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Ellen Greene Revisits Audrey Role as 'Little Shop of Horrors' Marks 40th Anniversary

Ellen Greene Revisits Audrey Role as 'Little Shop of Horrors' Marks 40th Anniversary

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August 14th, 2026

Ellen Greene Revisits Audrey Role as 'Little Shop of Horrors' Marks 40th Anniversary

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Ellen Green still possesses the formidable capacity to embody the role of Audrey with consummate perfection.

์—˜๋ Œ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์˜ค๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ผ๋Š” ๋ฐฐ์—ญ์„ ์™„๋ฒฝํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์†Œํ™”ํ•ด๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ์ง€๋‹ˆ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

During the conversation, she unconsciously deployed that distinctive vocal quality of hers.

๋Œ€ํ™” ์ค‘์— ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๊ทธ ํŠน์œ ์˜ ์Œ์„ฑ์„ ๋ฌด์˜์‹์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฌ์‚ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

That voiceโ€”marked by a subtle respiratory involvement, a faint fricative seepage into every syllable, an understated alveolar articulation, and a dense intermingling of New York regional colorโ€”elevated her to an instant cultural icon as the leading lady of 'Little Shop of Horrors.'

ํ˜ธํก๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ฏธ์„ธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ฐœ์ž…๋˜๊ณ , ์Œ์ ˆ๋งˆ๋‹ค ๊ฒฝ๋ฏธํ•œ ๋งˆ์ฐฐ์Œ์ด ์Šค๋ฉฐ๋“ค๋ฉฐ, ์„ค๋‹จ์Œ์ด ์€๊ทผํžˆ ๋ฐฐ์–ด ์žˆ๊ณ , ๋‰ด์š• ์ง€๋ฐฉ์ƒ‰์ด ๋†ํ›„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ˜ผ์žฌ๋œ ๊ทธ ์Œ์„ฑ์€ ๊ทธ๋…€๋ฅผ '๋ฆฌํ‹€ ์ƒต ์˜ค๋ธŒ ํ˜ธ๋Ÿฌ์Šค'์˜ ์—ฌ์ฃผ์ธ๊ณต์œผ๋กœ์„œ ์ฆ‰๊ฐ์ ์ธ ๋ฌธํ™”์  ์ƒ์ง•์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฉ์ƒ์‹œ์ผฐ๋‹ค.

It was by no means a vocal timbre she had deliberately contrived at the audition.

์˜ค๋””์…˜ ๋‹น์‹œ ๊ทธ๋…€๊ฐ€ ์˜๋„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์„ค์ •ํ•œ ์Œ์ƒ‰์€ ๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

It had erupted unconsciously from within her at that very moment, and it had since become fixed and perpetuated in that form.

๊ทธ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๋‚ด๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋ฌด์˜์‹์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ถ„์ถœ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ๊ณ , ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๊ณ ์ฐฉ๋˜์–ด ์ง€์†๋œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

"I had given no thought whatsoever to that aspect," Green, aged 75, declared in a recent press conference.

"๊ทธ ์ ์— ๊ด€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์ „ํ˜€ ์ˆ™๊ณ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค," 75์„ธ์˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ์€ ์ตœ๊ทผ ๊ธฐ์ž์™€์˜ ํšŒ๊ฒฌ์—์„œ ์ง„์ˆ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"It was a peculiar occurrence.

"๊ธฐ์ดํ•œ ์ผ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

I haven't the faintest inkling as to whence that half originated."

๊ทธ ์ ˆ๋ฐ˜์ด ์–ด๋””์„œ ๋น„๋กฏ๋˜์—ˆ๋Š”์ง€ ์ „ํ˜€ ์ง์ž‘์กฐ์ฐจ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

Throughout his vast and variegated career spanning both stage and screen, Audrey will likely be remembered as Green's most iconic role.

๊ทธ์˜ ๋ฐฉ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ค์ฑ„๋กœ์šด ๋ฌด๋Œ€ ๋ฐ ์Šคํฌ๋ฆฐ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ, ์˜ค๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์•„๋งˆ๋„ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ƒ์ง•์ ์ธ ๋ฐฐ์—ญ์œผ๋กœ ํšŒ์ž๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

The tragicomic slum-dwelling shopgirl she portrayed struck a profound chord with audiences on the Off-Broadway stage in 1982, and was subsequently reprised on the silver screen in Frank Oz's 1986 film adaptation, where she shared the screen with Rick Moranis.

