WaterTower Presents LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS 7/22-8/21

WaterTower Theatre today announced the cast for Little Shop of Horrors, running July 22 - August 21, 2011 at the Addison Theatre Centre. The ensemble cast includes Janelle Gray as Crystal, Joseph Holt as the Voice of the Plant, Jason Kennedy as Seymour, Traci Lee as Ronnette, Kevin Moore as the Audrey II Puppeteer, Alex Organ as Orin, Randy Pearlman as Mr. Mushnik, Cara Statham Serber as Audrey and Kristen Smith as Chiffon. Making their WaterTower Theatre stage debuts are Janelle Gray, Joseph Holt and Alex Organ.

The creative team for Little Shop of Horrors is led by Director/Choreographer Amy Anders Corcoran. James McQuillen is the Music Director, Christopher Pickart is the Set Designer, Jason S. Foster is Lighting Designer, Curtis Craig is Sound Designer, Aaron Patrick Turner is Costume Designer, Georgana Jinks is Props Designer and Abby Kraemer is the Stage Manager.

Little Shop of Horrors previews July 22, 23, 24 and opens on Monday, July 25 running through Sunday, August 21. Press/Media night is Monday, July 25 at 7:30 pm.
Written by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, Little Shop of Horrors is the comedic stage musical that spoofs the 1962 Roger Corman classic cult film of the same name. Seymour, a Skid Row floral assistant, becomes an overnight sensation when he discovers an unusual plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood. Soon Audrey II grows and offers him fame, fortune and the girl he fancies, but all that Seymour holds dear is threatened by the plant's sinister agenda. Alan Menken and Howard Ashman later went on to create such successful Disney musical classics as Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid.

Little Shop of Horrors
Book and Lyrics by Howard Ashman
Music by Alan Menken
Amy Anders Corcoran - Director/Choreographer
James McQuillen - Music Director
Christopher Pickart - Set Designer
Jason S. Foster - Lighting Designer
Curtis Craig - Sound Designer
Aaron Patrick Turner - Costume Designer
Georgana Jinks - Props Designer
Abby Kraemer - Stage Manager

Performance Schedule:

July 22-August 21, 2011
Previews: July 22 and 23 @ 8:00 PM; July 24 @ 7:30 PM (pay what you can performance)
Opening night: Monday, July 25 @ 7:30 PM

Performances: July 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, August 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21.

Pay What You Can Performance: Sunday, July 24 @ 7:30 pm

Performance Times:
7:30 PM Monday, Wednesday & Thursday
8:00 PM Friday & Saturday
2:00 PM Sunday
2:00 PM Saturday on August 20

Individual tickets range in price from $20 - $40.

How/Where to buy tickets: www.watertowertheatre.org or 972-450-6232 or in-person at
WaterTower Theatre Box Office (Tuesday - Friday, 12 pm to 6 pm)
Addison Theatre Centre
15650 Addison Road
Addison, Texas 75001

About the Production (for calendar listing editors) Seymour, a Skid Row floral assistant, becomes an overnight sensation when he discovers an unusual plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood. Soon Audrey II grows and offers him fame, fortune and the girl he fancies, but all that Seymour holds dear is threatened by the plant's sinister.
About the Director:

Amy Anders Corcoran, director and choreographer, recently completed her Masters of Fine Arts in Directing at Penn State University under the tutelage of Tony Award-nominated Susan H. Schulman. Amy was the 2009 SDC Noel Coward Fellow for Comedic Direction, which placed her on a production of Private Lives at California Shakespeare Theater. Favorite directing credits include two productions of Smokey Joe's Café, The Little Dog Laughed, Rabbit Hole, In Trousers and All Night Strut. Favorite choreography credits include Crazy For You, Company and this summer's off-Broadway production of Thank You for Being a Friend: The Unauthorized Golden Girls Parody Musical. She has assisted on productions in London, Ontario, Canada at the Grand and at Goodspeed Opera House under Mark Rucker, Michael Lichtefeld and Christopher Gattelli. This season Amy directed WaterTower Theatre's production of Circle Mirror Transformation.

About WaterTower Theatre
WaterTower Theatre is celebrating its 15th anniversary with its 2010-2011 season. The Company is one of the leading regional theatres in Texas. It is consistently recognized for its artistic excellence by the Dallas Theatre League, Dallas/Fort Worth Theatre Critics Forum, The Dallas Morning News, The Dallas Observer, D Magazine and The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, among others. WaterTower Theatre has a subscription base of more than 2,100 subscribers and serves an audience of over 35,000 patrons annually.
WaterTower Theatre gratefully acknowledges the support of The Town of Addison, TACA, Texas Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. WaterTower Theatre is supported, in part, through the generosity of The 500 Inc., Ackley Financial Group, Inc./Armor Wealth Management, Atmos Energy, AT&T Yellow Pages, Liberty Capital Bank, Rainmaker Advertising, Target, The Shubert Foundation, and Media Sponsors the Dallas Voice, KERA's Art and Seek, The Dallas Observer, the Senior Voice WFAA and Addison - the Magazine of the North Dallas Corridor.

About Terry Martin
Terry Martin is WaterTower Theatre's Producing Artistic Director, a position he has held for 13 years. Terry has directed 46 productions for WaterTower Theatre. Some of his directing credits at WTT include Our Town, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Grey Gardens, Doubt, a Parable, The Full Monty, Man of La Mancha, Humble Boy, The Crucible, Take Me Out, A Country Life (which he adapted from Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and which won the 2005 Rabin Award - Best New Play), Cabaret, It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues, Company, An Inspector Calls, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Laramie Project, You Can't Take It With You, Book of Days, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2002 Rabin Award - Director of a Play), Sweeney Todd (2002 Rabin Award Nomination - Director of a Musical), Desire Under the Elms, Ravenscroft, Rockin' Christmas Party (2000, 2001), Enter the Guardsman (2001 Rabin Award Nomination - Director of a Musical), Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill and Little Shop of Horrors (2000 Rabin Award Nomination - Director of a Musical) among others. For Plano Repertory Theatre, he has directed Journey's End (2000 Rabin Award - Director of a Play), Dracula, La Bête, Little Shop of Horrors and Pump Boys and Dinettes.

 

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