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STAGE REVIEW

‘Little Shop of Horrors’ is serious fun at New Repertory Theatre

By Jeffrey Gantz

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  May 01, 2012

Perhaps not every production of the 1982 cult-classic musical “Little Shop of Horrors” conjures Shakespeare’s Scottish play, but the one that’s currently up at New Repertory Theatre certainly does. The girl-group trio — Chiffon (Jennifer Fogarty), Crystal (Lovely Hoffman), and Ronnette (Ceit McCaleb Zweil) — are the Bard’s three weird sisters; at the end, they don lab coats to report on the propagation of Audrey II. The musical is also, of course, great fun, and never more so than at New Rep, where simple, thoughtful production values rule.

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