๊ทธ๋…€๊ฐ€ ์—ฐ๊ธฐํ•œ ๋น„๊ทน์ ์ด๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ํฌ๊ทน์ ์ธ ๋นˆ๋ฏผ๊ฐ€ ์‡ผํ•‘๊ฑธ์€ 1982๋…„ ์˜คํ”„๋ธŒ๋กœ๋“œ์›จ์ด ๋ฌด๋Œ€์—์„œ ๊ด€๊ฐ๋“ค์˜ ์‹ฌ๊ธˆ์„ ์šธ๋ ธ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ดํ›„ ํ”„๋žญํฌ ์˜ค์ฆˆ๊ฐ€ ์—ฐ์ถœํ•œ 1986๋…„ ์˜ํ™”์—์„œ ๋ฆญ ๋ชจ๋ผ๋‹ˆ์Šค์™€ ํ˜ธํก์„ ๋งž์ถ”๋ฉฐ ์Šคํฌ๋ฆฐ์— ์žฌํ˜„๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

The addictive musical about that carnivorous plant never enjoys its popularity for long.

๊ทธ ์œก์‹์„ฑ ์‹๋ฌผ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ์ค‘๋…์„ฑ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฎค์ง€์ปฌ์€ ๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ๊ทธ ์ธ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์˜ค๋ž˜ ๋ˆ„๋ฆฌ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ๋‹ค.

Over the years, she has been repeatedly called upon for encores.

์ˆ˜๋…„์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์•™์ฝ”๋ฅด ์š”์ฒญ์„ ๋ฐ›๊ณค ํ•œ๋‹ค.

In 2015, she reprised the role in three sold-out performances with Jake Gyllenhaal as Seymour.

2015๋…„์—๋Š” ์ œ์ดํฌ ์งˆ๋ Œํ• ์ด ์‹œ๋ชจ์–ด ์—ญ์„ ๋งก์€ ์„ธ ์ฐจ๋ก€์˜ ๋งค์ง„ ๊ณต์—ฐ์—์„œ ๊ทธ ์—ญํ• ์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์†Œํ™”ํ•ด ๋ƒˆ๋‹ค.

Commencing this weekend, she is slated to traverse the nation over the ensuing months for the fortieth-anniversary commemorative screenings, embarking from Seattle on August 18th and culminating in Atlanta on November 13th.

์ด๋ฒˆ ์ฃผ๋ง์„ ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ, ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ํ–ฅํ›„ ์ˆ˜๊ฐœ์›”์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์ฐฝ๋ฆฝ 40์ฃผ๋…„ ๊ธฐ๋… ์ƒ์˜ํšŒ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•˜์—ฌ ์‹œ์• ํ‹€(8์›” 18์ผ)์—์„œ ์ถœ๋ฐœํ•˜์—ฌ ์• ํ‹€๋žœํƒ€(11์›” 13์ผ)์— ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ „๊ตญ ๊ฐ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ˆœํšŒํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๋‹ค.

Moreover, the rendition of 'Somewhere That's Green' is likewise incorporated into the itinerary.

๋˜ํ•œ, 'Somewhere That's Green' ๊ณต์—ฐ ์—ญ์‹œ ์ผ์ •์— ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋‹ค.

This ballad, which embodies the agony of yearning, transcends its status as a mere showstopper, holding profound personal significance for Greene.

๊ฐˆ๋ง์˜ ๊ณ ํ†ต์„ ์ฒดํ˜„ํ•œ ์ด ๋ฐœ๋ผ๋“œ๋Š” ๋‹จ์ง€ ๋Œ€ํ˜• ์‡ผ์Šคํ† ํผ๋กœ์„œ์˜ ์œ„์ƒ์— ๊ทธ์น˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ์—๊ฒŒ ์‹ฌ์˜คํ•œ ๊ฐœ์ธ์  ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ์ง€๋‹Œ๋‹ค.

She vividly recalls the days when, standing in a serpentine queue for unemployment benefits, she first encountered the song and found herself inadvertently humming along in quiet harmony.

๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์‹ค์—…๊ธ‰์—ฌ ์ˆ˜๊ธ‰์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์žฅ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ์ด๋ฃฌ ๋Œ€๊ธฐ์—ด์— ์„ฐ๋˜ ๊ทธ ์‹œ์ ˆ, ์ด ๊ณก์„ ์ฒ˜์Œ ์ ‘ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋ฌด์‹ฌ์ฝ” ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ํ™”์Œ์„ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋ถˆ๋ €๋˜ ๊ธฐ์–ต์„ ๋˜๋ ท์ด ํšŒ์ƒํ•œ๋‹ค.

"I instinctively discerned that within it lay an Audrey awaiting her emergence," Green remarked.

"๊ทธ ์•ˆ์—์„œ ํƒœ์–ด๋‚˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์˜ค๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์กด์žฌํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ์ €๋Š” ๋ณธ๋Šฅ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ†ต์ฐฐํ•˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค," ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ์€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

She poured that emotion into her audition, and while composer Alan Menken was wholly absorbed in his piano accompaniment, lyricist Howard Ashman watched in breathless silence.

๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๊ทธ ๊ฐ์ •์„ ์˜ค๋””์…˜์— ๋‹ด์•„๋‚ด์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ž‘๊ณก๊ฐ€ ์•จ๋Ÿฐ ๋ฉ˜์ผ„์ด ํ”ผ์•„๋…ธ ์—ฐ์ฃผ์— ๋ชฐ์ž…ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ, ์ž‘์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ํ•˜์›Œ๋“œ ์• ์‰ฌ๋จผ์ด ์ˆจ์ฃฝ์—ฌ ์ง€์ผœ๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค.

As her song drew to a close, tears welled up copiously in the eyes of everyone present.

๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๋…ธ๋ž˜๊ฐ€ ๋๋‚˜์ž, ์ž๋ฆฌํ•œ ๋ชจ๋‘์˜ ๋ˆˆ๊ฐ€์—๋Š” ๋ˆˆ๋ฌผ์ด ํฅ๊ฑดํžˆ ๋งบํ˜€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Securing the role was by no means an immediate triumph.

๊ทธ ์—ญํ• ์„ ํš๋“ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ์ฆ‰๊ฐ์ ์ธ ๋Œ€๋ฐ•์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

When she first set foot on the stage at the WPA Theatre in New York, she commanded a remuneration of fifty dollars per week throughout a month of rehearsals and a two-month Off-Broadway run.

๋‰ด์š•์˜ WPA ๊ทน์žฅ์—์„œ ์ฒซ๋ฐœ์„ ๋‚ด๋””๋Ž ์„ ๋•Œ, ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ํ•œ ๋‹ฌ๊ฐ„์˜ ๋ฆฌํ—ˆ์„ค๊ณผ ๋‘ ๋‹ฌ๊ฐ„์˜ ์˜คํ”„๋ธŒ๋กœ๋“œ์›จ์ด ๊ณต์—ฐ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ์ฃผ๋‹น 50๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ผ๋Š” ๋ณด์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์•˜๋‹ค.

Yet it proved to be a resounding success.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋Œ€์„ฑ๊ณต์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

On one particular evening, Steve Martinโ€”destined to portray Audrey's abusive dentist boyfriend in the film adaptationโ€”came to see the performance, accompanied by Mary Tyler Moore.

์–ด๋А ๋‚  ๋ฐค, ์˜ํ™”์—์„œ ์˜ค๋“œ๋ฆฌ์˜ ํญ๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ์น˜๊ณผ์˜์‚ฌ ๋‚จ์ž์นœ๊ตฌ ์—ญ์„ ๋งก๊ฒŒ ๋  ์Šคํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ๋งˆํ‹ด์ด ๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ ํƒ€์ผ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฌด์–ด์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ทธ ๊ณต์—ฐ์„ ๊ด€๋žŒํ•˜๋Ÿฌ ์˜ค๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

On stage, she perched atop a garbage can and belted out 'Somewhere That's Green.'

๋ฌด๋Œ€ ์œ„์—์„œ ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์“ฐ๋ ˆ๊ธฐํ†ต์— ๊ฑธํ„ฐ์•‰์•„ 'Somewhere That's Green'์„ ์—ด์ฐฝํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

For the film, Ashman constructed the number in the manner of the Leslie Caron and Cyd Charisse pieces they both cherished, wherein the character, upon entering the room, undergoes a complete sartorial metamorphosis for the song.

