NewsEllen Greene and Jake Gyllenhaal Dazzle in Little Shop of Horrors! See Their Bows and Go Inside the Cast Party!The New York City Center Encores! Off-Center production of the Alan Menken-Howard Ashman musical Little Shop of Horrors, featuring stage and screen stars Ellen Greene and Jake Gyllenhaal, began performances July 1 at the famed Manhattan venue.
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Matthew Blank
July 02, 2015
Greene, who created the role of the lovably ditzy Audrey both on stage and screen, reprises that part opposite Academy Award nominee Gyllenhaal, who was seen on Broadway this past season opposite Ruth Wilson in Constellations, as down-on-his-luck plant-shop worker Seymour. The cast also features Taran Killam ("Saturday Night Live") as Orin, Eddie Cooper as the Voice of Audrey II and Joe Grifasi as Mushnik. The Urchins are portrayed by Caroline, or Change's Tracy Nicole Chapman (Chiffon), Marva Hicks (Crystal) and Ramona Keller (Ronnette).
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Ellen Greene and Jake Gyllenhaal Dazzle in Little Shop of Horrors! See the First Bow and Cast Party
Ellen Greene and Jake Gyllenhaal Dazzle in Little Shop of Horrors! See the First Bow and Cast Party
The New York City Center Encores! Off-Center production of the Alan Menken-Howard Ashman musical Little Shop of Horrors, featuring stage and screen stars Ellen Greene and Jake Gyllenhaal, began performances July 1 at the famed Manhattan venue.
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Eddie Cooper, Jake Gyllenhaal and Joe Grifasi
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Eddie Cooper, Jake Gyllenhaal and Joe Grifasi
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Taran Killam, Ellen Greene, Eddie Cooper, Jake Gyllenhaal, Joe Grifasi, Marva Hicks, Tracy Nicole Chapman and Ramona Keller
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Taran Killam, Ellen Greene and Eddie Cooper
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Eddie Cooper, Ellen Greene and Jake Gyllenhaal
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Ellen Greene and Jake Gyllenhaal
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Taran Killam, Ellen Greene, Eddie Cooper, Jake Gyllenhaal, Joe Grifasi, Marva Hicks, Tracy Nicole Chapman and Ramona Keller
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Ellen Greene and Jake Gyllenhaal
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Eddie Cooper, Taran Killam, Ellen Greene, Jake Gyllenhaal, Joe Grifasi, Marva Hicks, Tracy Nicole Chapman and Ramona Keller
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Eddie Cooper and Taran Killam
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Anwar Kareem, Eddie Cooper, Taran Killam, Ellen Greene, Jake Gyllenhaal, Joe Grifasi, Marva Hicks, Tracy Nicole Chapman and Ramona Keller
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Anwar Kareem, Eddie Cooper, Taran Killam, Ellen Greene, Jake Gyllenhaal, Joe Grifasi, Marva Hicks, Tracy Nicole Chapman and Ramona Keller
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Ellen Greene and Jake Gyllenhaal
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Ellen Greene and Jake Gyllenhaal
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Ellen Greene and Jake Gyllenhaal
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Ellen Greene
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Dick Scanlan
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Lee Wilkof
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Anwar Kareem
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Alan Menken and Janis Roswick-Menken
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Marva Hicks, Tracy Nicole Chapman, Alan Menken, Ramona Keller and Joe Grifasi
Little Shop of Horrors, according to City Center, is a "sci-fi musical about Seymour Krelborn (Jake Gyllenhaal), a hapless florist shop worker who pursues a doomed romance with his ditzy, lovable co-worker Audrey (Ellen Greene) by acquiring an R&B-singing plant (Eddie Cooper) that feeds on human blood." Performances take place July 1 and 2 at 7:30 PM with a 2 PM matinee July 2.
Little Shop of Horrors is based on the 1960 cult movie of the same name. The musical version debuted Off-Broadway at WPA Theatre in 1982 starring Lee Wilkoff and Ellen Greene in a role that would become her signature. A Broadway production was mounted in 2003 co-starring Hunter Foster and Kerry Butler.
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