He sets up a late-night appointment with Orin, intending to kill him. However, Seymour loses his nerve and decides not to commit the crime. Unfortunately for Orin, who is getting high on nitrous oxide, the gas device is stuck in the “on” position, and he suffocates while asking Seymour to save him. Seymour cannot bring himself to shoot Orin but lets him die of asphyxiation (“Now (It’s Just the Gas)”). Seymour feeds Orin’s body to the now huge Audrey II, and the plant consumes it with ravenous glee (“Act I Finale”). Act II The flower shop is much busier, and Seymour and Audrey have trouble keeping up with the onslaught of orders (“Call Back in the Morning”). Audrey confides to Seymour that she feels guilty about Orin’s disappearance, because secretly she wished it. The two admit their feelings for one another, and Seymour promises that he will protect and care for Audrey from now on (“Suddenly, Seymour”). The two plan to leave together and start a new life, although Seymour mistakenly attributes Audrey’s feelings to his newfound fame, not realizing that she loved him even before he found the plant. Before they can go, Mushnik confronts Seymour about Orin’s death. Mushnik has put two and two together: the bloody dentist’s uniform, the drops of blood on the floor, and he has seen Seymour and Audrey kissing. Seymour denies killing Orin, but Mushnik wants him to give a statement to the police, who have begun investigating. Audrey II tells Seymour that he has to be rid of Mushnik or he will lose everything, including Audrey (“Suppertime”). Seymour tells Mushnik that he put the days’ receipts inside Audrey II for safekeeping. Mushnik climbs inside the plant’s gaping maw to search for the money, realizing the deception too late, and screams as he is devoured. Seymour now runs the flower shop, and reporters, salesmen, lawyers, and agents approach him, promising him fame and fortune. Although tempted by the trappings of his success, Seymour realizes that it is only a matter of time before Audrey II will kill again and that he is morally responsible. He considers destroying the plant but believing that his fame is the only thing that is earning him Audrey’s love, he is unable to do so (“The Meek Shall Inherit”). As Seymour works on his speech for a lecture tour, Audrey II again squalls for blood. Seymour threatens to kill it just as Audrey walks in asking when Mushnik will return from visiting his “sick sister”. Seymour learns that Audrey would still love him without the fame and decides that Audrey II must die after the scheduled LIFE magazine interview at the shop. Audrey is confused and frightened by Seymour’s ramblings, but she runs home by his order. That night, unable to sleep and distressed by Seymour’s strange behaviour, Audrey goes to the flower shop to talk with him. He is not there, and Audrey II begs her to water him. Not sensing the mortal danger, she approaches to water it, and a vine wraps around her and pulls her into the plant’s gaping maw (“Sominex/Suppertime II”). Seymour arrives and attacks the plant in an attempt to save Audrey. He pulls her out, but Audrey is mortally wounded. Her dying wish is for Seymour to feed her to the plant after she dies so that they can always be together. She dies in his arms, and he reluctantly honours her request (“Somewhere That’s Green” (reprise)). Seymour falls asleep as Audrey II grows small red flower buds. The next day, Patrick Martin from the World Botanical Enterprises tells Seymour that his company wishes to sell leaf cuttings of Audrey II in florist shops across America. Seymour realizes the plant’s evil plan: world conquest. He tries shooting, cutting, and poisoning the plant, but it has grown too hardy to kill. Seymour, in desperation, runs into its open jaws with a machete planning to kill it from the inside, but he is quickly eaten. Patrick, Crystal, Ronette, and Chiffon search for Seymour. Not finding him, Patrick tells the girls to take the cuttings. Crystal, Ronette, and Chiffon relate that, following these events, other plants appeared across America, tricking innocent people into feeding them blood in exchange for fame and fortune. Out of the fog, Audrey II, bigger than ever, appears with opened new flowers revealing the faces of Seymour, Audrey, Mushnik and Orin, who beg that, no matter how persuasive the plants may be, they must not be fed (“Finale Ultimo: Don’t Feed the Plants”). Audrey II slithers towards the audience threateningly CAST: - M5 F4 (plus chorus and extras) Seymour Krelborn - a nerd Audrey - his beloved Mr. Mushnik - a florist Orin Scrivello - an evil dentist Chiffon Crystal Ronette Audrey II - a carniverous plant Audrey II (voice) Audrey II (puppeteer)
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