์˜ํ™”๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ์• ์‰ฌ๋จผ์€ ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ๊ณตํžˆ ์• ํ˜ธํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋ ˆ์Šฌ๋ฆฌ ์บ๋Ÿฐ๊ณผ ์‹œ๋“œ ์ƒค๋ฆฌ์Šค์˜ ๋„˜๋ฒ„์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ, ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด์„œ์ž๋งˆ์ž ๋…ธ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ „ํ˜€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์˜์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณ€๋ชจํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ํ•ด๋‹น ๋„˜๋ฒ„๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"Do you presume to conclude that I would inevitably be overwhelmed with gratitude and elation merely because he deigned to bestow this gift upon me?" she intoned with unruffled composure.

"๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์—๊ฒŒ ์ด ์„ ๋ฌผ์„ ์ˆ˜์—ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ด์œ ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋ฌด์กฐ๊ฑด ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์— ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์ณ ๊ธฐ๋ปํ–ˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋‹จ์ • ์ง€์„ ์…ˆ์ด๋ƒ," ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋‹ด๋‹ดํžˆ ์Š์กฐ๋ ธ๋‹ค.

"On the contrary, I promptly telephoned him and, dissolving into convulsive sobs, bellowed thus:

"์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ทธ์—๊ฒŒ ์ฆ‰์‹œ ์ „ํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ฑธ์–ด ์˜ค์—ด์„ ์Ÿ์•„๋‚ด๋ฉฐ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๊ณ ํ•จ์ณค์ง€.

Now, heed these very words: 'Where on earth is my refuse disposal receptacle?'"

์ž, ์ด ๋ง์„ ๋“ค์–ด ๋ณด์•„๋ผ, '๋‚ด ํ๊ธฐ๋ฌผ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•จ์€ ๋Œ€์ฒด ์–ด๋””์— ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋ƒ?'"

Ashman, as she recalled, had assured her that whenever the cameras caught her still residing in the slums, she would merely smile and elicit the same reaction.

์• ์‰ฌ๋จผ์€ ๊ทธ๋…€๊ฐ€ ํšŒ์ƒํ•˜๊ธธ, ์นด๋ฉ”๋ผ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋…€๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋นˆ๋ฏผ๊ฐ€์— ๋จธ๋ฌผ๋Ÿฌ ์žˆ์Œ์„ ํฌ์ฐฉํ•  ๋•Œ๋ฉด ๊ทธ์ € ๋ฏธ์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ง€์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋™์ผํ•œ ๋ฐ˜์‘์„ ์ด๋Œ์–ด ๋‚ผ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋…€๋ฅผ ์•ˆ์‹ฌ์‹œ์ผฐ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ „ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Paradoxically, this entire affair transpired prior to her official casting in the film.

์—ญ์„ค์ ์ด๊ฒŒ๋„, ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ์‚ฌํƒœ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋…€๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ ์˜ํ™”์— ๊ณต์‹์ ์œผ๋กœ ์บ์ŠคํŒ…๋˜๊ธฐ ์ด์ „์— ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•œ ์ผ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

The film's production process was a relentless succession of tribulations.

์˜ํ™”์˜ ์ œ์ž‘ ๊ณผ์ •์€ ๊ธฐ๋‚˜๊ธด ์—ญ๊ฒฝ์˜ ์—ฐ์†์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Initially, John Landis was at the helm, but after Martin Scorsese briefly occupied the role, the onerous responsibility was ultimately delegated to Oz.

์ดˆ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์กด ๋žœ๋””์Šค๊ฐ€ ์—ฐ์ถœ์„ ๋งก์•˜์œผ๋‚˜, ๋งˆํ‹ด ์Šค์ฝ”์„ธ์ด์ง€๊ฐ€ ์ž ์‹œ ๊ทธ ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์ณ ๊ฐ„ ๋’ค, ์ตœ์ข…์ ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ค์ฆˆ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ทธ ์ค‘์ฑ…์ด ์œ„์ž„๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Greene's involvement, too, was by no means a foregone conclusion.

๊ทธ๋ฆฐ์˜ ์ฐธ์—ฌ ์—ญ์‹œ ๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ํ™•์ •์ ์ด์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Producer David Geffen had in mind more illustrious figures, such as Cyndi Lauper.

