{"id":244568,"date":"2026-05-26T23:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T23:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/244568\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T23:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T23:37:07","slug":"little-shop-of-horrors-will-pause-week-of-performances-for-theatre-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/244568\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Shop of Horrors Will Pause Week of Performances For Theatre Repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Little Shop of Horrors<\/a>\u00a0will be pausing performances June 9 through June 12 for theatre repairs\u2014but don’t worry,\u00a0Audrey\u00a0II didn’t swallow the building whole.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The show, which has been running Off-Broadway\u00a0at the Westside Theatre for nearly seven years now, will be closed to make\u00a0necessary repairs to the building’s HVAC system. Performances are set to resume June 13.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Off-Broadway revival of the beloved Howard Ashman-Alan Menken musical\u00a0began previews September 17, 2019, prior to an official opening October 17; the production resumed its run September 21, 2021, after temporarily closing in March 2020 due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n

The cast currently stars\u00a0Tony winner Nikki M. James<\/a> (Suffs, The Book of Mormon) as Audrey and stage and screen favorite Jordan Fisher<\/a> (Moulin Rouge, Hadestown) as Seymour. Also continuing in the cast of the musical comedy, now in its seventh year, are Claybourne Elder<\/a> as\u00a0Dr. Orin Scrivello D.D.S.,\u00a0Reg Rogers<\/a> as Mushnik, Christian McQueen as The Voice of Audrey II, Christine Wanda as Ronnette, Savannah Lee Birdsong as Crystal, and Morgan Ashley Bryant as Chiffon, as well as Teddy Yudain, Weston Chandler Long, Mecca Hicks, Jeff Sears, Aveena Sawyer<\/a>, Christopher Swan, Alloria Frayser, Chani Maisonet, Johnny Newcomb, Jon Hoche<\/a>, Jonothon Lyons<\/a>, and Noel MacNeal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Previous players in the roles of Seymour and Audrey Off-Broadway have included Jonathan Groff<\/a>, Tammy Blanchard<\/a>, Jeremy Jordan<\/a>, Lena Hall<\/a>, Maude Apatow, Gideon Glick<\/a>, Rob McClure<\/a>, Skylar Astin<\/a>, Conrad Ricamora<\/a>, Matt Doyle<\/a>, Darren Criss<\/a>, Milo Manheim, Sherie Rene Scott<\/a>, Evan Rachel Wood, Corbin Bleu<\/a>, Constance Wu, Sarah Hyland<\/a>, Andrew Barth Feldman<\/a>, and RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Jinkx Monsoon<\/a>, who became first drag queen to play Audrey in a major production of the musical.<\/p>\n

Director Michael Mayer’s creative team for the Howard Ashman-Alan Menken musical also includes choreographer Ellenore Scott<\/a>, scenic designer Julian Crouch<\/a>, lighting designer Bradley King<\/a>, costume designer Tom Broecker<\/a>, sound designer Jessica Paz<\/a>, puppet designer Nicholas Mahon, original puppet designer Martin P. Robinson<\/a>, hair and makeup designer Tommy Kurzman<\/a>, music supervisor, orchestrator, and arranger Will Van Dyke<\/a>, and casting director Jim Carnahan<\/a>. Puppets are by Monkey Boys Productions.<\/p>\n

General management is by Live Wire Theatrical\/Chris Aniello<\/a>, and production stage management is by Kate Croasdale<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Little Shop of Horrors\u00a0will be pausing performances June 9 through June 12 for theatre repairs\u2014but don’t worry,\u00a0Audrey\u00a0II didn’t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-244568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}