Jake Gyllenhaal Offers Ellen Greene "Sweet Understanding" in Little Shop of Horrors, Starting Tonight | Playbill

News Jake Gyllenhaal Offers Ellen Greene "Sweet Understanding" in Little Shop of Horrors, Starting Tonight The New York City Center Encores! Off-Center production of the Alan Menken-Howard Ashman musical Little Shop of Horrors, featuring stage and screen stars Ellen Greene and Jake Gyllenhaal, begins performances July 1 at the famed Manhattan venue.

Greene, who created the role of the lovably ditzy Audrey both on stage and screen, reprises that part opposite Academy Award nominee Gyllenhaal, who was seen on Broadway this past season opposite Ruth Wilson in Constellations, as down-on-his-luck plant-shop worker Seymour. The cast also features Taran Killam ("Saturday Night Live") as Orin, Eddie Cooper as the Voice of Audrey II and Joe Grifasi as Mushnik. The Urchins are portrayed by Caroline, or Change's Tracy Nicole Chapman (Chiffon), Marva Hicks (Crystal) and Ramona Keller (Ronnette).

Read Diva Talk: Ellen Greene On Creating the Role of Audrey and Returning to Little Shop of Horrors.

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Jake Gyllenhaal

Dick Scanlan directs with choreography by Patricia Wilcox and musical direction by Chris Fenwick.

Little Shop of Horrors, according to City Center, is a "sci-fi musical about Seymour Krelborn (Jake Gyllenhaal), a hapless florist shop worker who pursues a doomed romance with his ditzy, lovable co-worker Audrey (Ellen Greene) by acquiring an R&B-singing plant (Eddie Cooper) that feeds on human blood."

Performances take place July 1 and 2 at 7:30 PM with a 2 PM matinee July 2. Explore Rare Photos, Letters and Memories in Ellen Greene's Little Shop of Horrors Scrapbook.

Little Shop of Horrors is based on the 1960 cult movie of the same name. The musical version debuted Off-Broadway at WPA Theatre in 1982 starring Lee Wilkoff and Ellen Greene in a role that would become her signature. A Broadway production was mounted in 2003 co-starring Hunter Foster and Kerry Butler.

Flip Through the 1982 Original Little Shop of Horrors Playbills.

Tickets begin at $25. Phone (212) 581-1212 or visit NYCityCenter.org.

Take a Look at the Letters and Memories in Ellen Greene’s Little Shop of Horrors Scrapbook

 
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