Little Shop of Horrors (Broadway Cast Recording)
Download links and information about Little Shop of Horrors (Broadway Cast Recording) by Alan Menken / Howard Ashman. This album was released in 1986 and it belongs to Theatre/Soundtrack genres. It contains 27 tracks with total duration of 01:18:12 minutes.
Artist: | Alan Menken / Howard Ashman |
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Release date: | 1986 |
Genre: | Theatre/Soundtrack |
Tracks: | 27 |
Duration: | 01:18:12 |
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Tracks
[Edit]No. | Title | Length |
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1. | Prologue / Little Shop of Horrors (featuring Alan Menken) | 3:22 |
2. | Skid Row (Downtown) (featuring Alan Menken) | 4:05 |
3. | Do-Doo (featuring Alan Menken) | 1:25 |
4. | Grow for Me (featuring Alan Menken) | 2:59 |
5. | WSKID (featuring Alan Menken) | 0:59 |
6. | Ya Never Know (featuring Alan Menken) | 3:10 |
7. | Somewhere That's Green (featuring Alan Menken) | 4:10 |
8. | Closed for Renovation (featuring Alan Menken) | 1:41 |
9. | Dentist! (featuring Alan Menken) | 2:31 |
10. | Mushnik & Son (featuring Alan Menken) | 3:47 |
11. | Feed Me (Git It!) (featuring Alan Menken) | 6:38 |
12. | Now (It's Just the Gas) (featuring Alan Menken) | 3:39 |
13. | Act I Finale (featuring Alan Menken) | 1:08 |
14. | Entr'acte (featuring Alan Menken) | 1:06 |
15. | Call Back in the Morning (featuring Alan Menken) | 2:04 |
16. | Suddenly Seymour (featuring Alan Menken) | 3:37 |
17. | Suppertime (featuring Alan Menken) | 2:29 |
18. | The Meek Shall Inherit (featuring Alan Menken) | 6:46 |
19. | Sominex / Suppertime II (featuring Alan Menken) | 2:03 |
20. | Somewhere That's Green (Reprise) (featuring Alan Menken) | 3:13 |
21. | Bigger Than Hula-Hoops (featuring Alan Menken) | 1:29 |
22. | Finale Ultimo (Don't Feed the Plants) (featuring Alan Menken) | 3:30 |
23. | A Little Dental Music (featuring Alan Menken) | 1:45 |
24. | The Worse He Treats Me (featuring Alan Menken) | 2:29 |
25. | We'll Have Tomorrow (featuring Alan Menken) | 3:27 |
26. | I Found a Hobby (featuring Alan Menken) | 2:07 |
27. | Bad (Film Version) (featuring Alan Menken) | 2:33 |
Details
[Edit]In 1978 Alan Menken and Howard Ashman created a new musical take on Roger Corman's 1960 film Little Shop Of Horrors, which became a Broadway hit. Both involve a man-eating, Venus flytrap-inspired plant named Audrey II, raised in a skid-row flower shop into a massive beast with excessive chloroplast (testosterone?) levels. Though the film was inventive and campy, Menken and Ashman's music music - a mix of doo-wop and lavish songs along the lines of Rocky Horror Picture Show — made the show's fun hilarious, its thrills outrageously gruesome. The soundtrack to Frank Oz's 1987 film adaptation carries on the musical's spirit: Steve Martin's rendition of "Dentist," about a demented psychopath who drills mouths (not just teeth) without novocaine, is achingly funny. "Downtown" is a full-powered choir of the slums; Rick Moranis works for an uptight flower shop manager ("He took me in, gave me shelter, a bed, crust of bread and a job, treats me like dirt and calls me a slob, which I am.") Martin and Moranis' sincere if limited singing is charming, and Ellen Greene returns as the original Audrey from the Broadway version; the way she belts out earth-shakingly high notes is bewildering, particularly on the lovely duet with Moranis, "Suddenly Seymour." The Four Tops' Levi Stubbs is a scene-stealer as Audrey II, particularly on the new track, the raunchy, boisterous finale "Mean Green Mother From Outer Space"; since film nominations must be new songs, it was added in hopes of an Academy Award (and did indeed receive a nomination.) When Disney added a tribute to Howard Ashman on the Beauty and the Beast credits after his death in 1992, it read: "To Ashman who gave a Mermaid her voice and a Beast his soul." He also gave a plant its appetite.