Cult Musical Little Shop of Horrors Will Open Its Doors for Additional Night at Encores! Off Center

Encores! Off-Center is to remain “Somewhere That’s Green” a little longer! Little Shop of Horrors, which as previously announced will star the sci-fi musical’s original headliner Ellen Greene, is set to play an additional date at City Center this summer. Directed by Dick Scanlan and choreographed by Patricia Wilcox, the cult fave will now play on both July 1 and July 2.

Little Shop of Horrors has a book and lyrics by Howard Ashman and music by Alan Menken. The tuner follows a hapless florist shop worker who acquires an R&B-singing plant that feeds on human blood. An R&B girl’s trio, The Urchins, provides commentary on the action and will feature Tracy Nicole Chapman, Marva Hicks and Ramona Keller.

Little Shop is based on Roger Corman’s 1960 black comedy film by the same name and premiered off-off-Broadway in 1982 before moving off-Broadway to the Orpheum Theatre where it played 2,209 performances. It was revived on Broadway in 2003, playing 372 performances at the Virginia Theatre.