Talk:Little Shop of Horrors (musical)
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[edit] plot section added
This article weirdly didn't include info on the plot. I have added, and cleaned up the messy paragraph about the differences in the orig film and musical.
Perhaps someone could add a section talking about the scenery, props, etc? The production design is important, and thus far is addressed very little in the article. Davey1107 (talk) 07:51, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Musical based on film?
I'm surprised that Little Shop of Horrors has been placed in this category since strictly speaking, the film is based on the musical, not the other way round. -- Annie D 02:12, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
- My mistake. -- Annie D 01:05, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
- It's a Musical film based on a Musical which was based on a film. JP Godfrey (Talk to me) 10:17, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] performance
on thursday 8th of febuary 2007 the school blatchington mill performed the musical, can someone put this in for me 86.112.218.207 16:22, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
- That won't be notable enough to be included in the article, sorry :( Amo 00:16, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
oh...ok86.112.234.98 11:36, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Audrey II puppet Plant rental links
I was wondering if it would be appropriate to include information about the popularity of the show with ameture theatres, as well as including some links to places that had info about building, renting and buying the plant puppets? Yes, this would include a link to an organization I would be affiliated with, but I would make sure to also include other sources. I know that among the people that perform this show, the plant puppet is one of the biggest issues, and it would probably help a lot of people to include this information. I'd also be willing to start a separate article about the plant itself, both in the movies and in the stage productions, if that would be more acceptable.
Emainiac 00:10, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
- There is already information about the play's popularity with community theatres, read the fourth paragraph. Feel free to expand on that if you wish. I don't think the external links you mention are necessary because I just now very easily found rental resources with a simple Google search. Remember that Wikipedia is not a repository of links. Feel free to start a new article for Audrey II if you have enough attributable material for it. It might be preferable to start a section on character summaries on this page rather than on independent pages until that section gets long enough to be split off or apart. —Elipongo (Talk|contribs) 01:35, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] the phrase "commercial theatre district"
The reasoning behind my use of that phrase is that is makes it clear why the production would move to a different theatre so close (not necessarily obvious to the man on the street). For those not especially knowledgable about British theatre, "West End" is not a particularly informative term ('West End of what? What's so good about Westness etc?'), although of course, i am aware that they need only click on the wikilink to learn preceisely what it means. In my defence, both the wikipedia articles west end theatre and list of london venues describe the West End as hosting "commercial theatre". Amo 22:02, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
- West End is a very reasonable term, you can qualify it as West End of London, if you like; however, I'd say West End theatre is as widely known and used as Broadway. The West End is perhaps not as commercial as Broadway, being better described as commercial receiving houses, as they often host London productions and transfers from the non-commercial sector (particularly the RSC, as they gave up their London home, and have now gone so far as to demolish their 'home' theatre!).
- You seem to argue that the term Broadway is more informative, I lived and worked just off Broadway for years. OK the Beacon was near my house, but the Wall Street end doesn't have any theatres ... and many of the theatres are just off Bdwy, anyway ... so, maybe we should be changing the Broadway refs to Manhattan's Mid-Town theater district?
- The production you talked about moved from one commercial 190 seat theatre to another that seats about 1000. They just tried it out in a smaller theatre. That's normal too, so how come the qualifier commercial is meaningful?
- Anyway, you say tomato and I say tomato, so let's all just leave it at that. Kbthompson 23:04, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
I agree on the Tomato factor :). Specifically i just don't think people realise what off-West End/ Broadway/ Wherever or fringe stuff means ie I don't agree that "West End theatre is as widely known and used as Broadway" is the deciding factor. But i don't want to change the article any more. If anything, i might mooch over to West End Theatre and try and sharpen it up a bit. But btw (I'm not taking the mick here i'm just didn't grow up with the theatre) is the Menier really considered a "commercial 190 seat theatre"? Amo 23:34, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
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- It's not been open long, so the jury's still out, but it's not supported - therefore, it is commercial, just small - more like a pub-theatre, 'cept it's not in a pub. I agree, it's jargon, but jargon that's in common use, with a specific meaning that isn't captured by easy explanatory phrases. It reads better (in both cases), and the thespically deficient can easily look it up, so I don't think there's a real problem. Wiki's a powerful encyclopaedia, in that explanation of jargon is just a click away.
- I didn't grow up in the theatre, they let me go home at nights. 8^) Take care, and I look forward to the opportunity for more gentlemanly disagreements in the future. Kbthompson 08:31, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] "Masochistic" dentist
Unless the version I saw was different, the dentist character Orin wasn't masochistic (deriving pleasure from experiencing pain) but rather was sadistic (deriving pleasure from causing pain to others). I am changing it. CreedogV 09:02, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Synopsis
I think this article would benefit from a synopsis of the story, which is something that most musical articles seem to have. I've listened to the soundtrack and seen the musical film, so I could work with it a bit, but I've never actually seen the stage production, so another editor that's more familiar with this show would probably be more qualified than me to write such a section. —Mears man (talk) 04:59, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
- The stage production has a darker ending, in which Audrey II eats everyone, and then plant streamers actually fell down from the ceiling, as if the whole audience was being eaten. Creepy/Funny! I'm sure the synopsis is described on various websites. Happy editing! -- Ssilvers (talk) 21:41, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Article assessment
I promoted the article to B-class, even though it needs more referencing. Good job improving the article so far. Best regards, -- Ssilvers (talk) 20:18, 4 March 2008 (UTC)