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[0:00] Jeff Malone: Welcome to Half Hour with Jeff and Richie, the podcast where we explore the latest shows we see, sharing our insights and opinions on the performances, storylines, and everything in between.

[0:10] Richie Grasso: In today's episode, we're discussing the off-Broadway production of LITTLE SHOP of Horrors, currently playing at the Westside Theater in New York City.

[0:17] Jeff Malone: Whether you cannot catch the show in person or you want to expand your thoughts after seeing it, this episode is for you.

[0:22] Richie Grasso: And as always, we want to inform you that this episode will contain spoilers.

[0:26] Jeff Malone: So if you're ready to dive into this production, stick around with us.

[0:29] Jeff Malone: I'm Jeff.

[0:30] Richie Grasso: And I'm Richie, and we're thrilled to be your hosts for this episode.

[0:32] Jeff Malone: But before we start the conversation about LITTLE SHOP of Horrors, here are a few words from our advertisers.

[0:32] Richie Grasso: Half hour.

[0:32] Jeff Malone: LITTLE SHOP of Horrors is the man-eating, award-winning musical now in its fifth succulent year at the Westside Theater. This smash hit production now stars three-time Tony Award nominee Sherie Rene Scott of The Last Five Years, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Aida, who returns to the New York stage as Audrey, Broadway star Nicholas Christopher of Hamilton and Sweeney Todd as Seymour, and James Carpaniello of Rock of Ages as Dr. Orin Scrivello, DDS. Together they bring mouthwatering life to a show that has made millions of theatergoers laugh, scream, and give up gardening for good.

[1:27] Richie Grasso: Alrighty, so we're talking about the off-Broadway production of LITTLE SHOP of Horrors in today's episode. So let's start the conversation with our hot take.

[1:38] Jeff Malone: Alright. So my hot take on LITTLE SHOP of Horrors, it's one of my favorite shows. I think it's very smartly written. This production is very, very good. It checks all the boxes for me. And seeing Sherie Rene Scott in this was just such a wonder and joy for me. I loved seeing her in it. We're going to talk about her a little later, but the show itself, this production and the actual show is very, very good.

[2:01] Richie Grasso: Yeah. When we were leaving the theater, here's my hot take. You and I both kind of said, I think that LITTLE SHOP of Horrors might be one of those musicals that gets the "this is a perfect musical" category. And next to that, I will say it was amazing to see Sherie Rene Scott back on the stage. It's been a long time, and what she does with this role of Audrey is just perfect.

[2:30] Jeff Malone: So let's get into it.

[2:32] Richie Grasso: Let's do it. So when we talk about the actual show itself, you know, the show was a big off-Broadway hit in the 80s, big movie in the late 80s. It came to Broadway, you know. For those of you who don't know, in the early 2000s, a big production on Broadway. And I saw that production. I saw the original cast of Hunter Foster and Kerry Butler, and that plant was so big. It came out over the audience. It was huge. I couldn't believe that was coming out of the audience like that. Tons of puppeteers working it. It was just a mega. The orchestrations were beefed up. There was like they got probably at least a 10 or 12-piece orchestra. And now we're here in again another very commercial off-Broadway revival in a small space, but it's right in Midtown. It's in the right venue for it. And in its fifth year, they just constantly keep cycling in stars for these roles.

[3:25] Jeff Malone: You know, this is our third time seeing it. We've never done an official podcast on it. We saw Jonathan Groff do it when it first came.

[3:35] Richie Grasso: Yeah. And then we went back and we saw Maude because we had to see Maude Apatow. We love her, and she was great. And now we're here seeing Sherie, and I'll tell you something. The way the show is written, it's inspired by a real sci-fi horror film from the 50s. So there, right away, I think Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, before their Disney saga began, they did this. And I was talking to a friend recently about how like this started it all. It really did. This was their start.

[4:07] Jeff Malone: Yeah, and Howard Ashman, before he passed, he worked on LITTLE Mermaid and so many things. But this was like the launch into their mega careers, and it's just this wonderful mix of like camp, of course, camp, mixed with comedy, but then there's drama and there's like bizarre moments, but there's also like a message to it. If you really look into it, there's this like kind of rooted, no pun intended, like meaningful message here of sorts as well.

