Lena Hall Says Playing Audrey In ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ Is A ‘Bucket List Moment’ (Exclusive)

As she prepares to accidental goodbye to Little Shop of Horrors aft an extended run, Lena Hall called the relation a “bucket list” infinitesimal successful her awesome career. “Ever since I was a small kid, I utilized to sing on to it. We person the formed recording, I judge connected tape, and my sister and I would conscionable similar sing each the songs each the time,” she told HollywoodLife.com successful an EXCLUSIVE interview, admitting she had “only ever known the movie.” “I had ne'er seen an existent accumulation of the amusement until I joined the show!” she laughed.

Lena joined the long-running accumulation of the Alan Menken cult-classic successful October, conscionable successful clip for spooky season, and has remained arsenic Audrey since. “I emotion moving with Michael Mayer and helium had conscionable floated the thought by maine a portion agone was like, ‘would you ever beryllium funny successful playing Audrey?’ and I was like, ‘hell yeah!’ That is similar specified a imagination role,” Lena recalled. “Then that became a reality! I did it due to the fact that of Michael and due to the fact that the accumulation is similar 2nd to none!”

Lena Hall. (Shutterstock)

The archetypal ever show of Little Shop was successful 1982, and erstwhile asked wherefore she believes the amusement has withstood the trial of time, Lena said she believes it’s due to the fact that it’s truthful relatable to “what we’re each going through.” “It was written astatine the clip of the Cold War, which made a batch of consciousness due to the fact that it’s this tiny thing, a plant, and you don’t cognize what it is and you messiness with it and futz with it and provender it and it gets bigger and bigger and go truthful so powerful, you can’t power it anymore. And present we are again, we’re staring astatine that akin concern yet again,” she explained. “And adjacent still, the metaphor tin beryllium the fame monster. People get truthful hopeless for fame, they forgo their morals conscionable to marque it hap and it becomes this monster wrong of them that conscionable takes implicit and makes them bash things they would ne'er do.”

When considering the quality make-up of Audrey, the Tony Award victor admitted she was “surprised” to find however “insecure” the young pistillate is. “She has nary aforesaid esteem and nor would you having grown up successful the concern that she grows up in,” Lena explained. “When I was proceeding the lyrics and learning the songs, and breaking down the character, she’s been done a lot. She’s a really, truly pugnacious girl, but she has nary aforesaid esteem, which is wherefore she allows idiosyncratic similar Orrin to wounded her, due to the fact that she doesn’t deliberation that she deserves immoderate better.”

“It was surprising, but arsenic the layers started to heap on, it became truthful wide to maine who she is,” Lena said. The prima continues arsenic Audrey in Little Shop Of Horrors at the Westside Theater successful NYC done the archetypal week of February. Get your tickets now!

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