Acting Job in "Little Shop of Horrors" Show

Tenor/Baritone. A menial laborer at Mushnik’s Flower Shop, Seymour is the improbable hero of the story. An insecure, put-upon florist's clerk and eventual hero. Secretly deeply in love with Audrey who is his colleague in Mushnik’s run-down Skid Row flower shop. Seymour is the owner of the carnivorous plant, Audrey II. He is a geeky plant enthusiast - and a genuine, well-meaning man who is taken for granted because of his clumsy ways and poor social skills, and the fact that he is so naive.

Mezzo Soprano. The gum-snapping secret love of Seymour's life, Audrey works with Seymour at the flower shop (Seymour names his plant after her.) Honest, sweet, vulnerable and insecure, Audrey is attractive but not well educated. She dreams of a "picket fence" life. She has poor self-worth and education, but a sweet and vulnerable demeanor. This role includes intimacy in the form of kissing.

Baritone/Bass. Provided by an actor on an offstage microphone. It is important that this actor have clear visual access to the puppets onstage, so that they can provide accurate lip-synch. The sound is a cross between Otis Redding, Barry White, and Wolfman Jack. Think of The Voice as that of a street-smart, funky, conniving villain-Rhythm and Blues' answer to Richard the Third.

An anthropomorphic cross between a Venus flytrap and an avocado. It has a huge, nasty-looking pod which gains a shark-like aspect when open and snapping at food. The creature is played by a series of four increasing large puppets, manipulated by one Puppeteer. (Who also plays Wino #1 in the first scene.) The first time we see The Plant, it is less than one foot tall. The last time we see it, it fills the entire stage.

Baritone. A tall, dark, handsome dentist with a black leather jacket and sadistic tendencies.He is not, however, a leftover from the movie version of Grease. Think instead of an egotistical pretty-boy-all got up like a greaser but thinking like an insurance salesman and talking like a radio announcer. (The actor who plays Orin also plays A Voice, not unlike God's, Wino #2, Customer, Radio Announcer, Mr. Bernstein, Mrs.Luce, Skip Snip, and Patrick Martin)

Baritone if played by a male, Mezzo Soprano if played by a female. Audrey and Seymour's boss. The seasoned owner of the failing East Side flower shop on Skid Row, and Seymour and Audrey's nosy boss. He is profit-driven, greedy, and manipulative. He is a man who seldom smiles and often yells.

Mezzo Soprano. They sing more than any other character and are on stage for the majority of the show. Three street urchins who function as participants in the action and a Greek Chorus outside it. They're the only people in the whole cast who really know what's going on. In their "Greek Chorus" capacity, they occasionally sing to the audience directly. And when they do, it's often with a "secret-smile" that says: "we know something you don't know".