[4:37] Richie Grasso: Yeah, well, kind of breaking our half-hour podcast structure slightly today, I kind of wanted to maybe dissect a little bit in this first section here on what do you kind of think it, I guess in our terms, qualifies as a perfect musical? And why did we both kind of like turn to each other after leaving this show and say, "Wow, that is just like a perfect musical?" You know, you want to know what's what kind of rises to the top for me to answer that question is length and plot development. Right away, you have narrators coming out and saying, "Oh, beware, because we're about to tell you a story about this little shop, and something scary is gonna happen." And then instantly there's Seymour, there's Mr. Krellbourne, there's Audrey.

We're getting plot development, we're getting Skid Row. We immediately know the meat, you know, we're flowing through this plot really nicely. Nothing sags, nothing lags, and on top of it, I don't find there to be much filler at all. And I think that everything, almost every song is so good, right? There's no song where I say, "Oh my gosh, cut this. What a filler." Like, I don't even know how they would ever like do this differently because it's just written in a way where you do every song and every scene and everything flows. So to answer your question, I think there's a trim the fat element here.

[6:03] Jeff Malone: Yeah, like it's a completely edited. You know, the right moments are all on this stage. Narration is done in a creative way, not just a narrator way that you kind of they break the fourth wall. I think with the Urchins, you never really feel like they break the fourth wall.

[6:22] Richie Grasso: Right. I mean, and the Urchins are interesting. I think in this production, I think they're funny. I think when they need to be funny, I think they're serious when they need to be. I was kind of, I kind of sometimes now that you know, saying that seeing this production for the third time, I kind of was wishing for a little bit more from them at times. I find that the it's a safe presentation of the Urchins, and I wonder if it could go a little darker, a little grungier, a little belty, riffy more, just a little more. I just feel like their presentation is a little bit safe.

[6:53] Jeff Malone: Well, I also think they all played kind of different, and you know, we've seen this now three times. I think there may have been some of the same Urchins from when we last saw it with Maude. It's definitely not the same Urchins from when we first saw it. I mean, we originally saw Joy Woods as one of the Urchins when we saw it with Jonathan Groff. And I think I agree with you. I think there are some moments that, yes, you kind of just want them to push a little bit more in terms of the belt of it, because we know what has been done in those roles from previous productions. But there is also something that has more of this like schoolyard girl that's skipping school that's playing it a little safe, and I think it does work at the same time.

[7:40] Richie Grasso: Yeah, I think we know when we were in Pasadena Playhouse a few years ago and we saw that production with MJ and George Salazar. That was dark. And it was very sad. And I think that that was just a different interpretation of it. But there's enough camp and sadness and darkness throughout this that you don't need to overemphasize the comedy or overemphasize the dark. I think there's enough nice scatter throughout. But I think this whole show works because then you add this element of this plant, and this plant that takes over and eats them. And the puppeteering is a character of itself, of course. There's a voice, there's puppeteers, there's people operating this, and you realize like that's such a huge part of this is the growing of the plants and how big the plant gets, and the plant coming out, you know, at the end of "Don't Feed the Plants," and you know, covering over the first or second row of the audience. It's kind of a spectacle, you know, and it's exciting.

[8:37] Jeff Malone: Right. It is a spectacle. It has all of the moments that we need in a story. It takes, it's not original because it's built off of a film, and you know, they turned it into this musicalized version of it, which is great. But it has all of the right moments that I really think you want in a musical. And I also think, like, not to get serious about a message in LITTLE SHOP of Horrors, but I think there is this element of they created the monster.

[9:05] Richie Grasso: Yeah.

[9:06] Jeff Malone: And then they sacrifice themselves for the monster. And the monster won. And the last song they sing is "Don't Feed the Plants." And so there's this like you create your own narrative and your own outcome. If you, and it's commentary on the world, on life, on so many things. If you feed it, it grows. And then eventually you give yourself to it. That's what's so interesting, too.

[9:33] Richie Grasso: Well, and that plant represents anything you want it to be, you know. Like a great relation to that right away would be like technology. We fed into technology and look where it is now in this world to us, you know. And how many, and you know, we're living, starting to live in like the iPad generation of kids. Look at what that does to them. The tech is eating them in the same way.

[9:56] Jeff Malone: Well, and I know that seems probably bizarre, but that's how anyone can relate something to what the plant means.

