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Seymour Krelborn (Rick Moranis) is a skid row nerd, languishing in Mushnik's Flower Shop. He loves the tramp goddess Audrey (Ellen Greene), but she too willingly suffers the bondage and discipline of the notorious Orin Scrivello, D.D.S. (Steve Martin). Not until Seymour strikes a Faustian bargain with a talking plant he calls Audrey II does our hero find the girl of his dreams. And the killer vegetation of his most festering nightmares...
...hunting cap approached the horseshoe-shaped meeting table. Whipping out a pistol, he shot one councilman in the head. As city officials ducked for cover, he fired eight more shots. When police arrived they found Mayor Edward King, 53, dead and two council members gravely injured. The gunman, Ralph Orin Davis, 69, had been angry with the city over a backed-up sewer...
More than any classical tragedian. O'Neill is obsessed with death-and neurosis. Orin, and to a lesser degree Ezra, are shattered by the horrors of war. And for all of the main characters, death eventually becomes the only reality. The sick not only destroy each other, but leave the healthy (such as the neighboring Niles family) irreparably scarred. Such an absolute pessimism is distinctly modern, and purely O'Neill...
Needless to say, the Mannons are not your typical family. The incestuous love Orin (Alek Keshishian) feels for his mother and the similar feelings Vinnie (Amy Brenneman) has for her father incite the pair to murder. Passion, jealousy, revenge and guilt ooze from the play like poisons. In O'Neill's hands, the characters' idiosyncracies give us modern insight into the psychological motivations for the original Greek figures...
...between the emotionally childish "daddy's little girl" and the cunning, evil woman who twists people to murder or suicide. But her snarling performance leaves the audience unable to pity her character. This bleak production denies Vinnie the final redemption earned by a tragic heroine. The other demanding role, Orin, occasionally eludes Keshishian, as he has trouble at first keeping the war-weary boy diffident and still remaining in character. Happily, the actor warms into his part. The rest of the cast perform competently, though more rehearsal time might have afforded them a greater degree of control and confidence. There...