Encores! LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS Adds Additional Performance, 7/2

New York City Center has announced that due to an overwhelming demand for tickets, the Encores! Off-Center production of Little Shop of Horrors will now play for two performances, on July 1 and 2, 2015. Tickets for the newly added July 2 performance will go on sale at noon today (January 21).

Howard Ashman and Alan Menken¹s Little Shop of Horrors is a sci-fi musical about a hapless florist shop worker who acquires an R&B-singing plant that feeds on human blood. The production will star Ellen Greene, who created the role of Audrey in the original Off-Broadway production. Little Shop of Horrors will be directed by Dick Scanlan, with choreography by Patricia Wilcox. The show premiered Off-Off-Broadway in 1982 before moving Off-Broadway to the Orpheum Theatre, where it played 2,209 performances, winning the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Drama Critics¹ Circle Awards for Best Musical. It was revived on Broadway in 2003, playing 372 performances at the Virginia Theatre.

City Center¹s acclaimed Encores! Off-Center series, under the artistic direction of Jeanine Tesori, returns for a third season of landmark Off-Broadway musicals, opening on June 24, 2015 with William Finn and James Lapine¹s A New Brain starring Jonathan Groff, directed byJames Lapine. Andrew Lippa¹s The Wild Party starring Sutton Foster and Joshua Henry, and directed by Leigh Silverman, wraps up the season, opening on July 15. Chris Fenwick is the Encores! Off-Center music director.

The series presents Off-Broadway musicals that pushed creative boundaries when they were first produced. Filtered through the lens of today¹s artists, these shows are presented not as historical documents but as living, vital works that continue to resonate with audiences. The series also features The Lobby Project, a series of free performances, conversations and readings by groundbreaking artists, poets, authors, and performers. The Lobby Project events place each musical in the context of its legacy and provide insights into the work the audience is about to experience. (Schedule of Lobby Project events TBA)

New York City Center gratefully acknowledges the Encores! Off-Center Founding Sponsors, Stacey and Eric Mindich and Stacy Bash-Polley; Series Sponsor, American Express; Major Supporters, Nathalie and Pablo Salame; with additional support provided by The Frederick Loewe Foundation; Paula and Ira Resnick; Alec Stais and Elissa Burke; and the Stephanie and Fred Shuman Fund for Encores!

Tickets to Encores! Off- begin at $25 and can be purchased at the New York City Center Box Office (West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues), through CityTix® at 212-581-1212, or online at www.NYCityCenter.org.

2015 Encores! Off-Center Performance Schedule

A New Brain will play five performances, June 24 - 27 as follows: Wednesday, June 24 and Thursday, June 25 at 7:30 pm; Friday, June 26 at 8 pm; Saturday, June 27 at 2 and 8 pm.

Little Shop of Horrors will play two performances, on Wednesday,July 1 and Thursday, July 2 at 7:30 pm.

The Wild Party will play five performances, July 15 ­ 18, as follows: Wednesday, July 15 and Thursday, July 16 at 7:30 pm; Friday, July 17 at 8 pm; Saturday, July 18 at 2 and 8 pm.