[10:02] Richie Grasso: Well, which is why I think it's important that they're all singing in Skid Row about what they want. And then she's saying "Somewhere That's Green" because it's what she wants. What do they want? And they all want an escape from this life, and yet then they literally don't escape it because the dentist dies. I mean, everyone, spoiler alert, everyone dies, but they become part of the plant in this shop, they never leave. Right, yet they had such potential to because the plant, even if you know you could sit here and talk about so much in the meaning. I don't think we need to sit here and talk about the heaviness of this piece because I think this piece is not that heavy at times, and I think it's camp, and there's an element of light to it as well.

[10:42] Jeff Malone: But it's camp with a message. I mean, we're not gonna disregard that.

[10:46] Richie Grasso: Sure, of course. And there is a message, I think too. So really, really cool stuff. I want to kind of transition into some of the direction of this, some actor performances and some of the design choices here in this production. So let's go there now.

[10:57] Jeff Malone: But before we do, here's a few messages from those that make the show boss.

[11:03] Richie Grasso: Okay, and we're back. We're talking about LITTLE SHOP of Horrors. You know, this production is, I said this earlier, it's a little safe, it's a little squeaky clean, it's a little cookie cutter in the presentation of it. We're in a small theater, everything is flowing seamlessly. It's a little, and I say safe not in a negative way, it's just a very clean cut, professional, clean production of it. I don't think Michael Mayer, who directed this, did anything completely out of the blue with it and didn't even have to.

[11:33] Jeff Malone: Right, because you don't, right, you really don't need to with this show. And I actually think if we don't overthink some productions, this is the exact home that LITTLE SHOP has always needed to kind of be in. You know, I know you've talked about how there was this big lavish production on Broadway, and you know, the plant was huge and whatever, but like what was the longevity of that LITTLE SHOP? Not too long because the original off-Broadway run and now this off-Broadway is so much longer.

[12:04] Richie Grasso: Yeah, and when you look at this, you say, "Oh, that's because LITTLE SHOP of Horrors is an off-Broadway show," right? And it needs the cult following, it needs the people that understand camp, and it kind of needs this star rotation. It keeps it, you know. People love LITTLE SHOP of Horrors so much already that this is what makes it work. It's the Chicago of off-Broadway, right?

[12:32] Jeff Malone: Right, and not to mention you have a follow, a lot of people know it because of the movie as well, and because of the original run. It's just like a tight, excuse me, high schools do it all the time too. Colleges, regionals, community theaters, people are always doing it. It's very popular, right? And you know, yes, is the set a little safe and the overall production a little safe? Sure, but it really works because they've mastered the idea of us wanting to see people playing the roles of Seymour and playing the role of Audrey, you know, and everyone else can kind of shuffle in there too, but you know, they've really mastered this.

[13:13] Richie Grasso: So I think the big thing that we need to talk about now here is who are playing those roles right now.

[13:19] Jeff Malone: Well, let's start with Nicholas Christopher. You know, we saw Nicholas Christopher in Sweeney Todd. He's got a wonderful voice, he's really singing this role. Like, I'm very impressed with the vocal. He is great, and he's carrying, you know, Seymour carries a lot of the show. I think he did a really nice job. What did you think?

[13:37] Richie Grasso: I thought so too. I think that this was a different way of seeing this. You know, I think when we originally saw it with Jonathan Groff, everyone was like, "This role was meant for Jonathan Groff right now, he's perfect," everyone loved it, and it's kind of what set the tone for what this run of LITTLE SHOP of Horrors was going to be off-Broadway.

[14:04] Jeff Malone: Then I forget who we saw the second time because we were supposed to see Matt Doyle. And it was an understudy we saw. Okay, so I'm not gonna name the name because I don't remember, but we were supposed to see Matt Doyle, and I'm sure we'll be having many things to be discussing about that if we saw him do it. But we did see him perform the, you know, some songs from it with Maude that were filmed, which were great. You know, I don't feel like I really missed anything with him. But anyway, now we're moving into Nicholas Christopher, and he's playing it in a very different way than what I had seen previously. He's a little bit more like animated, I guess you could say.

[14:58] Jeff Malone: There, there's many more reactions that we're getting from him than we ever got from like Rick Moranis. And I think that is catering and feeding off to what Sherry is giving in the role of Audrey. So I really do like what he's doing, and I felt like he created his own arc in what his Seymour was supposed to be.

