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Undergraduate
Research
Symposium
2022

Cailan Compierchio

McKay Keith

Look Out, Look Out, Look Out! Little Shop of Horrors as a Metaphor for Reaganomics

​Little Shop of Horrors was originally written as a critique of Reaganism and capitalism in the 1980s. Yet the film version of the musical seems to endorse these themes. In this visual guide, see how and why this happened.