์ œ์ž‘์ž ๋ฐ์ด๋น„๋“œ ๊ฒŒํŽœ์€ ์‹ ๋”” ๋กœํผ์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ €๋ช…ํ•œ ์ธ๋ฌผ๋“ค์„ ์—ผ๋‘์— ๋‘๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

"I had not the faintest inkling that I would be entrusted with that film," Green solemnly averred.

"์ œ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ ์˜ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋งก๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ธก์€ ์ „ํ˜€ ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค," ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ์€ ์—„์ˆ™ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ง„์ˆ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Yet the notion that anyone else could have replicated such a singularly distinctive performance is scarcely conceivable.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊ทธํ† ๋ก ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํƒ€์ธ์ด ์žฌํ˜„ํ•ด๋ƒˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ƒ์ƒ์€ ์ข€์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค.

Audiences at the preview screenings, so fervently enamored of her portrayal of Audrey, categorically repudiated the denouement that culminated in her demise.

์‹œ์‚ฌํšŒ์— ์ฐธ์„ํ•œ ๊ด€๊ฐ๋“ค์€ ๊ทธ๋…€๊ฐ€ ์—ฐ๊ธฐํ•œ ์˜ค๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์—ด๋ ฌํžˆ ์• ํ˜ธํ•œ ๋‚˜๋จธ์ง€, ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์ฃฝ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๊ท€๊ฒฐ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๋ง์„ ์ „๋ฉด์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฉํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

"Personally, I find the death scene quite compelling," Green remarked.

"๊ฐœ์ธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ทธ ์ฃฝ์Œ์˜ ์žฅ๋ฉด์ด ๋งˆ์Œ์— ๋“ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค," ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ์ด ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"Yet I had a vague inkling all along, for Frank had elevated Audrey to a far more protagonist-like stature within the film."

"ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์–ด๋ ดํ’‹์ด ์ง์ž‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”. ํ”„๋žญํฌ๊ฐ€ ์˜ํ™” ์†์—์„œ ์˜ค๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋”์šฑ ์ฃผ์ธ๊ณต๋‹ค์šด ์œ„์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ํ˜•์ƒํ™”ํ–ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด์ฃ ."

She spoke in the manner of Audrey, recounting how he had excised lines from the play such as "If you live in a slum, you won't meet a good man."

๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์˜ค๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋งํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์—ฐ๊ทน์—์„œ "๋นˆ๋ฏผ๊ฐ€์— ์‚ด๋ฉด ์ข‹์€ ๋‚จ์ž๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋‚˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•ด"์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋Œ€์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์‚ญ์ œํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ „ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

She deemed that this delineated her in a somewhat divergent light.

๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ž์‹ ์„ ๋‹ค์†Œ ์ƒ์ดํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ทœ์ •ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์—ฌ๊ฒผ๋‹ค.

Then, as the final act unfolds, the line "When I die, and I shall die soon" emergesโ€”uttered toward the audience on stage, yet whispered to Seymour in the film.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ข…๋ง‰์— ์ด๋ฅด๋Ÿฌ "๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ฃฝ์„ ๋•Œ, ๊ณง ์ฃฝ์„ ํ„ฐ์ด๋‹ˆ"๋ผ๋Š” ๋Œ€์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋ฌด๋Œ€ ์œ„์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ด€๊ฐ์„ ํ–ฅํ•ด ๋ฐœํ™”๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋‚˜ ์˜ํ™”์—์„œ๋Š” ์‹œ๋ชจ์–ด์—๊ฒŒ ์†์‚ญ์—ฌ์ง„๋‹ค.

This engenders a far more intimate and earnest tenor.

์ด๋Š” ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ๋‚ด๋ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ง„์ง€ํ•œ ์–ด์กฐ๋ฅผ ์ž์•„๋‚ธ๋‹ค.

"Frank attributes it to our not having taken a curtain call as we did in the play.

"ํ”„๋žญํฌ๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์—ฐ๊ทน์—์„œ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ปคํŠผ์ฝœ์„ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

I, however, perceive it as stemming from the line's susceptibility to two divergent interpretations.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ €๋Š” ๊ทธ ๋Œ€์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ƒ์ดํ•œ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ํ•ด์„๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

One is so ludicrous that it vindicates my well-being, while the other is both veracious and profoundly moving," she remarked.

ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ์šฐ์Šค๊ฝ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์›Œ์„œ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ž…์ฆํ•˜๊ณ , ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ์ง„์‹ค๋˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ๋™์ ์ด์ฃ ,"๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

In the final analysis, Oz underwent a change of heart, thereby arriving at the filming of a more gratifying denouement.

์˜ค์ฆˆ๋Š” ์ข…๊ตญ์— ์ด๋ฅด๋Ÿฌ ์‹ฌ๊ฒฝ์˜ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ฐํ–‰ํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ๋ณด๋‹ค ํก์กฑํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๋ง์„ ์ดฌ์˜ํ•˜๊ธฐ์— ์ด๋ฅด๋ €๋‹ค.

Green now aesthetically cherishes the very coexistence of those two endingsโ€”the original being preserved in the director's cut.

์ด์ œ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ์€ ๊ทธ ๋‘ ๊ฒฐ๋ง(์›๋ณธ์€ ๊ฐ๋…ํŒ์— ์ˆ˜๋ก๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Œ)์ด ๊ณต์กดํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค ์ž์ฒด๋ฅผ ์‹ฌ๋ฏธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์• ํ˜ธํ•œ๋‹ค.

To recall 'Little Shop' is, in itself, a rite of remembrance for Ashman, who succumbed to AIDS-related complications in 1991.

'๋ฆฌํ‹€ ์ƒต'์„ ํšŒ์ƒํ•˜๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„๋Š” ๊ณง 1991๋…„ ์—์ด์ฆˆ ๊ด€๋ จ ํ•ฉ๋ณ‘์ฆ์œผ๋กœ ์„ธ์ƒ์„ ๋– ๋‚œ ์• ์‰ฌ๋จผ์„ ์ถ”๋ชจํ•˜๋Š” ์˜์‹์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๋‹ค.

Their friendship was replete with laughter, song, and adventure, and it was he who first escorted her on a journey to Paris.

๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์šฐ์ •์€ ์›ƒ์Œ๊ณผ ๋…ธ๋ž˜, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ชจํ—˜์œผ๋กœ ์ถฉ๋งŒํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋…€๋ฅผ ์ตœ์ดˆ๋กœ ํŒŒ๋ฆฌ ์—ฌํ–‰์— ๋™ํ–‰์‹œํ‚ค๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"Upon entering our abode, he, having discerned my penchant for bubble baths, proceeded to draw one for me.

"์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ฑฐ์ฒ˜๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด์„œ์ž, ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋ฒ„๋ธ”๋ฐฐ์Šค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์• ์ •์„ ์ง€๋‹ˆ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Œ์„ ๊ฐ„ํŒŒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ธฐ์— ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ‹€์–ด์ฃผ์—ˆ์ง€์š”.

I immersed myself in the tub, and he, proffering champagne and caviar, set adrift the melodies of Piaf," she reminisced.

๋‚˜๋Š” ์š•์กฐ์— ๋ชธ์„ ๋‹ด๊ฐ”๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ƒดํŽ˜์ธ๊ณผ ์บ๋น„์–ด๋ฅผ ๊ฑด๋„ค์ฃผ๋ฉฐ ํ”ผ์•„ํ”„์˜ ์„ ์œจ์„ ํ˜๋ ค๋ณด๋ƒˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค," ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ํšŒ๊ณ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"To be sure, we each had our own chambers, yet given the profound intimacy we shared, what significance did that hold?

"๋ฌผ๋ก  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฐ์ž์˜ ๋ฐฉ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธํ† ๋ก ๋ฐ€์ ‘ํ•œ ์‚ฌ์ด์˜€์œผ๋‹ˆ ๊ทธ์ฏค์ด์•ผ ๋ฌด์Šจ ๋Œ€์ˆ˜์˜€๊ฒ ์–ด์š”?

Moreover, having spent my life entrenched in the theatrical world, I was, from the outset, utterly devoid of any sense of shame."

๊ฒŒ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜๋Š” ์—ฐ๊ทน๊ณ„์—์„œ ๋ชธ๋‹ด์•„ ์˜จ ํ„ฐ๋ผ ์ˆ˜์น˜์‹ฌ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์• ์ดˆ์— ์ง€๋‹ˆ์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

He also took exceptional care of her.

๊ทธ๋Š” ๋˜ํ•œ ๊ทธ๋…€๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๋ณ„ํžˆ ๋ณด์‚ดํˆ๋‹ค.

