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- Immediately attracting a customer, Seymour explains he bought the plant – which he dubbed "Audrey II" – from a Chinese flower shop during a solar eclipse ("Da-Doo").
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Audrey II (now enormous) called Audrey, Seymour's lifelong crush on the payphone and convinced her to come over to the shop only to eat her. Seymour didn’t save Audrey in time and unwillingly, yet on her dying wishes, fed her to the blood hungry plant.
Immediately attracting a customer, Seymour explains he bought the plant – which he dubbed "Audrey II" – from a Chinese flower shop during a solar eclipse ("Da-Doo"). The plant brings much business to Mushnik's shop, but soon starts to wither.
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- The film cost nearly $30 million -- at the time, it was Warner Bros. most expensive movie.
- Director Frank Oz, then best known as the voice of Yoda and Miss Piggy, and the production struggled to find the best ways to bring the singing, man-eating plant to life.
- To depict the various sizes of the plant shown in the film, the production built six animatronic "mean green mothers." The smallest was four inches tall, while the biggest plant -- used for the finale -- stood a crazy-tall 12 feet.
- For the climax, the 12-footer -- and its pod of smaller (all-singing) flytraps -- needed as many as 60 operators to execute the complex sequence. Operators would be on the floor, pulling various levers and cables to bring the alien plant to life.
Audrey II is an insatiable, heartless and egotistical plant who relies on manipulating Seymour to grow large enough to eat humans on its own. Despite having no visible eyes or ears, it can still see and hear.
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Seymour realizes that he made a mistake giving Audrey II his blood in the first place. He then takes Audrey after she had passed away and carefully sets her inside the plants mouth. Devastated, he runs through town and rushes up to the top of a building.
As Audrey II coaxes Seymour to sacrifice Mushnick to clear his own name ("Suppertime"), Seymour nervously backs Mushnick into the gaping maw of the hungry plant, killing two birds with one stone. With Audrey II grown to enormous proportions, Seymour's celebrity increases ("The Meek Shall Inherit").
Aug 29, 2023 · The horror-comedy musical follows the misadventures that take place at Mr. Mushnik’s flower shop on Skid Row, thanks to an employee named Seymour and his plant that feeds on human blood. What’s it like to bring the world’s most famous man-eating plant to life eight times a week?
