Jake Gyllenhaal is slated to make his NYC musical debut this summer as "Seymour," the nerdy florist in the Encores! Off-Center production of “Little Shop of Horrors” at City Center this summer.
Talk about a tough acting assignment: how you gonna make Jake Gyllenhaal "nerdy?"
Mr. Gyllenhaal will play Seymour, who tries to woo his co-worker Audrey with a carnivorous plant, in a concert production of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s long-running Off-Broadway comedy. Taran Killam, the “Saturday Night Live” star, will also make his musical debut, as the psychotic dentist and romantic rival, Orin Scrivello. (In the 1986 film version, the dentist was memorably played by Steve Martin, opposite Rick Moranis’s Seymour.)
The veteran stage actor Chuck Cooper will voice the blood-thirsty plant, and Ellen Greene will play Audrey, the ditzy love interest, as she did in the original stage production and film.
My PAGEANT buddy, Dick Scanlan, will helm the Encores! production, which will play three performances on July 1-2.
Jake starred opposite Ruth Wilson in the well-received Broadway play “Constellations" this past season.
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