Oct. 26--Lift up your head, wash off your mascara: 1986's "Little Shop of Horrors" comes to Millennium Park for a free outdoor screening on Halloween.
Adapted from the stage musical of the same name about a plant with a taste for human blood, the movie version stars Rick Moranis as the bespectacled flower shop worker Seymour, Ellen Greene as the baby-voiced, plantinum-haired object of his affection Audrey, and Steve Martin as the dentist with a talent for causing pain ("People will pay you to be inhumane!" goes one of the more gleeful lyrics).
The screening is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion. Temperatures are expected to reach a high of only 57 degrees, so you might want to consider bringing a blanket or two and a thermous filled with something hot. For more info go here.
Next month, the Music Box continues its Thanksgiving tradition with "Sound of Music Sing-A-Long" (Nov. 27 and 29 and continuing the following weekend Dec. 5and 6; tickets are on sale now). I did a deep-dive into the movie's origins and its sing-a-long history a few years back, which you can read about here. For tickets go to musicboxtheatre.com.
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