[15:19] Richie Grasso: Right. And when you look at Audrey, it's interesting because the timeline and trajectory of Audrey is I think you can never forget what Ellen Green did with the role because it was so iconic. It was so over the top. She was the one asked to go do the movie, and I don't think anybody else was but her. And so the fact that she went and did the film and then did a years later at City Center Awkwards, the Jake Chillen hall, and like she's doing it all these years later. And it's like, I don't want to say she's a one-trick pony, but that was like her thing. Like she did other things, but this was like her thing, and she did such camp to the role that the role worked because she made it work in that ultra camp way with the accent and the scene la seamwa and all that, right? It just worked.

[16:07] Jeff Malone: Well, I think what's interesting about Ellen Green here is that she really created a character for Audrey that everyone has tried to kind of mimic, right? Instead of figuring out how to make it their own, except Sherry, and so we're gonna go there because we saw Maud and the other woman too. I forget the understudy, I believe, but in Maud, and now we're seeing Sherry, and I lots to say, but what are you thinking about Sherry's take on this?

[16:37] Richie Grasso: My feeling on this is I think that Sherry really is kind of the first actor to really put a spin on it that I didn't say, oh, she's trying to be Ellen Green. And what Ellen has created for Audrey. I think she looked at this and she said, 'I'm gonna do the Sherry version of this now,' and people are gonna remember it. And not to mention, if you take a step back and you say, you know, Sherry's three-time Tony nominee, she was the for me that Broadway of the early 2000s. Of course, you had Sutton Foster and Kristen Chenoweth and so many other people too, but she was the little bit of the underdog where she was always working, she was always in a show, never won a Tony Award yet, anyway. She was anything from Aida to uh in Aida to uh Journey Run Scoundrels to Ursula Last Five Years, original Last Five Years.

Like, so she did so much, and in the last I what I want to say, 10 years, we haven't seen her in anything on stage. So when I heard like her return was coming and that it was gonna be to this, I was like, Oh my goodness, yes, we have to go. So then we go, and I'm watching her, and I'm like, I'm literally crying because I'm just like moved that this woman is back, yeah, and yet I'm moved because like especially in Skid Row, but really in Somewhere That's Green, there's like this really deep serious take on this role, and it's not far-fetched, and it's not uh silly.

[18:15] Jeff Malone: Oh, she certainly gets silly when she needs to. I think one of the funniest things was when she said she's doing the phones and she's like, sorry, hold please. And she hangs up the phone accidentally and she looks at the audience like, oh, I think I just hung up on that. Like she has the oh Seymour, Seymour, but when she's going to serious town, I sit there and I say, Oh, I really, really, really felt feel bad for her. Like, I really do. And I usually I'm like, oh gosh, yeah, she just wants to be in a little townhouse out of the city with Seymour. But this was like, no, this woman's like life is on the line.

[18:49] Richie Grasso: Yeah, well, I think Sherry also really is a different person that's going into Audrey right now because we're talking about someone that knows how to act. We are talking about someone that is not just a star that's getting cycled into the role and it is coming from film or TV. This is someone who has knows how to create a character, embody the role, and she does it, you know. And you and I both were like, okay, she was doing some things with this role that we have never seen, where it was like, the oh, and the yeah, the hands and the facial responses. And it was just like, okay, she gets it. And I really think what she got was like that she was in a sci-fi film.

[19:40] Jeff Malone: Right.

[19:41] Richie Grasso: She encompassed the sci-fi ingenue of the 1950s, with mixed with some grit and some raw energy and emotion and a belt that she's still got and suddenly, suddenly Seymour, like when she's crying right before that, you're like, oh my god, I feel so bad for I just like emotional watching her up there because you feel for her.

[20:01] Jeff Malone: Yeah. And to say this is like her and Nicholas Christopher's chemistry, chemistry was so different than what we have seen. It worked so well. It worked because you really didn't buy that they were into each other at first, and that they did have this chemistry that they ended up falling in love. And there's also this level of like, I almost feel like with her, it's like because you see the abuse that she was gets from the dentist, you see her life, like there's a whole story to that character that we don't even know. And I love that because like you can kind of figure that out on your own. But there's something when she says this is gonna sound so silly because it's so campy, but when she's like, feed me to the plant because then you will take care of me, and I'm like, oh my god, and then she's like hugging him, and she's like, You'll wash my tender leaves.

And I'm like, oh my god, this is like so emotional to me. I just found it to be very moving. And I also thought it moving because it wasn't just boy meets girl, girl meets boy. It was like if I fall in love with you, Seymour, you will literally save my life, and I think that's where it roots itself in the seriousness for me that this woman needs to be saved.

[21:16] Richie Grasso: Yeah. And like he is gonna not just fall, but like she needs help. And I think I finally got that.

