Flowers spilled over a table and onto the floor at the J.J. Ferrara Center in Hazleton earlier this week, a young fellow picked his way through them carrying something that looked like part of huge Venus flytrap, and two cast members crouched by garbage cans, the better to represent the Skid Row ambience of Mr. Mushnik’s flower shop.
One look at that scene tells you the folks at Pennsylvania Theatre of Performing Arts are about to present “Little Shop of Horrors,” and if you stick around you’ll meet Mr. Mushnik’s employees — Seymour and Audrey.
“Seymour is kind of a classical, endearing dork,” said Joshua Plesce of Berwick, who will play that part in the show, set for Nov. 1 through Nov. 10. “He’s got everything you can picture for this archetype — the button-down shirt, the nerdy glasses, the squeaky voice.”…