He voiced Audrey II, the " street-smart, funky, conniving " talking killer plant which is an " anthropomorphic cross between a Venus flytrap and an avocado ", in the original off-Broadway production of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's " black-comedy musical " Little Shop of Horrors from 1982.

The first two notes of Alan Menken's melody span a musical interval of a major sixth.

Menken's Sister Act the Musical was produced in London, 2009, and opened on Broadway in Spring 2011.

Howard Ashman was going to write songs for this movie as soon as he was finished with Aladdin, but he died during production of Aladdin, thus marking this being the first Disney movie with Alan Menken's music but without songs by Ashman.

Menken's first major professional work was with Ashman for the Off-Broadway 1979 WPA Theatre production of the play God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, an adaptation of a Kurt Vonnegut novel.

In 1992, the WPA Theatre produced Menken's Weird Romance, also with lyrics also by Spencer.

" Colors of the Wind " won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 68th Academy Awards in 1995, becoming composer Alan Menken's fourth win in the category.

As drawn, Crashcup somewhat resembled Shepard Menken's physical appearance.

She also played Audrey in Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's Little Shop of Horrors.

In 1994 Brooks paid homage to one of his musical influences when he appeared on the hard rock compilation Kiss My Ass: Classic Kiss Regrooved, a collection of Kiss cover songs by popular artists from all genres.

In 1994, he made his Broadway debut, as a replacement cast member playing the Devil in a revival of the baseball musical, Damn Yankees, choreographed by future film director Rob Marshall ( Chicago ).

Associated with the Fête de la Musique, created by Jack Lang in Paris in 1981 to celebrate music and musicians, the Festa was incorporated into the Italian Minister of Culture's agenda in 1994, and has since spread across Italy as well as the world, encouraging the cooperation and musical exchanges between the participating cities.

In 1994, Ono produced her own musical entitled New York Rock, featuring Broadway renditions of her songs.

Brooks, who is also executive producer of The Simpsons, had cast Smith in his 1994 film I'll Do Anything ( in one of the film's musical numbers ) but her part was cut.

Introduced in 1994 in a series of publications in Computer Music Journal from MIT Press, ZIPI was intended as the next-generation transport protocol for digital musical instruments, designed with compliance to OSI model.

* Mine !, a 1994 album released by musical duo Trout Fishing in America

* Sunset Boulevard ( Norma Desmond, Broadway, November 1994 ), Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on the classic 1950 motion picture Sunset Boulevard

* Revivals: Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller in 1999 became the first show ( play or musical ) to win as Best Production in four different years, Best play at the 1949 awards, Best Revival at the 1984 awards ( before the Best Revival award was split into two categories for Play and Musical in 1994 ), and Best Revival of a Play at the 1999 and 2012 awards.

* Sherman Feller ( 1918 – 1994 ), American musical composer and radio personality

The musical score for " Cape Feare " earned Clausen an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Dramatic Underscore – Series in 1994.

* The Dreyfus Trilogy by George Whyte ( in collaboration with Luciano Berio, Jost Meier and Alfred Schnittke ) comprising the opera Dreyfus-Die Affäre ( Deutsche Oper Berlin, 8 May 1994 ; Theater Basle, 16 October 1004 ; The Dreyfus Affair New York City Opera, April 1996 ); the dance drama Dreyfus-J ' accuse ( Oper der Stadt Bonn, 4 September 1994 ) and the musical satire Rage et Outrage ( Arte, April 1994 ; Zorn und Schande, Arte 1994 ; Rage and Outrage Channel 4, May 1994.

* Rage and Outrage – a musical satire by George R. Whyte, broadcast on Arte and Channel 4, May 1994.

A series of musical mystery videos called The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley premiered in 1994 and continued through 1997.

Tom Stoppard's Travesties, with Anthony Sher was next, and in 1994 the musical She Loves Me played, with Ruthie Henshall and John Gordon Sinclair.

Crumb has frequently drawn comics about his musical interests in blues, country, bluegrass, cajun, French Bal-musette, jazz, big band and swing music from the 1920s and 30's, and they also heavily influenced the soundtrack choices for his band mate Zwigoff's 1994 Crumb documentary.

Having already appeared as a musical guest and then host of Saturday Night Live, McKean joined the cast in 1994 and remained a cast member until 1995.

