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performance!
Overture
(Voice Over)On the 21st day of
September, in an early decade not too long before
our own...
The human race encountered a deadly threat
to its very existence...
And this terrifying enemy surfaced – as such enemies
often do – in the most unlikely of places.
Little shop, little shop of horrors
Little shop, little shop of terror …call a cop …
No, oh, oh, n’no!
Little shop, little shop of horrors
Bop sh’bop, little shop of terror …watch em drop …
No, oh, oh, n’no!
Shing-a-ling, what a creepy thing to be
happenin’
Lookout!
Shang-a-lang, feel the sturm and drang in the air!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
Sha la laStop right where you areDon’cha move a thing!
You’d better tell your Mama somethin’s gonna
get her - Everybody better beware!
(Music)
Oh, here it comes baby, tell the bums baby
Oh, oh n’no!
Oh! Hit the dirt, baby!Red alert, baby!
Oh, oh, n’no!
Alley oop Haul it off the stoop.
Child, I’m warnin’ you…
Lookout!
Runaway, child, you gonna pay if you fail
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
Look aroun’ something’s coming down
the street for you
You betcha, ya bet your butt ya betcha,
somethin’s come to get’cha.
Better watch your back and tail.
Come-a, come-a, come-a
Little shop, little shop of horrors. Bop sh’bop
you’ll never stop the terror...
Little shop, little shop of horrors.
No! Oh, oh, n’no!
(Tic toc)
CRASH!(off stage)
What did you break now, Krelborn?
(Seymour offstage)Nothing, Mr.
Mushnik.
(Mumbles in Yiddish)
–So, she finally decides to come to work?
–Good morning, Mr. Mushnik.
What morning? It’s two o’clock in the
afternoon.
Not that we had a customer. Who has
customers at a flower shop on Skid Row?
I’m sorry.
(CRASH offstage)
– Seymour, what is going on back there?
– (Offstage) Very little, Mr. Mushnik.
Audrey, you’d better go back there and see … Audrey, where’d you get that shiner?
– Shiner…?
– Audrey, that greasy boyfriend of yours – he’s been beating up on you again?
Look, I know it’s none of my business, but
I’m beginning to think he’s maybe not such a
nice boy.
You don’t meet nice boys when you live on
Skid Row, Mr. Mushnik.
I got these re-potted for you, Mr…
Seymour! Look what you’ve done to the
inventory.
Don’t yell at Seymour, Mr. Mushnik.
Hi, Audrey – You look radiant today. Is that
new eye makeup?
I’ll clean it up before any of the customers
get here.
Well, that ought to give you plenty of
time.
Look, God, what an existence I got! Misfit employees, bums on
the sidewalk…
… business is lousy. My life a living hell.
You! Urchins! Off the stoop! It ain’t bad
enough I got winos, I need 3 worthless
ragamuffins too?
– We ain’t bothering nobody, are we Crystal?
– No, we’re not, Ronette.
– You ought to be in school.
– We’re on the split shift.
– Right. We went to the 5th grade, then we split.
– So how do you intend to better yourselves?
Better ourselves? Mister, when you from
Skid Row, ain’t no such thing.
Alarm goes off at seven and you start uptown
you put in your 8 hours for the powers that have
always been
(sing it child)
Till it’s five p.m.
Then you go…
Downtown, where the folks are broke. You go downtown, where your
life’s a joke
You go downtown, when you buy your token, you go…
Home to Skid Row
Yes, you go ...
Downtown
Where the cabs don’t stop
Downtown
Where the food is slop
Downtown
Where the hopheads flop in the snow - Down on
Skid Row
Uptown you cater to a million jerks. Uptown you’re messengers and
mailroom clerks
Eatin’ your lunches at the hot-dog carts. The
bosses take your money and they break your
hearts.
Uptown you cater to a million whores. You disinfect terrazzo on their bathroom floors
Your morning’s tribulation, afternoon’s a curse, and 5 o’clock is
even worse…
That’s when you go…
Downtown
Where the guys are drips
Downtown
Where they rip your slips
Downtown
Where relationships are a no-go
Down on Skid Row
Poor! All my life I’ve always been poor. I keep asking God what I’m for, and he tells me
“Gee, I’m not sure, sweep that floor kid.”
Oh! I started life as an orphan, a child of
the street, here on Skid Row
He took me in, gave me shelter, a bed, crust of bread and a job…
Treats me like dirt, calls me a slob, which
I am, so I live...
Downtown
That’s your home address, ya live...
Downtown
When your life’s a mess, ya live...
Downtown
Where depression’s just status quo
Down on Skid Row
Someone show me a way to get outa here. Cause I constantly
pray I’ll get outa here
Please won’t somebody say I’ll get outa here. Someone gimme my shot or I’ll
rot here!
SEYMORE: Show me how and I will. I’ll get outa here.
ALL:
Downtown, there’s no rules for us.
SEYMORE: I’ll
start climbin’ uphill and get outa here.
ALL:
Downtown, cause it’s dangerous.
SEYMORE:
Someone tell me I could still get outa here.
ALL:
Downtown, where the rainbow’s jus a no-show
SEYMORE:
Someone tell Lady Luck that I’m stuck here!
ALL:
When you live …
SEYMORE & AUDREY:
Gee, it sure would be swell to get outa here
ALL:
Downtown, where the sun don’t shine
SEYMORE & AUDREY:
Bid the gutter farewell and get outa here
ALL:
Downtown, past the bottom line
SEYMORE & AUDREY:
I’d move heaven and hell to get outa Skid
ALL:
Downtown, go ask any wino, he’ll know
SEYMORE & AUDREY:
I’d do, I’dunno what, to get outa Skid
ALL:
Downtown!
SEYMORE & AUDREY:
But a hell of a lot to get outa Skid
ALL:
Downtown!
SEYMORE & AUDREY:
People tell me there’s not a way outa Skid Row, but
believe me, I gotta get outa…
Skid Row!
Look at that, 6 o’clock and we
didn’t sell so much as a fern. I guess
this is it.
Don’t bother coming in tomorrow.
– You don’t mean.
– You can’t mean.
What, don’t I mean? I mean I’m closed,
forget it, kaput! I’m closing this god-and-
customer forsaken place.
Mr. Mushnik, forgive me, but has it occurred to you that maybe the