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Photos from Little Shop of Horrors on August 21st, 2022!
Westside Theatre, NYC.
I got to see Christian Borle and Rob McClure from the front row (seat A107)!!! I was internally screaming and externally smiling at the stage the whole time. This was such a dream come true. I still can’t believe it happened.
The theatre was tiny (seats 270 people), so being in the front row was extra intimate. I was so close I could easily touch the stage, which wasn’t very elevated. I couldn’t have asked for a better show in which to see my favorite actors.
I snapped a quick photo during curtain call—I wasn’t brave enough to record the whole thing because I was very visible in the front row. But at least I got Christian!! Here he is on the left!!
Spoilers for the front row: Audrey II came right up to our legs during the finale! Here’s my view of Audrey II, up from my lap. I could literally touch it.
The vines landed on our legs, touching us! here’s some blurry evidence:
The cast list for my show:
The beautiful curtain, before vs after the show:
A view of stage right, before the show started:
When Seymour tries to kill the plant at the end, he uses a box of rat poison, some of which spill onto the stage. The “rat poison” are small, bouncy yellow balls, and some landed onto the floor in front of me. I got to keep them!
And!! Rob McClure was so nice; he responded to my Instagram story right after the show was over. I love him so much. :’)
This show is so special to me. This might actually have been the best day of my life. This production in particular has been amazing because I got to see it for the first time in 2020, when Jonathan Groff was Seymour and Christian Borle was Orin & Others. I literally got to see all my favorite Broadway actors through this show!
That’s all for this post! Later I’m going to make a separate post of my notes from the show, including interesting details I remember.
#i was so close to christian borle ahhhhh#rob mcclure is so fucking nice i can't believe it#little shop nyc#little shop of horrors#lsoh#personal#personal blog#Christian Borle#Rob McClure#Audrey II#Audrey two#everyone in the cast was awesome#off Broadway#Broadway#musical theatre#musicals#memories#Westside theatre#nyc#long post
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not to be weird but hi for the love of god hello
#tess talks#i would defend her with my life. and i am so sad im probably never going to see her in this role but im reading reviews rn instead of doing#my finals and i uhhmmmmmm… grabby hands. i just KNOW if i was at the westside theatre i would not be able to take my eyes off her. i just#KNOW it. like from the videos ive watched and even the tinydesk im just obsessed w this harder yet somehow even more fragile audrey. sorry#the way her ankle is bent in the first pic scares me though 😨#tammy blanchard#little shop of horrors#audrey#photos
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Corbin Bleu as Seymour, and Constance Wu as Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors at the Westside Theatre
(Photos by Evan Zimmerman)
#little shop of horrors#corbin bleu#constance wu#ive been waiting for these pictures for YEARS#(like a few months)#bryce pinkham#brad Oscar#aaron arnell harrington#d'kaylah unique whitley#tiffany renee thompson#khadija sankoh#camryn hampton#najah hetsberger#michael iannucchi#weston chandler long#jeff sears#teddy yudain#zakiya baptiste#jonothon lyons#noel macneal#johnny newcomb#kevin pariseau#cataloging theatre
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[HQ] Darren Criss as Seymour, Evan Rachel Wood as Audrey and Bryce Pinkham as Orin in the Westside Theatre's off-Broadway production of 'Little Shop of Horrors'. (Photos by Emilio Madrid) | Source
#darren criss#evan rachel wood#bryce pinkham#little shop of horrors#little shop of horrors bway#photos#press#feb 2024
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Darren Criss | Little Shop of Horrors | Backstage at Westside Theatre, NYC | March 11, 2024 | 📸 by Kevin V. Doan
#those eyes can kill#and I'm gladly dead 💀#darren criss#little shop of horrors#lsoh#lsoh bts#!lsohedits#pretty eyes#kevin v doan#dailymenedit#mensource#dailymalecelebs#mancandykings#popculturesource#flawlessgentlemen#dailymalestarsedit#musical theatre#dilfsource#please do not repost
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masonalexanderpark: Two of my oldest friends in the world are starring in this show for another week and I am so happy I decided to hop across the pond for a day to witness their brilliance along side my mother… our love of musical theatre had a lot to do with discovering Little Shop, so it was amazing to watch Darren and Evan blow the lid off the Westside Theatre. 💕
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Addio D'Angelo's.
28th January 2024
[ parental death tw ]
A summary: Via's parents pass a week apart in California. She inherits the LA restaurant alongside her inheritance. She sells D'Angelo's to a property developer on the Hollywood strip. After some time spent with realtors in New York, and some business planning, she purchases Westside Theatre.
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It's like reading a novel; it feels immersive, but a part of one's mind always knows that the words inciting hours of hallucinations, are fictitious. Entire lives are compiled into a few words at the top of taxation forms, and those with the pen in their hand are vampires exsanguinating the last droplets of memory from a person passed.
Via's glad to be the one with teeth here.
Dotted lines, forgotten legacies and shattered dreams are all welcomed to live and die in this room too.
There's no trick though, and the words are real. She translates it simply as: Sara and Paolo are gone. Via's signing her name, almost without consideration for the Italian's rolling in their graves. If they knew her plans; to sever her ties to LA, and allow her parents life's work be offered on a platter to the highest offer.
She has fond memories of youth in D'Angelo's. Running between tables and being doted on by regulars, and family friends. Eating pasta she did not appreciate then, but would if she cooked more than once a month. But Via has a (perhaps) broken part of her that lacks sentiment, and nostalgia comes and goes. Via's not thought about amatriciana, vitello tonnato, or iconic carbonara's that D'Angelo's become renown for in years. Decades, even.
She isn't thinking about it when she slides papers back, and speaks frankly with suits, and those telling her she's welcome to take some time before she finalises with state governments. Via has just enough respect for the situation to not laugh in their faces. The pen she is using, she takes. Pocketing it in one swift motion.
When she thanks them behind a painted smile (she tells herself, it's solemn) she's not performing for them, so it's nothing more than a simper.
As she leaves, Via's already making calls.
Somehow, it's relief to step out into the city air, because she's about to reopen doors; widen the horizons and forge the last act in her own legacy.
Giovanni, she knows, has entitlement to partial inheritance, but he's missing; unaccounted for, apparently. No address to pin him down, and if Via were kinder and less cynical she might not believe he too had long passed, and were in a gutter somewhere, to be forgotten. They'd figure it out, someday.
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Italian's death day seems worlds away when Via has seen more paperwork, and contracts than she ever had when she were travelling the states, working in various theatres, and show businesses. A new world that now, she's settling into. D'Angelo's belonged to a shmuck wanting to gentrify the strip. Have at it, she'd said when the same stolen pen signed, and scribbled it away.
Negotiating with the bank for Westside, had required something a bit more than Via possessed. A business mind was one thing, but writing up business strategies, and presenting it had taken more than just herself. It had taken time, and conversations, more contracts. She'd had enough contacts to make it work, and enough of a bank balance to make it work, when it almost hadn't. Roping in more than enough benefactors, and performers to kickstart, and reinvent D'Angelo's old legacy, and solidify her own (maybe no longer dreaming of the walk of fame) in New York.
Westside Theatre, is all her.
And Via knows the grand re-opening, will be magical.
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Our Audrey in Little Shop at the Westside Theatre was so good, I had to draw her! Marker on sketch paper.
#little shop of horrors#little shop nyc#joy woods#art#micron#prismacolor#tombow#portrait#horror#screenshot redraw#my art#musical theater
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NYCDA Nationals ‘23 Senior Solo Results
Placements 21-30 Under “Keep Reading”
