Little Shop of Horrors

“Audrey’s scenes with her boyfriend, the sadistic dentist Orin Scrivello, are truly frightening rather than comic book funny. Luckily, Bruce Warren plays Orin (and every other single supporting role) with evident relish, whipping about the stage like a demented character from a Looney Tunes cartoon.”

-Len Fonte, Syracuse.com

“There are at least eight other human characters in the action, all played by the protean Bruce Warren. A graduate of Ithaca College, Warren’s been a star character player at Auburn’s Merry-Go-Round Playhouse for many summers. Not incidentally... director Waldman knew she had the right man with a goatee and a distinctive silhouette who could still look entirely different at each appearance.”

-James MacKillop, Syracuse New Times

“Bruce Warren is a whirling dervish in a half dozen character roles, including the creepy, sadist Orin Scrivello who keeps Audrey under his thumb. Sniffing nitrous oxide, he oils his way across the stage with a savage glee.”

-Ross Haarstad, Ithaca Times

“Of all Warren’s different characters, Orin Scrivello, a sadistic dentist, is the most outrageous -- rivaling Audrey II herself in comic fiendishness. With his motorcycle jacket, tough-guy swagger and maniacal laugh, Warren conflates nightmarish extremes of abusive boyfriend and torture-happy dentist in a sinister comic style, replete with bouts of nitrous oxide highs and (gasp) sexual thrusts right into the audience. The showdown in the revolving dental chair with Seymour mounted by a gas-happy Scrivello is this production’s comic pièce-de-resistance.”

-Barbara Adams, Ithaca Journal