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PATRICK MARMION reviews Spend Spend Spend: Car-crash life of pools winner Viv hits the jackpot (almost)
Before you get any deeper into the buyers' remorse of the January sales, you may like to check out the musical cautionary tale Spend Spend Spend at Manchester's Royal Exchange.
And yet it holds a morbid fascination, as our unlikely hero — goofy flower shop assistant Seymour — saves his beloved colleague Audrey by feeding her abusive dentist boyfriend to an overgrown Venus flytrap. But Alan Menken’s score also delights as a twinkle-toed homage to Motown; while Howard Ashman’s lyrics let us have a good chuckle in songs like Skid Row, Somewhere That’s Green, and the big cheesy romantic number Suddenly, Seymour. The show ends on a note of high drama, as a sphere of bright light — the comet — descends, and Pierre falls in love, whetting our appetites for the next juicy chapter.
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