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The Little Shop of Horrors is coming to Ilkley Playhouse this June!

The Northern Academy of Performing Arts will be putting on a production of the very silly Broadway classic musical, Little Shop of Horrors, in Ilkley running from Tues 12th June until Sat 16th June 2007. This is the tale of a sweet, vulnerable Marilyn Monroe type-figure, a dentist with sadistic tendencies, an insecure, naive, put-upon florist's clerk hero and a man-eating plant!

I'm incredibly excited to be involved in this production as the Musical Director (my debut in this role, no less!) and looking forward to working with Ruth Marston who will be directing and choreographing it, as well as with what promises to be a hugely talented cast made up partly of NAPA students and a select few friends of the organisation.

For further information about the show, and to book tickets in advance, contact Greg Silverwood at NAPA on 0113-2505286. Or feel free to contact me with any general queries about it.




In any case, no doubt readers of this blog will be hearing more about the show and be subjected to the odd plug here and there. As anyone in the industry will be aware, it is massively expensive to put on any theatre production so, for the company just to break even, everyone involved needs to do his/her bit to encourage as many people as they can to come along and see it. In the case of NAPA's Little Shop of Horrors this June, I'm sure there'll be no problems filling seats - this is a fantastic and hilarious show with a brilliant script and a wonderful score by Alan Menken. What more can I say... COME AND SEE IT!!!!