Little Shop of Horrors (Dynamik Theatre)
Always a joy to spend some time down on Skid Row, well maybe 'a joy' is stretching a point for the location itself where life's a joke and the folks are broke but, this performance of Ashman & Menken's 'Little Shop of Horrors' by Dynamik Theatre is both emotional and gloriously entertaining. I always hesitate to highlight one particular performance, specifically when every member of the cast are quite frankly outstanding but, there is a Mary Poppins performance, that's 'practically perfect in every way' by Annabel Pilcher as Audrey, I have seen a multitude of performers in this role and she is vying for my top performance award. You can't have a great Audrey without a similarly impressive Seymour and Ollie Harper is impressively geeky and suitably endearing in the role (you almost want to shout 'tell her how you feel' and that is exactly how it should be, of course he gets there in the end but, not before feeding his voracious floral