[21:24] Jeff Malone: Yeah.

[21:24] Richie Grasso: And from Sherry.

[21:27] Jeff Malone: I yeah, I agree. And I just think Sherry, and I I knew I was gonna see Sherry again at some point in my life. You know, we met her at the stage door, we talked to her, got a picture with her. I love I've always loved her. I've seen her in so much. She is up there for me. And this is, I think, the start of a renaissance for her. I think she's gonna work now.

[21:43] Richie Grasso: Well, that's what I was gonna say to you. I said, okay, does this launch her back into the Broadway scene? Thousand percent. We've been talking for a while that we've been missing some of our Broadway greats on the stage, the Sherry being one of them. And when she was announced for LITTLE SHOP, we said, okay, what's next? I mean, she like I know Vanessa Williams is playing like Miranda Priestling in Devil Resproud, but like Sherry, hello. And I just think Sherry acts through song like no other. She's committed to the role, and she's wonderful. So I I give her so much credit in this. I think we're gonna see her a lot more.

[22:22] Jeff Malone: And we are not gonna ask Patti LuPone about it.

[22:25] Richie Grasso: We won't ask my body. We've heard that Sherry through the grapevine. We've heard they don't get along. I don't know what's going on there, but um oh, wait, and before we before we move on to our next section of this, I I do want to praise a little bit of James Carpanello's death hilarious because he's doing some things up on that stage too that were some of the funniest that I've seen. He brought a very like sexual innuendo vibe to the role that I haven't really seen, that he was almost like this nymphomaniac, and um and he's it's a crazy role. Like you think of like, of course, like Steve Martin does it in the movie, and like someone and Christian Borle did in the original, he was so good. But yes, and it's very easy to go super comedy with it, but he brought a different kind of comedy that I haven't seen, you know.

And he played it was kind of effortless. Like you get scared at times because you think he's gonna really put that drill in his mouth. Like it's kind of and then when he's like dying on the floor, he's like, help me, help me. You're like, oh, this is kind of really screwed up the whole thing, right? Like, it's just it's just and he was great, totally.

[23:31] Jeff Malone: Totally. Well, let's move on to some of our experience of the show. We have a few fun facts to share with you all. Uh, so let's go there now. But first, here are a few messages from our sponsors.

[23:41] Richie Grasso: And we're back. So, experiences, I mean, the theater is packed, people are there, tourists and New York people. There was someone at the stage door next to us, uh, clearly a Sherry fan.

[23:53] Jeff Malone: Like, the Sherry fans are coming out.

[23:54] Richie Grasso: Yeah, and if I said to the majority of people in the world, like, oh, we saw Sherry and A Scott, non-theater people would be like, Who is that? But if you're a theater person from the last 20 something years, you would know you would have seen Sherry and throw it. And everyone's like, Oh my god, I need to go back and see it. So, um, but we do have a few fun facts that I was gonna share with you if you want to kind of roll through some of the fun facts of the show.

[24:16] Jeff Malone: Yeah, that's so the original Audrey in this revival is played by Emmy winner Timmy Blanchard, and now the role is taken on, as we know, by three-time Tony Award nominee Sherry Rene Scott. Since the show's opening in 2019, there have been at least 10 different actresses playing Audrey, including Sarah Highland, Maud Apatal, Joy Woods, and even RuPaul's Drag Race winner, Jinkx Monsoon. And my question to you on that, and maybe to everyone else too, is how many more Audreys do you think you think we're going to see in the run of this show?

[24:46] Richie Grasso: I think many. I think this is just going to keep running. It's selling well. We're going to just keep seeing TV stars, Broadway stars, young. You know what's also nice is when you see like younger women in the role and older women in the role. It totally works both ways, and I love that. So officially Audrey can be played by anyone. And who do we want to see play Audrey next?

[25:08] Jeff Malone: Oh my gosh. Where do I even go? Do you know who I think could like take a break from Chicago and go over there is Charlotte D'Amboise. I could totally see her like go over there and do it for eight weeks or something and then go back to Chicago.

[25:21] Richie Grasso: I don't know why that name pops into my head first, but I could see her do it.

[25:24] Jeff Malone: Okay.

[25:25] Richie Grasso: I'll buy it. I'll say if this one wants to do Broadway, maybe we'll have like a Chapel Rhone play Audrey.

[25:35] Jeff Malone: Okay.

