Little Shop of Horrors at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre

First look at Little Shop of Horrors at London's Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. Maria Aberg's production of the famed horror rock comedy musical has opened to rapturous reviews with a cast that includes Jemima Rooper (Death in Paradise, As If), Marc Antolin (London Road), Busted star Matt Willis, Forbes Masson and US drag queen Vicky Vox as the bloody thirsty plant Audrey II. Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's musical comedy is about a hapless flower shop assistant, Seymour, who discovers a mysterious new plant with killer potential. With his new found fortune and fame he just might be able to win the heart of kind, sweet, delicate Audrey. [ngg_images source="galleries" container_ids="559" display_type="photocrati-nextgen_basic_imagebrowser" ajax_pagination="1" template="default" order_by="sortorder" order_direction="ASC" returns="included" maximum_entity_count="500"]   Design is by Tom Scutt Jesus Christ Superstar (Open Air Theatre), The Deep Blue Sea (National Theatre) King Charles III (Almeida), with choreography by Lizzi Gee and musical supervision by Tom Deering. Book and lyrics by Howard Ashman (The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast) with music by Alan Menken (Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast). Buy tickets to Little Shop of Horrors Little Shop of Horrors is booking until 15 September 2018 at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre.

Rehearsal images have been released offering a first glimpse of Regent's Park Open Air Theatre's upcoming production of Little Shop of Horrors. Marc Antolin and Death in Paradise's Jemima Rooper play Seymour and Audrey in the classic rock horror musical with Forbes Masson in the role of East Side florist Mr Mushnik. Former Busted singer Matt Willis takes the role of sadistic dentist Orin with U.S drag queen Vicky Vox playing the plant, Audrey II. Little Shop of Horrors is based on the low-budget 1960s black and white film of the same name and is about a mildly-meek shop assistant who raises a flesh-eating plant, with the hope of getting 'the girl'. First premiering off-Broadway in 1982, it's written and composed by multi-award winning theatre greats Alan Menken and Howard Ashman. This production is directed by Maria Aberg with design by Tom Scutt, choreography by Lizzi Gee, musical supervision by Tom Deering, lighting by Howard Hudson and sound by Nick Lidster for Autograph. [ngg_images source="galleries" container_ids="553" display_type="photocrati-nextgen_basic_imagebrowser" ajax_pagination="1" template="default" order_by="sortorder" order_direction="ASC" returns="included" maximum_entity_count="500"]   Find tickets to Little Shop Of Horrors Little Shop Of Horrors runs from 3 August 2018 until 15 September 2018 at Regents Park Open Air Theatre, London.

Jemima Rooper and Marc Antolin will lead the cast of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's Little Shop of Horrors, which opens at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre in August. Rooper will play Audrey with Marc Antolin playing her husband Seymour. Jemima first came to the attention of audiences playing Nicki in the hit Channel 4 teenage series As If. She has continued to work in film, tv and stage with notable screen credits including Kinky Boots, noir crime thriller The Black Dahlia and tv series Hex and Lost In Austen. Jemima's stage roles include One Man, Two Guvnors, The Power of Yes, and Her Naked Skin all for the National, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Young Vic), Hand To God (West End), Blithe Spirit (West End and US tour), All My Sons (West End), Where Do We Live (Royal Court) and most recently Alan Ayckbourn’s trilogy The Norman Conquests at Chichester Festival Theatre. London Road actor Marc Antolin's many stage credits include Emma Rice's productions of Romantics Anonymous (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse) and Twelfth Night (Shakespeare’s Globe), Peter Pan (National Theatre), The Trial (Young Vic), Taken At Midnight (Theatre Royal Haymarket, Chichester Minerva), Amadeus (Chichester Festival Theatre), From Here To Eternity (Shaftesbury Theatre) and Matilda (RSC, West End). The cast will also feature Busted star Matt Willis playing sadistic dentist Orin, Forbes Masson (Big Fish) as Mr Mushnik, US drag queen Vicky Vox as the plant, Audrey II and Renée Lamb (Six), Seyi Omooba (Ragtime) and Christina Modestou (In the Heights) as Chiffon, Crystal and Ronnette. Completing the cast are: Joe Allen, Josh Baker, Billy Cullum, Julian Hoult, Rosalind James, Bobbie Little, Helen Siveter and Mary Lynn Tiep. Directed by Maria Aberg, the production will have choreography by Lizzi Gee, design by Tom Scutt, musical supervision by Tom Deering, lighting by Howard Hudson and sound design by Nick Lidster for Autograph. Casting is by Stuart Burt Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's musical theatre classic is about a flower shop assistant who discovers a mysterious new plant with killer potential. It features much loved songs including "Suddenly, Seymour", "Somewhere That's Green", and "Dentist!". Other productions in the 2018 season at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre include J.M Barrie's classic Peter Pan (17 May - 15 June) Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw (22 – 30 June); Shakespeare’s As You Like It (06 July – 28 July); Dinosaur World Live for ages 3+ (15 August – 9 September). Buy tickets to Little Shop of Horrors Little Shop Of Horrors runs from 3 August 2018 until 15 September 2018 at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre.