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	Me and My Girl Reviewed October 19th, 2010 By Laura & Mike Clark • Oct 27th, 2010 • Me and My Girl by L. Arthur Rose and Douglas Furber Me and My Girl is a musical with book and lyrics by L. Arthur Rose and Douglas Furber. Similar to My Fair Lady, Me and My Girl tells the story of a cockney lad who suddenly inherits an earldom with all the trimmings. He must give up his ties to his old life, which include his girlfriend, to learn how to become a refined gentleman. This is a funny, lighthearted comedy with the right touch of song and dance to make you smile. This is a fun, upbeat show appropriate for the whole family. Review the full review here 'Little Shop of Horrors' is a show that grows on you  Review the full review here Curtain Calls, Maggie Lawrence, Theater Columnist Published: August 13, 2009 She can bring you wealth, fame, and the love of the one you adore. All it costs is a little (OK, maybe a lot) of your blood. Or at least someone’s blood. She’s Audrey II and she’s the potted sensation of Mr. Mushnik’s skid row florist shop, the result of an ill-advised purchase by Seymour, the shop clerk. Orders are pouring in, bodies are starting to disappear, and Audrey is getting bigger, hungrier, and more demanding every day.  Something extra-terrestrial is afoot. Where oh where will it all end? Who will save us? Some plays are sublime and some merely ridiculous, but “Little Shop of Horrors,” when done satisfactorily, is sublimely ridiculous. As a musical (aren’t most over-the-top spoofs musicals?) it puts down roots in the fertile garden of 1950s science fiction and shoo-bop romance. First a 1960 underground comic-horror seedling, it took on a life of its own. Growing into an off-Broadway sensation, “Little Shop…” devoured a Drama Critics Circle Award and then a Drama Desk Award before blossoming into a 1986 film that feasted on the country’s appetite for mad camp. This perennial favorite produces hundreds of shoots which appear on local and regional stages every year. Directed by Hans Bachmann, the “Little Shop…” at Lazy Susan turns its intimate space into a virtue, with front row patrons almost in the lap of Audrey II. Especially strong casting choices abound, and while two of the roles are played by alternates, the ones reviewed are the ones that were playing on Saturday night. The trio of Chiffon (Janelle Delaney), Crystal (Dena Kolb), and Ronnette (Christina Sanchez) plays a sort of Fifties Greek chorus — introducing action, commenting in song, and interacting with the scenes. These ladies have supreme harmonizing skills and are a delight to listen to together or singly.  Margaret Lawrence is a member of the American Theatre Critics Association. She teaches drama and English at CCHS. Want to go? What: “Little Shop of Horrors” Where: Lazy Susan Dinner Theatre, Woodbridge, Va. Call: (703) 550-7384 or (703) 494-6311 Playing through Sept. 27