Girl meets boy. Boy meets plant. Plant … well, eats everyone.
What’s the most unique take on the Faustian legend? How about an all-singing, all-dancing musical featuring a man-eating plant? When the soon-to-be-legendary team of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken (they would go on to pen Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, and other Oscar winners), chose a little-known 1960 black-and-white film as the basis of a musical, they would set a new standard for tongue-in-cheek theater.