Page and Plant became a full-fledged performing act from 1994 through 1998, releasing the Unledded album in 1994 and following with an enormously successful tour in 1995: Fourteen years of speculation from their fans and occasional sniping between the two former members ended when Jimmy Page and Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin reconvened their former musical partnership to produce No Quarter.

First staged in 1994, it features plays, pantomimes, comedy evenings, musical performances, and a keenly-contested bake-off.

In 1994, Pryce portrayed Fagin in a revival of the musical Oliver !, and would star the following year alongside Emma Thompson in the film Carrington, which centres on a platonic relationship between gay writer Lytton Strachey and painter Dora Carrington.

In a landmark case, the European Court of Justice ( ECJ ) ruled on 5 July 1994 against the British practice of importing produce from northern Cyprus based on certificates of origin and phytosanitary certificates granted by the de facto authorities.

The popularity of Doom led to the development of a sequel, Doom II: Hell on Earth ( 1994 ), as well as expansion packs and alternate versions based on the same game engine, including The Ultimate Doom ( 1995 ), Final Doom ( 1996 ), and Doom 64 ( 1997 ).

In 2007, Echols petitioned for a retrial based on a statute permitting post-conviction testing of DNA evidence due to technological advances made since 1994 which might provide exoneration for the wrongfully convicted.

The movie, Bandit Queen, released in 1994, was based on her life.

After the HTML and HTML + drafts expired in early 1994, the IETF created an HTML Working Group, which in 1995 completed " HTML 2. 0 ", the first HTML specification intended to be treated as a standard against which future implementations should be based.

In 1994 market aggregation allowed Launceston based station TNT-9 ( now Southern Cross Tasmania ) to broadcast to Hobart as well.

In 1979 an uneasy peace was established with Egypt, based on the Camp David Accords and in 1993 peace treaties were signed with the PLO and in 1994 with Jordan.

Ultimately, Weaver made his choice based upon the " intensity " of the candidates, and in January 1994, Tom Coughlin was hired as the first ever head coach of the Jaguars.

But FORD, led by Oginga Odinga ( 1911 – 1994 ), a Luo, and Kenneth Matiba, a Kikuyu, split into two ethnically based factions.

The Koenigsegg badge was designed in 1994 by Jacob Låftman, based on the shield of the Koenigsegg family.

The breakthrough role in Dunst's career came in Interview with the Vampire, a 1994 film based on Anne Rice's novel, in which she played the child vampire Claudia, a surrogate daughter to Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt's characters in the film.

The development of Schaeffer ’ s practice was informed by encounters with voice actors and microphone usage and radiophonic art played an important part in inspiring and consolidating Schaeffer's conception of sound based composition ( Dack 1994, 3 – 11 ).

Ford introduced a slightly larger front-wheel drive minivan ( based on a reworked version of the 1980s Taurus platform ) called the Windstar in 1994.

The Nez Perce tribe began a breeding program in 1994 based on crossbreeding the Appaloosa and a Central Asian breed called Akhal-Teke to produce the Nez Perce Horse.

The NLP was active in Ireland since 1994, and was based in Dublin under the leadership of John Burns who ran with nine other NLP candidates in the 1997 General Election and four others in the 1999 European elections.

In 1994, SGI played with the idea of releasing something called " OpenGL ++" which included elements such as a scene-graph API ( presumably based on their Performer technology ).

In 1994 DEC sold the PDP-11 system-software rights to Mentec Inc., an Irish producer of LSI-11 based boards for Q-Bus and ISA architecture personal computers, and in 1997 discontinued PDP-11 production.

Power Macintosh, later Power Mac, is a line of Apple Macintosh workstation-class personal computers based on various models of PowerPC microprocessors that were developed, marketed, and supported by Apple Inc. from March 1994 until August 2006.

* Tsunami Games released two adventure games based on Ringworld ; Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch was released in 1992 and Return to Ringworld in 1994.

The Chargers continue to be the only NFL team based in Southern California, with no teams in Los Angeles since 1994.

Australian historian Robert Manne suggests " approximately 20, 000 to 25, 000 " were removed between 1910 and 1970, based on the Australian Bureau of Statistics report of 1994.

On January 8, 1994, Hayao Nakayama, then CEO of Sega, ordered his company to make a 32-bit cartridge based console that would be in stores by Christmas 1994.

* The SoftQuad DWB, based on USL DWB 2. 0 from 1994

Knight Rider 2010 is a 1994 movie loosely based on the show.