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Bonus video! The Plant that ate (Off) Broadway (Patreon)

Published:

2024-06-23 16:00:13

Edited:

2026-02-10 21:47:19

Imported:

2026-06

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Hello there!

For this week's bonus video, we're heading back in time to a scrappy little off-off Broadway theater where a frustrated lyricist named Howard Ashman has decided he's going to make a musical out of the weirdest material imaginable: A schlocky B-movie about a killer plant from space. It seemed like a terrible idea, but it wound up being a success beyond what anyone could have imagined -- and I want to show you some of the fun behind-the-scenes making-of materials I've gathered, particularly as pertains to the building of that giant plant puppet. (And why Lucille Ball wound up briefly inside it.)

Backup link to the video: https://youtu.be/gjxhLsdSMEQ

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Bonus video! The Plant that ate (Off) Broadway

Hello there! For this week's bonus video, we're heading back in time to a scrappy little off-off Broadway theater where a frustrated lyricist named Howard Ashman has decided he's going to make a musical out of the weirdest material imaginable: A schlocky B-movie about a killer plant from space. It seemed like a terrible idea, but it wound up being a success beyond what anyone could have imagined -- and I want to show you some of the fun behind-the-scenes making-of materials I've gathered, particularly as pertains to the building of that giant plant puppet. (And why Lucille Ball wound up briefly inside it.)