LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Composer: Alan
Menken
Lyricist: Howard Ashman
Opened: July 27, 1982,
Orpheum Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 2209
Note: Only recordings of
songs not found on the original cast album are noted below.
Act I Finale:
1. Little Shop Of Horrors, CD/DRG
12998 (Dequina Moore, Trisha Jeffrey, and Carla J. Hargrove with orchestra
conducted by Henry Aronson)
Bad (written
for but not used in the film version):
1. Howard Sings Ashman, CD/PS
Classics PS-869 (Ron Taylor with Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, piano) [also
found on Little Shop Of Horrors, CD/DRG 12998 (bonus demo track)]
2. Lost In
Boston IV, CD/Varese Sarabande VSD-5768 (Gerry McIntyre with music conducted by
Brad Ellis)
Bigger Than Hula-Hoops
(dialogue with underscoring):
1. Little Shop Of Horrors, CD/DRG
12998 (Douglas Sills, Hunter Foster, and Levi Stubbs with orchestra conducted
by Henry Aronson)
Call Back In The Morning:
1. Composer Demo (Howard Ashman
and Alan Menken)
2. Little Shop Of Horrors, CD/DRG 12998 (Kerry Butler and
Hunter Foster with orchestra conducted by Henry Aronson)
Crystal, Ronnette & Chiffon (not used):
1. The Alan Menken Album,
CD/Varese Sarabande VSD-5741 (Debbie Shapiro Gravitte with musical direction by
David Lawrence)
Entr'acte:
1. Little Shop Of Horrors,
CD/DRG 12998 (Orchestra conducted by Henry Aronson)
I Found A Hobby (not used):
1. Little Shop Of Horrors, CD/DRG
12998 (Howard Ashman with Alan Menken, piano) (bonus demo
track)
A Little Dental Music (written for
but not used in LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS):
1. Little Shop Of Horrors, CD/DRG
12998 (Alan Menken, piano and voice) (bonus demo track)
2. Lost In Boston
IV, CD/Varese Sarabande VSD-5768 (Eydie Alyson, Reece Holland, Jani Neuman, and
David Romano with music conducted by Brad Ellis)
Mean Green Mother From Outerspace (written for the film
version):
1. Little Shop Of Horrors,
CD/Geffen M2G-24125 (Levi Stubbs and Chorus with music supervised by Robby
Merkin)
2. Synthetic Broadway, CD/A Different Drum ADDCD1133 (Spray)
3.
Little Shop Of Horrors, CD/Pocket Songs PSCD 1400 (karaoke)
Some Fun Now (written for the film
version):
1. Little Shop Of Horrors,
CD/Geffen M2G-24125 (Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold, and Tisha Campbell with
music supervised by Robby Merkin)
2. Little Shop Of Horrors, CD/Pocket Songs
PSCD 1400 (karaoke)
Somewhere That's Green
(reprise):
1. Composer Demo (Howard Ashman
and Alan Menken)
2. Little Shop Of Horrors, CD/DRG 12998 (Kerry Butler with
orchestra conducted by Henry Aronson)
We'll Have Tomorrow (not
used):
1. Little Shop Of Horrors, CD/DRG
12998 (Howard Ashman and Alan Menken with Alan Menken, piano) (bonus demo
track)
2. The Alan Menken Album, CD/Varese Sarabande VSD-5741 (Debbie
Shapiro Gravitte with musical direction by David Lawrence)
The Worst He Treats Me (not used):
1. Little Shop Of Horrors, CD/DRG 12998 (Alan Menken, piano and voice) (bonus demo track)
WSKID (jingle with dialogue):
1. Little
Shop Of Horrors, CD/DRG 12998 (Douglas Sills, Hunter Foster, Rob Bartlett, and
Chorus with orchestra conducted by Henry Aronson)