How many hit musicals are based on films that were shot in two days at a budget of $30,000? The answer is one: Little Shop of Horrors. This timely and authoritative book looks at the creation of the musical, analyzing its place in the contemporary musical theatre canon through to the various afterlives and wider cultural context, asking the question why this unlikely combination of blood, annihilation, and catchy tunes has resonated with audiences from the 1980s to the present day.
