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In this play, Little Shop of Horrors, we watched an employee, Seymour, working at a struggling flower shop, Mushnik's Skid Row Florist's. Seymour, along with his fellow employee Audrey and his boss Mr. Mushnik and three street kids who narrate the play, are all lamenting their place in life. One day, Seymour brings into the flower shop an exotic plant that he doesn’t know the origin of, only that it appeared after an eclipse. The play follows Seymour and the flower shop and their rise to fame because of the newly acquired plant “Audrey II” (named after his fellow employee whom he is secretly in love with). After trying to feed and take care of the plant in all the ways he knows how, Seymour finds out that this plant requires blood to grow. …show more content…
While this dilemma has been brewing, Audrey has also been wishing to leave her abusive boyfriend and dentist, Orin Scrivello. After Orin visits the shop and suggests to Seymour that he takes the plant and get out of Skid Row, Mr. Mushnik adopts Seymour in hopes to make him stay and keep up the success of his business. With Seymour struggling to provide enough blood for Audrey II, the plant reveals its ability to speak and suggests bringing him Orin to eat. He justifies Orin’s death by pointing out his abusive behavior towards Audrey. Seymour is convinced and even through Seymour couldn’t bring himself to kill Orin on his own, Orin ends up overdosing on his nitrous oxide and is fed to Audrey II. This is the conclusion to Act I and Act II only continues with more characters being feed to Audrey II until none are left, even Seymour running into the plant’s open

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