Program
PERFORMANCE DATES:
August 1 - 10, 2025
Fridays & Saturday - 7:30pm
Sundays 2:00 pm matinees
VENUE:
Templeton Performing Arts Center
1200 Main Street,
Templeton, CA 93446
(Located on the Templeton High School Campus)
Wine Country Theatre Creative Team
Directed by Jacob Shearer
Musical Direction by Joanne Stoddard
Choreography by Doriana Sanchez
Directed by Jacob Shearer
Musical Direction by Joanne Stoddard
Choreography by Doriana Sanchez
Book & Lyrics: Howard Ashman
Music by Alan Menken
Based on the film by Roger Corman
Screenplay by Charles Griffith
Music by Alan Menken
Based on the film by Roger Corman
Screenplay by Charles Griffith
In this deviously delicious Broadway and Hollywood sci-fi smash hit, mild-mannered floral assistant Seymour Krelborn discovers a strange plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood ("Feed Me!"). As the plant, named Audrey II, grows, so does Seymour's success -- but at a deadly cost.
Featuring a catchy score that combines rock, Motown, and doo-wop, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS is a darkly comedic musical with an edge. LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS is a hilarious, dark tale of love, ambition, and the lengths we go to for success, no matter how monstrous.
Featuring a catchy score that combines rock, Motown, and doo-wop, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS is a darkly comedic musical with an edge. LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS is a hilarious, dark tale of love, ambition, and the lengths we go to for success, no matter how monstrous.
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SLIDE SHOW:
All photos: Focal Elements Photography(except as noted)
The singing, dancing, Doo-Wop trio of (from left to right) Veronica Surber as Ronnette, Grace Anthony as Crystal, and Will Schulte as Chiffon, serve as The Little Shop of Horrors' Greek Chorus as they introduce the bleak Skid Row setting and the struggling flower shop.
Seymour Krelborn, played by Peter Kremidas, a shy and awkward assistant at the failing flower shop on Skid Row, stumbles upon a strange, exotic plant after a mysterious total eclipse of the sun. He names it 'Audrey II' in honor of his kind-hearted co-worker and secret crush, Audrey.
Gracie Dodson plays Audrey, Peter Kremidas stars as the timid flower shop clerk Seymour (2nd from left), Scott Saunders is Mr. Mushnik (2nd from right), the beleaguered floral shop owner and Thomas Hanrahan is a curious customer who wants to see the strange and mysterious plant that appeared during a total eclipse of the sun.
Seymour, intrigued by the unusual plant, sings about his hopes for its growth and his desire for success in Grow for Me. Seymour encourages the plant's growth by pricking his fingertips and feeding Audrey II his own blood. This only lasts for a few days, however, and the meager drops of blood aren't enough for the quickly growing plant.
Finally, late one night the plant grows bold and speaks: "Feed me!" Audrey II (voiced by Brett Boyle) has now become a singing, dancing, jive talking, vampire vegetable!
Naive and innocent Audrey (left), played by Gracie Dodson, stands by as her sadistic dentist boyfriend (center), played by Jacob Shearer forcefully tells Seymour, the mild-mannered floral shop clerk, played by Peter Kremidas that the strange plant can earn big bucks if he gets out of rundown Skid Row.
Audrey sings of her longing for a better life with Seymour (Somewhere That's Green.)
Seymour, posing as a dental patient, pays a visit to Orin, Audrey's abusive boyfriend, intent on shooting him and feeding him to Audrey II.
Seymour is spared the ghastly deed of murdering Orin, however, when the nitrous-addicted dentist laughs himself to death on his own anesthetic gas.
Mushnik and Seymour discuss the plant's success and Mushnik, fearful that Seymour and his plant might leave him for a better opportunity elsewhere, adopts Seymour as his son and partner. (Mushnik and Son.)
Following the disappearance of Orin, Seymour builds up the courage to tell Audrey of his true feelings for her. Audrey responds with the touching song, Suddenly Seymour, and the two are united.
Unfortunately, Mushnik grows suspicious of Seymour's crime and threatens to turn him into the police if he does not leave the country. Of course the solution for Seymour is once again right in front of him, and he tricks Mushnik into the jaws of the ever-hungry Audrey II. As the plant and the body count grow so does Seymout's fame and fortune.
Hot shot talent agent, played by Beckett Aston (left), promises fame and fortune to Seymour, played by Peter Kremidas who has misgivings about getting rich due to his carnivorous plant.
Ultimately, however, Seymour's natural goodness begins to make him think about his lifestyle and what he must do to maintain it. At last, he decides to flee with Audrey to be married and plots to destroy Audrey II. Before Seymour can complete his plan, however, the plant mortally wounds Audrey. Dying, she requests that she be fed to the plant, so she can become a part of it and always be near Seymour. As the music swells, Seymour feeds her to Audrey II, which at last reveals its ultimate plans--nothing less than world domination. Seymour makes one last attempt to kill the plant but fails. In the end, he too is devoured.
The singers, joined now by the faces of the dead characters, warn that Audrey II and other alien plants have begun to devour the world one city at a time.
Finale.
Finale.
Finale.
Curtain call.
(Photo by Brianna Ontiveros)