1. Sophia Cobo - Stars Dance (Score above 298!)
2. Skai Llorente - Encore PAC (Score above 297)
3. Addison Leitch - Dmitri Kulev (Score above 297)
4. Jonathan Paula - Canadian Dance Unit (Score above 297)
5. Sophia Springer-Iannantuoni - Inspire School of Dance (Score above 297)
6. Ayla Rodriguez - Artistic Fusion (Score above 297)
7. Reagan Stafford - Next Step Dance (Score above 297)
8. Avery Hall - Danceology
9. Ella Querrey - Inspire School of Dance
10. Suvannah Hunter - Elite Dance Academy NJ
11. Aiden Cook - KJ Dance
12. Eden Galloway - WNC Dance Academy
13. Antonia Gonzalez - Stars Dance
14. Drew Rosen - Danceology
15. Abigail Weber - The Dallas Conservatory
16. Kaiden Currie - Nancy Chippendale’s
17. Alessandra Gonzalez - Collective Dance Artistry
18. Tegan Chou - Westside Dance
19. Marcello Perez - Xplosive Dance Academy
20. Samiyah Norris - Estreet Dance
21. Sayler Nguyen - Starstruck PAC
22. Isabelle Harris - Utah Dance Collective
23. Madison Morita - Collective Dance Artistry
24. Keira Fleming - Kanyok Arts
25. Jackson Koressel - Sweatshop
26. Emma McLaughlin - KJ Dance
27. Lela Dye - Dye’n 2 Dance
28. Hayley Wilson - Renner Dance Company
29. Tucker Nance - Performance Edge 2
30. Marissa Lazovick - Broadway Dance Theatre
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izzy does musical theatre so i don’t see why the twins couldn’t do jazz IF THEY WANTED. yes, you all want them to do jazz, but maybe they’re going to westside because they want to do other things! think about the girls and what’s gonna make them happy, not you. (yes ik they still love jazz)
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LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS is the man-eating, award-winning BEST MUSICAL REVIVAL, now in its fourth succulent year at the Westside Theatre! This smash-hit production stars Jeremy Jordan (Waitress, Newsies), who re-joins the company as Seymour for eight weeks only through Sept. 17.
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Joy Woods as Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors at Westside Theatre (2022)
#little shop of horrors#lsoh#audrey lsoh#joy woods#she is so mind meltingly beautiful#black theatre#cataloging theatre
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Video: Darren Criss is Suddenly Back on Stage in LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
"I'm Seymour #9! And I know every single Seymour before me... at least on this production. They are friends of mine, so I was starting to feel left out," joked Darren Criss joked with BroadwyWorld's Richard Ridge last week.
Darren just joined the company of Little Shop of Horrors in his off-Broadway debut at The Westside Theatre. He stars alongside Evan Rachel Wood as Audrey.
He's no stranger to going into shows as a replacement, but he's quick to admit that he has a strategy. "I've also gone into How to Succeed..., Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and this. All of them are beloved shows with fanbases... you don't have to figure out if it works or not," he explained. "We're good! I've hedged my bets in terms of what I've been involved in, because I'm doing stuff that I (and audiences) already love."
Watch below as he chats more about playing one of musical theatre's most beloved characters, and why he's so happy to be back on stage in a cult-favorite musical.
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#darren criss#broadway world#richard ridge#little shop of horrors#little shop of horrors bway#press#video#feb 2024
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Darren Criss and Vivienne "VivziePop" Medrano | Little Shop of Horrors, Westside Theatre NY | March 28, 2024 | 📸 via vivziebizzie
#excuse me while i die 🫡💀#bring him back for s2 😭#we need another horny!st peter song#darren criss#vivziepop#vivienne medrano#little shop of horrors#lsoh#lsoh bts#!lsohedits#hazbin hotel#hazbin hotel st peter#hazbin hotel saint peter#saint peter hazbin hotel#st peter hazbin hotel#darren meeting vivziepop#(in person lol)#also joey in the background 👀#popculturesource#musical theatre#musical theater kid#please do not repost
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Help support BCEFA in honor of Darren's Little Shop debut!
New mini goal!!
Darren begins performances as Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors in two days! Let’s raise $270 for BCEFA by the time he takes the stage ($1 for every seat at the Westside Theatre)!
Donate HERE to help us reach our total goal in celebration of Darren's return to the stage & his 37th birthday!
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Patrick Gibson went to support Maude Apatow in "Little Shop of Horrors" at The Westside Theatre, New York City on 15 February 2023
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