Panic! Productions Announce J.Bailey Burcham to Direct LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

J. Bailey Burcham, hot off his searing, critically-acclaimed lead performance in Panic! Productions' mounting of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea at Theatre 68, has signed on as director of Panic!'s next show, Little Shop of Horrors. Burcham will put his stamp on the Menken-Ashman musical favorite by updating the action to Los Angeles' Skid Row in the 1990s. Helping Burcham bring this fresh concept to life are choreographer Tyler Matthew Burk, music director Josh Bednarsky, set designer Rei Yamamoto, lighting designer Shara Abvabi, and costume designer Barbara Mazeika.

Meek flower shop assistant Seymour pines for co-worker Audrey. During a total eclipse, he discovers an unusual plant he names Audrey II, which feeds only on human flesh and blood. The growing plant attracts a great deal of business for the previously struggling store. After Seymour feeds Audrey's boyfriend, Orin, to the plant after Orin's accidental death, he must come up with more bodies for the increasingly bloodthirsty plant.

J. Bailey Burcham's credits include Cabrillo Music Theatre's Damn Yankees, as well as such regional credits as Max Bialystock in The Producers and Dave Bukatinsky in The Full Monty at the Eldorado, Reno, Luther Billis in South Pacific with MTWichita, and George in Billy Elliot in Anchorage, Alaska.

Panic! Productions is a theatre troupe committed to presenting professional-level productions of musicals and plays for the enrichment of its participants and the community at large. Founded in 2011 by Paul Panico and Robert Weibezahl with a critically acclaimed production of Working: The Musical, Panic! has since mounted fifteen productions, which have won numerous honors including a Broadwayworld.com Award, twenty-three Vee Cee Awards, and eleven National Youth Arts Awards. Presenting less-often produced works as well as new interpretations of familiar ones, Panic! hopes to enhance the theatre-going experience while educating, and, most of all, entertaining its audiences. Panic! Productions is a 501© 3 non-profit organization. All donations are tax deductible to the full extend allowable by law.

Little Shop of Horrors opens June 2, 2017 at the Hillcrest Center for the Arts, 403 W. Hillcrest Drive, Thousand Oaks and runs through June 18. Tickets are $22-$25 and can be purchased online at www.HillcrestArts.com or by calling 805/381-1246