When drawing up the contract for the stage production of 'Little Shop,' her sole consideration was ensuring that a London run was included.

'๋ฆฌํ‹€ ์ƒต' ๋ฌด๋Œ€ ๊ณต์—ฐ ๊ณ„์•ฝ์„œ๋ฅผ ์ž‘์„ฑํ•  ๋‹น์‹œ, ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋Ÿฐ๋˜ ๊ณต์—ฐ์„ ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ํฌํ•จ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋งŒ ์—ผ๋‘์— ๋‘์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Unbeknownst to her, Ashman had ceded her 0.5% of the profits.

๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์•Œ์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์• ์‰ฌ๋จผ์€ ๊ทธ๋…€์—๊ฒŒ ์ˆ˜์ต์˜ 0.5%๋ฅผ ์–‘์—ฌํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

"Because I created Audrey," she remarked.

"์ œ๊ฐ€ ์˜ค๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์กฐํ–ˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ์š”," ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"Show them how generous and kind he was, and how deeply he loved me," she remarked.

"๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๊ด€๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์นœ์ ˆํ–ˆ๋Š”์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ–ˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค˜์š”," ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"Everyone adores Audrey.

"๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ์˜ค๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•ด์š”.

That is because weโ€”that is to say, Iโ€”loved her first.

์™œ๋ƒํ•˜๋ฉด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ, ์ฆ‰ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋…€๋ฅผ ๋จผ์ € ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ–ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด์—์š”.

And everyone cherishes 'Little Shop'.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ '๋ฆฌํ‹€ ์ƒต'์„ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•ด์š”.

It is because we poured so much love into it...

์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์„ ์Ÿ์•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด์—์š”...

I am profoundly grateful and humbled.

๋‚˜๋Š” ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฒธ์†ํ•ด์š”.

For by loving 'Little Shop,' they keep it alive, and they keep Howard Ashman alive."

๊ทธ๋“ค์ด '๋ฆฌํ‹€ ์ƒต'์„ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ์‚ด์•„์žˆ๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๊ณ , ํ•˜์›Œ๋“œ ์• ์‰ฌ๋จผ์„ ์‚ด์•„์žˆ๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด์—์š”."

August 14th, 2026

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์—๋ฏธ์ƒ์ด ์ž„๋ฐ•ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ, '๋” ํ”ผํŠธ'๋Š” ์žฌ์—ฐ์„ ๊ฒจ๋ƒฅํ•˜๊ณ  '์œ„๋„์šฐ์Šค ๋ฒ ์ด'๋Š” ์„œ์‚ฌ์  ํŒŒ๋„๋ฅผ ์ผ์œผํ‚ฌ ํƒœ์„ธ๋‹ค

C2Sep 14
Bob Mackie, the designer who styled Cher and Marilyn and defined '70s glamour, dies at 87

Bob Mackie, the designer who styled Cher and Marilyn and defined '70s glamour, dies at 87

๋ฐฅ ๋งคํ‚ค, ์…ฐ์–ด์™€ ๋งˆ๋ฆด๋ฆฐ์„ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ๋งํ•˜๊ณ  70๋…„๋Œ€ ๊ธ€๋ž˜๋จธ๋ฅผ ์ •์˜ํ•œ ์Šคํƒ€๋“ค์˜ ๋””์ž์ด๋„ˆ, 87์„ธ๋กœ ๋ณ„์„ธ

C2Sep 14
Movie Review: 'Practical Magic 2' Should Have Left the Original's Spellbook Untouched

Movie Review: 'Practical Magic 2' Should Have Left the Original's Spellbook Untouched

์˜ํ™” ๋ฆฌ๋ทฐ: 'ํ”„๋ž™ํ‹ฐ์ปฌ ๋งค์ง 2'๋Š” ์›์ž‘์˜ ๋งˆ๋ฒ•์„œ๋ฅผ ๋ฏธ๋™๋„ ์—†์ด ๋ฐฉ์น˜ํ–ˆ์–ด์•ผ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค

C2Sep 11
Thieves stole four Renoir works from a French museum; two remain unaccounted for.

Thieves stole four Renoir works from a French museum; two remain unaccounted for.

Thieves stole four Renoir works from a French museum; two remain unaccounted for.

C2Sep 8