When Ashman met Menken

Their working partnership before "Little Shop of Horrors"

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This week, The Broadway Maven looks at Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods and Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s Little Shop of Horrors.

• On Sunday, August 28 at Noon ET and Monday, August 29 at Noon and 7 pm ET there will be a FREE class on the fractured-fairy-tale mashup Into the Woods. Register here.

• On Thursday, September 1 at Noon and 7 pm ET we’ll examine the campy horror spoof Little Shop of Horrors. $5. Register here.

• This Weekly Blast includes:

A) an ESSAY about the origin of the Ashman-Menken partnership;

B) a YouTube GEM about the song “Moments in the Woods”;

C) a RANT about the movie musical 13, now playing on Netflix;

D) a Broadway Maven YouTube GEM comparing The Wizard of Oz and Star Wars;

E) a QUIZ about Into the Woods Ly…