Little Shop of Horrors [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] - Howard Ashman | Songs, Reviews, Credits. All. Music Review. Peter Fawthrop. In 1. Alan Menken and Howard Ashman created a new musical take on Roger Corman's 1. Little Shop Of Horrors, which became a Broadway hit. Both involve a man- eating, Venus flytrap- inspired plant named Audrey II, raised in a skid- row flower shop into a massive beast with excessive chloroplast (testosterone?) levels. Little Shop of Horrors is a horror comedy. Mushnik takes advantage of Seymour's innocence by offering to adopt him and make him a full partner in the. A Saturday morning animated cartoon version, titled Little Shop.Though the film was inventive and campy, Menken and Ashman's music music - a mix of doo- wop and lavish songs along the lines of Rocky Horror Picture Show - - made the show's fun hilarious, its thrills outrageously gruesome. The soundtrack to Frank Oz's 1. Steve Martin's rendition of "Dentist," about a demented psychopath who drills mouths (not just teeth) without novocaine, is achingly funny. Downtown" is a full- powered choir of the slums; Rick Moranis works for an uptight flower shop manager ("He took me in, gave me shelter, a bed, crust of bread and a job, treats me like dirt and calls me a slob, which I am.") Martin and Moranis' sincere if limited singing is charming, and Ellen Greene returns as the original Audrey from the Broadway version; the way she belts out earth- shakingly high notes is bewildering, particularly on the lovely duet with Moranis, "Suddenly Seymour." The Four Tops' Levi Stubbs is a scene- stealer as Audrey II, particularly on the new track, the raunchy, boisterous finale "Mean Green Mother From Outer Space"; since film nominations must be new songs, it was added in hopes of an Academy Award (and did indeed receive a nomination.) When Disney added a tribute to Howard Ashman on the Beauty and the Beast credits after his death in 1. To Ashman who gave a Mermaid her voice and a Beast his soul." He also gave a plant its appetite. Little Shop of Horrors was filmed on the Albert R. Broccoli. played in the original film by Jack Nicholson under the name 'Wilbur Force,' and cut from the stage version. The full version of the song was included on.
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