Little Shop of Horrors

Act one
1960 is a difficult year for Seymour Krelbourn. Brought up by a man named Mr. Mushnik, Seymour is an orphan and an outcast. Living on urban Skid Row, he works at Mushnik’s Skid Row Florist (Prologue: Little Shop of Horrors) alongside a poor battered young woman a few years older named Audrey.

She enters the shop one morning with a black eye that her date has given her. After waiting from 9 til 5 for customers, all of Skid Row shares their feelings (Skid Row). At closing time, Mr. Mushnik decides to close the shop to save himself from the grief of Skid Row life. But Seymour comes up with a plan to save the store. He shows a strange and interesting plant he has collected which he has named Audrey II after his secret love for Audrey. When he puts this in the window, customers flock and he tells the story of how he found the Audrey II (Da-Doo), during a total eclipse of the sun.

After staying open a few extra hours for the amazing new business and showing customers away, he offers to takes his two employees, Seymour and Audrey, out to dinner. But at the last minute, the Audrey II suddenly wilts and Seymour is commanded to stay at the shop and nurse the plant back to health. He begs the plant to grow (Grow for Me), and accidentally feeds it blood after getting poked with rose thorns. When he realizes that the blood is what the plant wants, he decides that he must feed it, but only a little, because if he is successful, perhaps Audrey will like him.

Seymour’s famous now and has his first radio interview. When Mr. Mushnik and three street urchins, Ronnette, Chiffon, and Crystal, listen to the interview, they have a grand realization (Ya Never Know). Audrey misses the interview because her boyfriend had her handcuffed. And she really loves Seymour but feels that she is unworthy of him because of her past.

She dreams of Seymour and her having a family one day someplace nice (Somewhere that’s Green). Mushnik’s Skid Row Florist finally has money to clean up their act (Closed for Renovation) and the Audrey II is the size of a German shepherd. Audrey and Seymour are left alone and come close to revealing their true feelings for each other, but her date is almost there. So when Orin Scrivello finally arrives, he meets Ronnette, Chiffon, and Crystal. He reveals that he is a sadistic dentist (Dentist). When Audrey has gone off on Orin’s motorcycle, Seymour thinks about some advice that the high Orin gave him. He is told to ditch Mr. Mushnik and to go to the big time with amazing trapped plant. Mr. Mushnik overhears this and makes a plan to adopt Seymour and therefor own the plant.

The plan is to kill Orin, feed the plant, and keep Audrey for himself. Orin makes a special emergency midnight appointment for Seymour who bears a revolver. But Orin plans to operate on Seymour and enjoy it with some nitrous-oxide for himself, not for Seymour.