MozartLover, do you like Little Shop...?? That and Sweeney Todd...gosh, they don't seem very entertaining to me...However.., you sound great!
Now off the the laundry pile...got the car tires checked this a.m., and bought my husband a nice sports coat - on sale - then some other stuff, and time with my mother...all the while with the 12 Days of Christmas going thru my head...
We're performing a musicological study of that carol: everything from Gregorian chant style to a Sousa march. It's pretty funny, and you're probably familiar with it. The only one I don't like is the Wagner Ride of the Valkyrie section!
Sweeney Todd is very dark, but Little Shop, in spite of the gruesome theme, is very, very funny and entertaining. It is intended as a spoof; a send-up, if you will, of all of those Grade B sci-fi pics of the 50's and 60's. The music is quite raucous...lots of doo-wop and 60's rock, and a bit of hard rock thrown in there & there; and a couple of campy ballads.
We got a 4-star review in our local paper. The reviewer mentioned "the strong orchestra". He often doesn't say a word about the orchestra at all so I took this as a compliment.:)