As well as doing some dialogue in Hannah’s performance of Somewhere That’s Green, however we just didn’t have time to learn all these different bits so close to the show, so we decided to just do Feed Me as it’s a bigger number & required backing singers. Relatively late on in the process, Jenny, Rosie & I were asked by Richie & Aaron to play Ronette (Jenny), Chiffon (Me) & Crystal (Rosie) in their performance of Feed Me from Little Shop Of Horrors. You (I) need blood and he’s got more than enough Smackin’ her around and always talkin’ so tough. The guy sure looks like plant food to me. ![]() Makin’ all the guys on the corner turn green Show a little 'nitiative, work up the guts Trust me and your life will surely rival King Tut’s All the way through this Chiffon, Ronette & Crystal smugly look on with their ‘We know something you don’t’ mentality, enjoying the song thoroughly as back-up singers. We also see Seymour turn from a sweet, innocent young botanical genius, into a prospective murderer, fueled by his desire for fame, fortune & the girl of his dreams. We see the plant turn from an inanimate bit of foliage to a monsterous creature with a persuasive manner & wicked mind. In fact, with some convincing from the plant, he decides on his first victim almost instantaneously: Orin. This (along with the offers of fortune, fame & the like) is what changes Seymour’s mind about murdering for the plant. We also get to see on stage an example of the domestic abuse that is contained within Orin & Audrey’s relationship as he slaps her for forgetting her jumper. However, when told that it can’t have any more blood, the plant shows just how aware & intelligent it really is, proving it is anything but an inanimate object it not only begins to talk to Seymour, but starts to sing! It tries to bribe Seymour into killing someone so it can satisfy its need for blood, offering him fortune, fame & Audrey. Although Seymour has been feeding Audrey II bloody because it will eat nothing else, he sees it as nothing more than an inanimate object, a harmless plant. ![]() This is a big, entertaining number, in which we see a vital change in the storyline of the show. ![]() This is a seduction type song with a difference the plant offers Seymour anything he wants, all he has to do in return is supply it with fresh human blood" - Alexander Baron "Feed Me (Git It)” is a first written by lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken for their adaptation of the 1960 Roger Corman film The Little Shop Of Horrors, it is sung in the 1986 film version by the hapless shop assistant Seymour, played by Rick Moranis, and the plant, which was voiced by Levi Stubbs (1936-2008) of The Four Tops. “Duets between men and women, buddies or girlfriends, are not a rarity in musicals, but there can’t be many between a shop assistant and a singing plant.
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