[25:36] Richie Grasso: I can say I could say well, I love that. I love that I love that.

[25:41] Jeff Malone: All right. What other facts do we have?

[25:42] Richie Grasso: We have that this production of LITTLE SHOP of Horrors opened in October of 2019. And it recently just celebrated its 1000 performance. And not many shows hit that milestone. So it's pretty impressive.

[25:59] Jeff Malone: Yeah. You know what's interesting about off-Broadway is we don't really know the grosses off off-Broadway and how a production is running. So the fact that this one is running and it seems to be doing well still. Um, I think we're gonna see many more.

[26:13] Richie Grasso: Yeah. I will say that that poor West Side Theater, like when this show ever closes and moves out, like can we cut Reno that place, please? It's like I just feel like it needs some TLC. It works for this show because the Skid Row element, but uh, and it's in a great location. It's like an old church, I think. Um, but it's really great.

[26:30] Jeff Malone: Um, the creative team behind this revival includes Tony winner Michael Mayer as director and host of a talented crew of designers, including puppet designer Nicholas Mahon, who works alongside the original puppet designer Martin P. Robinson to create the show's iconic man-eating plant.

[26:46] Richie Grasso: And I think that puppet is so well designed.

[26:49] Jeff Malone: Yeah, it's impressive. You know, when you see that puppet moving and you know there's someone in there, and I'm like, it is wobbling back and forth. They're like, Oh, this is that thing is gonna fall over, and you're like, No, living for it. But it goes, you know what's so nice as the show has gone through the technology that we see on the stage today. We never get productions with like projections, and like you know, there could have been so many different ways to do the plant. You could add 10 people playing the plant, you could have had computer, you know, 3D images, and it's just like now let's go back to like that Jim Henson-esque, not that Jim Henson was associated with this, but that like Muppet Sesame Street vibe, because that's the camp, too. Is that it's a literal fabric puppet. So, like, there's this like camp to that, right? Like, there's such camp to the whole thing.

[27:38] Richie Grasso: I could have a whole podcast on camp because I think like every time I think of camp, I think of when RuPaul went to the Met Gala, not in drag, and everyone was like, Why is RuPaul not in drag at the Met Gala? And it's like, but that's the point. The point is Camp is that he's a famous, the famous drag queen who's not dressed in drag at the Met Gala Campbell. Like I I love Camp so much that I feel like you either get it or you don't. And like I think I get it so much that I would I love talking to people about like what is camp. Like it just totally works.

[28:10] Jeff Malone: So amazing. Very cool stuff.

[28:12] Richie Grasso: So very nice.

[28:14] Jeff Malone: Oh my gosh, we're just run out of time here. Rolling through LITTLE SHOP. What are your final thoughts on this amazing epic off-Broadway revival of LITTLE SHOP of Horrors?

[28:22] Richie Grasso: My final thoughts are listen, I love LITTLE SHOP of Horrors. Uh I didn't know much about LITTLE SHOP of Horrors until I met you, and I knew that it was one of your favorite shows. So right now, I think this is one of those perfect productions that you should go see. I wouldn't wait a really long time for your favorite person to go into the roles. I think you should just pick one and go see it. And I highly recommend you go see it with Sherry Rene Scott and Nicholas Christopher right now because I think they are great. But also, you know, I think we should demand some people into the roles that we want to hear. Uh do the roles. So anyway, that's that's my feeling.

[29:01] Jeff Malone: I totally agree. I do really love this so much. And I love Sherry Rene Scott in this role so much. And I loved this. I part of me feels like we'll be back a fourth time. I don't know when uh or with who. I just feel like every one to two years we're getting called back to this show.

[29:18] Richie Grasso: Yeah.

[29:18] Jeff Malone: Um, so it's a it's just hold a special place in my heart because I think it's a very well done show. So go check it out if you can for sure. Check it out. That does wrap up our discussion of today's episode. We hope you enjoyed our deep dive into LITTLE SHOP of Horrors. We will share the link with ticket information in our description here. And remember, we want to hear from you. Continue the conversation with us on Instagram at a half hour podcast and let us know your thoughts on LITTLE SHOP of Horrors. If you enjoyed our show, please leave us a review. Your feedback helps us bring more theater to you. And remember, you can listen to past episodes and stay tuned for upcoming ones as well. Until next time, I'm Jeff.

[29:52] Richie Grasso: And I'm Richie saying ta-ta for now.

[29:54] Jeff Malone: Bye.