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COMMUNITY NEWS
SLV Students Stage ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ S
an Lorenzo Valley High School Theatre Department presents Little Shop of Horrors, with book & lyrics by Howard Ashman and music by Alan Menken, directed by Daria E. Troxell, with music and vocal direction by Nicki Kerns, at the SLV Performing Arts Center, 7105 Highway 9, Felton, from March 4 through March 13. Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 7 p.m., with Sunday matinees at 2 p.m., and a special Community Night performance on Thursday, Photo Credit: Tara McMiliin March 10 at 7 p.m. Purchasing advance tickets is Seymour Krelborn (Cody Bumbaca-Thomas) has a crush on his highly recommended; advanced flower shop co-worker Audrey (Rachel Young), but he’s shy and she tickets are available online via the has a boyfriend. His caring for an unusual plant leads to a shocking SLV Theatre Boosters webpage: turn of events. Howard Ashman and Alan Menken https://hs.slvusd.org/apps/pages/theatreboosters. A limited number of tickets will be (Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Beauty available to purchase at the door one hour And The Beast, and Aladdin) are the creative geniuses behind what has become prior to show-time. Advisory: Little Shop of Horrors has one of the most popular shows in the dark themes and is not recommended for world. This is the second show Troxell has young children or very sensitive viewers. The story begins when a meek floral directed at San Lorenzo Valley High assistant, Seymour Krelborn, stumbles School, the first being Once Upon A Matupon a new breed of plant, which he names tress in 2007. Troxell is well-known as a director “Audrey II” after his co-worker crush. This foul-mouthed, R&B-singing with Mountain Community Theater, carnivore promises unending fame and Little People’s Repertory Theatre, Kids on fortune to the down-and-out Seymour, so Broadway. As an actor, she has appeared locally in: Miracle on 34th Street: The long as he continues to feed it blood. Over time, Seymour discovers Audrey Play, Harvey, A Streetcar Named Desire, II’s out of this world origins and intent on to name a few. She has a master’s in fine arts in acting from California Institute of global domination. A Broadway and Hollywood sci-fi the Arts. For Kerns, this is her fifth stint as smash musical, Little Shop Of Horrors has devoured the hearts of theatre-goers music director for San Lorenzo Valley for more than 30 years, and is one of the High School since Grease in 2017. She is the staff accompanist at San longest-running Off-Broadway shows. Lorenzo Valley High School, music director at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Santa Cruz, and teaches piano virtually from her studio in Boulder Creek. She has a piano performance degree from Dominican College and a master’s in music education from Boston University. n ••• Purchase tickets online at https://search. seatyourself.biz/webstore/accounts/slvhs/ buy-tix General admission is $20, and seniors/ students/SLV Staff, $15. For information, see https://hs.slvusd.org/ apps/pages/theatreboosters.
