Little Shop of Horrors

by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken
Loft Theatre Company, December 2003
Director: Kenny Robinson

Me as Patrick Martin (one of eight characters I played in the show), with Michael as Seymour.

Putting the pressure on: me in a very ill-advised wig and leathers as Orin Scrivello, DDS – the world’s most sadistic dentist.

My first and, to date, only venture into drag. Michael finds me strangely un-alluring as Mrs Luce.

The finale. Audrey II sprouts new pods bearing the faces of her victims for Don’t Feed the Plants. John Hathaway as Mr Mushnik, Michael as Seymour, Ruth MacCallum as Audrey and me as – who was I supposed to be at this moment? Probably Orin, but I didn’t have time to get back into the wig. Somewhere inside the main body of the plant is puppeteer Marc Buckingham.