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Posts Tagged ‘Little Shop of Horrors’
John Musker Question Countdown #1
During Mermaid, what would Howard do that would inadvertently make you laugh, and what would he do that would make you pull your hair out?
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Fantasy Cast
Justin Kudwa just started a discussion on Feed Me about which part he’d like to play in LSOH and how he’d interpret (or maybe reinterpret) the part.
It set me to thinking about my own dream LSOH cast. Because it’s ...
John Musker Question Countdown – Number 9
John Musker here with question #9 in our countdown:
“This is a tricky one. How different would Aladdin have turned out had Howard lived? Did Howard ever write a screenplay or did Linda Woolverton write the original draft?”
This is almost impossible ...
John Musker Question Countdown – Number 10
John Musker here, he of the tall, spindly frame and hatchet face, and happy to shed some light on the man who particularly helped Ron Clements and me bring a mermaid to life, and a genie to strut his stuff: ...
High School Musicals
Through the magic of Google subscriptions, I just came upon this video of a high school production of Little Shop.
I happened to have seen this production. Yes, it’s true, I go to see high school musicals – even when ...
Little Halloween of Horrors
As you can no doubt tell by the photo that runs with this blog, in the home of Howard's and my childhood, anything that had to do with makeup or costumes was the cat’s pajamas (black leotard and tights, cardboard ...
By Howard Ashman
Last week, while going through stuff for the Library of Congress, I found this piece written by Howard for what I think was a playbill (judging by the typeface). It would have been 1983 – Little Shop had been out ...
Source Material
Novelists are notorious embezzlers of the intimacies of their families and loved ones. I just read an article about Mona Simpson, the novelist who late in life discovered that Steve Jobs was her brother. They got to know each other, ...
A Few Of The Things That I Like – Thoughts on Demos
I have mixed feelings about demos and long lost lyrics. Of course, I think everything Howard ever wrote is brilliant (except perhaps for some juvenilia best left to our grandfather’s scrapbooks). I am a tad conflicted, though, when that material ...
The Howard Ashman Biography – future tense
Soon after Howard died, I wrote to a theater columnist whose work I admired, suggesting a biography of Howard. The columnist wrote back a sympathetic but pointed note saying that only time would tell if Howard and his work would ...