Alan Menken - Little Shop Of Horrors (1986 Film)
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Artist: Alan MenkenComposer: Howard Ashman
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Geffen Records
Soundtracks:
- Prologue (Little Shop Of Horrors) - Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell, Bill Mitchell
- Skid Row (Downtown) - Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell, Ellen Green, Rick Morranis Donny Gerrard
- Da-Doo - Rick Moranis, Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell, The Do Wops
- Grow For Me - Rick Moranis, Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell,
- Somewhere That's Green - Ellen Green
- Some Fun Now - Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell,
- Dentist! - Steve Martin, Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell, Robby Perkins, Robert Billig,
- Feed Me (Git It) - Levi Stubbs,Rick Moranis, Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell
- Suddenly, Seymour - Rick Moranis, Ellen Green, Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell
- Suppertime - Levi Stubbs, Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell
- The meek Shall Inherit - Rick Moranis, Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell, Robby Merkin, Frank Oz...
- Mean Green Mother From Outerspace - Levi Stubbs, Chorus
- Finale (Don't Feed The Plants) - Chorus
Music reviews of Little Shop Of Horrors (1986 Film)
Music Review: Doesn't compare
Rating: 3 Stars
Next to the other Little Shop recordings out there, this one just doesn't measure up. Some of the tracks are pretty good (even when compared to the Broadway recordings), whereas others are just so-so.
Rick Moranis and Steven Martin do a pretty decent job in their roles. One of the biggest weaknesses here is the two Audreys. I don't like Ellen Greene at all -- she plays Audrey a little *too* ditzy, to the point of being annoying -- and Levi Stubbs just doesn't have the deep, rich voice that the Audrey II really needs.
On the plus side for this recording: you get songs that were cut from the botched ending of the movie, namely "The Meek Shall Inherit" and "Don't Feed the Plants". You also get a song that isn't on any of the other recordings: "Mean Green Mother From Outer Space". Unfortunately, because of references to Frankenstein and King Kong, this otherwise pretty decent song moves to cheeseville.
Also a plus, you don't get that lame "Suddenly, Seymour" reprise that felt (and in fact was) tacked onto the end of the movie.
On the minus side, you don't get that lame "Suddenly, Seymour" reprise, which means that this isn't quite an accurate reflection of the movie's soundtrack. The song "Suppertime II", where the Audrey II is singing to Audrey, was also inexplicably left out.
Although one might be able to make the case that movie pacing requires the shortening of the original stage versions of the songs, there's quite a bit of truncation here that leaves a kind of cheap feeling to this recording if you're accustomed to hearing the longer original versions.
The orchestrations are pretty good, although some of them take some getting used to before you can appreciate them (e.g., The Meek Shall Inherit).
In the end, I can only recommend this recording to people who have to own every possible recording of Little Shop. My personal recommendation for the "one Little Shop recording" listener is the New Broadway Cast Recording.
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