Little Shop of Horrors Regents Park

Inspired casting of Vicky Vox, so authentic yet so completely subversive.

The sound was amazing! Those three girls and Vicky rocked.

I didn’t like the leads. Personally I think those characters need to be rooted in reality but these were cartoon characters.

I loved the set and the skyscrapers in trolleys. I felt the plant could have gotten bigger and maintained a puppet face character sharing the space with Vicky.

I loved how grey it was but I think Audrey should have been dressed brighter.

I think it’s impossible for any actor to take on the role of the dentist after Steve Martin but for the most part he was ok. I just think those moments of violence need to be a jolt for the audience.

All in all, I loved it and would return easily.

Like Ellen Greene’s (almost) vein popping performance of Suddenly Seymour in the film?

I bet Sherrers knocked it out of the park...

OMG LOVED IT! Esp the inspired choreography and wonderful musical direction. Matt Willis and Forbes Masson were awful, but the production is so fresh and invigorating and the show as a whole, while not without its problems, is such a delight. I’d gladly put my money behind a West End transfer.

Why does everything need to transfer?

Audrey is the only performance of Sheridans I've really liked and thought really suited her. She was spot on

Well, I liked it. I was terribly nervous going in, as this is a musical I hold very dear. The adventurous departures from the usual that I had heard about, plus the mixed reviews from my esteemed fellow forum members worried me, and I wasn’t at all sure about the personification of the plant.
But it was a joyful, colourful, fun interpretation - and I got totally on board with Vicky Vox’s Audrey 2. An amazing powerhouse vocalist, the naughtiness she brought to the role far exceeded anything I have seen a puppet plant achieve. Although I was glad to see a puppet plant in the early stages. The combination worked.
Seymour was good, the Urchins were amazing, Matt Willis as the Dentist etc was better than expected. Mushnik was just ok, as was Audrey. The role seemed very played down to me, which didn’t seem to fit the overall concept. And Jemima’s vocals were only just good enough - Somewhere That’s Green was sweet, but she was helped out considerably by the trio in the belt parts of Suddenly Seymour.
The set was a bit weird. I wasn’t sure the skyscrapers were necessary, but they did enable increasingly strange and interesting embellishments to be brought on, and the overall effect by the end was a visual treat.
Oh, the end! No spoilers, you have to be there, but one of the best finales ever.
As other posts have shown, this isn’t for everyone but I had a great time, left feeling very happy and uplifted and felt that the show represented the wonderful work of Ashman & Menken well, while adding new touches.

I went this afternoon. I going to just get straight to the point and that is that I think the whole thing would be a lot better at night and with full lighting. I just thought something was missing in the day. You realise how important lighting and stage effects are when you see something at an open air theatre in the day, especially when it comes to framing where your focus should be.

I preferred the recent tour version honestly but again I don't know if that's just because I don't feel like I saw a full production here and an other negative about it is that seeing everyone is terribly distracting and there was an abnormal amount of people coming on and out all the time.

I enjoyed it but sure it's twice as good in the evenings.

Sorry I disagree, I've seen plenty of matinees at the open air and they have been excellent, never felt like something is missing. If the production is good it shouldn't matter what time of day you're seeing it and the production team should allow for that

I saw JCS at a matinee and evening and the difference the lighting effects and the fact it was dark so you didn’t see the other audience members made was quite significant. Much preferred the evening performance despite that one being interrupted by rain!