friends with a plethora of people who had just done LSoH for their community theatre, and when I saw the video of their performance, it helped because by that point I was 21, and when Audrey got fed to the plant, it REALLY helped that the woman playing her was standing right behind me. I even remarked "See you when I get there!" when she got eaten, and she laughed.

Plus, the original film has been a favorite of mine for 17 years. I was 13 when I first saw it, and when Seymour threw himself in the plant (Audrey didn't get eaten), I actually laughed. It's all in the presentation.