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by Valorie Lennox
The Review

Audrey II starts as a lovable
fuzzy green ball with gleaming
satiny petals, then develops a ter-
Tific singing voice and a great
sense of rhythm.

The plant — star of Grassroots
Theatre’s production of Little
Shop of Horrors — has only one
small flaw: it eats people.

“The plant is a nice guy. Pve-

got to stick up for the plant,” says
performer Bill Cinar, whose opin-
ion might be influenced by the fact
that he provides the voice for
Audrey II.

“He’s quite funny. I wouldn’t
mind having someone like that
around,” Cinar adds.

Dave Radford plays the nerdy
Seymour, discover and foster
mother to Audrey II in this musi-
cal spoof of B-horror flicks. Even
though Seymour raises Audrey II
on his own blood, Radford doesn’t
like the plant.

“The plant — he’s a liar and
he’s suckering Seymour into this
whole deal about becoming rich
and famous when all the plant
wants is world conquest,” Radford
said.

“When the plant starts eating
people, you start believing the

plant is not nice,” he added.

“He’s hungry and he’s got to eat
people — unfortunately. I don’t
see much evil in that,” Cinar
counters.

A SKID ROW DREAM of
someplace green
mesmerizes Audrey,
played by Donna
Heighes.

“Kids are going to hate the plant
because he eats people.” Still,
Cinar hopes at least a few people
recognize Audrey II’s finer points,
such as his great sense of rhythm
when shaking his roots.

Donna Heighes plays Audrey, a
pathetic clerk in the skid row
flower shop who dreams of green
suburbia where she can “cook like
Betty Crocker and look like
Donna Reed.”

Thanks to the fast-growing Aud-
rey II, Heighes said Audrey gets all
the real-life greenery she could
want.

Excellent coordination between
the student puppeteers and Cinar
brings the plant alive, Heighes
said.

“That plant — you’d swear that
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