"Little Shop of Horrors"

On January 31 and February 1 and 2, upper-school students staged a production of Little Shop of Horrors. This horror-comedy-rock musical follows a hapless florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood and flesh (based on the film by Roger Corman and screenplay by Charles Griffith).

A number of students performed in the cast — as listed in the program: Will Tao '26, Sarah Brown '25, Owen Front '25, Ricco Martin '27, Sylvia Andrews '27, Ella Deutsch '25, Miko Kim '25, Molly Magarian '25, Delali Suggs-Akaffu '27, Gabbie Williams '25, Kenley Satcher '26, Abby Albrecht '27, Ledger Brooks '27, Julia Burr '27, Juniper Colbert '28, Gavin Daengsurisri '25, Perla Eidson '26, Aria Langley '27, Daisy Lazaroff '27, Sadhbh Leonard '28, and Addison Stisser '26.

The pit orchestra featured Aaron Brown, Noah Clark '26, Anita Hagerman (Performing Arts), Joe Neske, and Deven Shah '26.

The show was directed by Drew Battles (Performing Arts, with choreography by Taylor Pietz (Performing Arts) and music direction by Chris Thomas (Performing Arts); Mr. Thomas also directed the pit orchestra). The set was designed by Erin Nadler (Performing Arts), costumes were designed by Carla Landis Evans, and lighting was designed by Sid Council '25. The Audrey II puppets were designed and constructed by Sarah Koehn and Kellie Rieg, with support from Sally Renoux.

Thanks to production stage manager Theo Wolfgram '25; assistant stage manager Jayla Pruitt '26; lighting operator Sid Council '25; audio engineer Daniel Kim '28; monitoring engineer Adi Veeramachaneni '27; spotlight operators Elsa Lattanand '25 and Audrey Gray '25; and stagehands and crew members Priya Antony '26, Quincy Battles '28, Emily Bernstein '26, Connor Braig '28, Clay Edelson '25, Nithya Gnanarajah '28, Audrey Gray '25, Alex Greuloch '28, Dalton Harrold '25, Ava Holman '25, Connor Jenks '28, Cate Kiley '26, Daniel Kim '28, Mara Kniep '26, Molly Kreitman '26, Clare Lattanand '28, Eva Lemley '27, Clare Price '28, Beverly Ratliff '28, Cate Reim '27, Audrey Schaefer '26, Sabrina Small '25, Mitchell Smith '26, Adi Veeramachaneni '27, Corey Woods '28, and Willa Yearson '25.

Thanks also to Nick Bible, Amanda Werre, Alex Conn, Timothy Henderson Jr., Tim McDermott, Byron Stough, Brian Hartmann, Nate Andrews and the Plant Operations crew, Stages St. Louis, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Joe Novak, and The Producers, a Parents Council committee dedicated to supporting performing arts. 

Music by Alan Menken, book and lyrics by Howard Ashman.

Photos by Emma Sacks '26 and Emma Birge-Osborne.