With apologies to the fine janitorial staff at Mahopac High School, the stage in the school’s auditorium is looking a bit like, well, Skid Row these days.

There was a wino there the other day, lying in the gutter, singing.

Somebody call security.

Welcome to “Little Shop of Horrors,” the fall musical from the Mahopac Drama Company. Written by Howard Ashman and New Rochelle native Alan Menken “Little Shop” is a bouncy, doo-wop version of the 1960 Roger Corman movie about a man-eating plant and a flower-shop romance.

Director Hollie Wund and a cast and crew of 70 students bring the story to the stage with performances at 7 tonight and tomorrow.

Molly Kornfeld, 16, a junior, plays Audrey, the put-upon flower-shop girl who loves leopard-print clothes and can’t seem to attract anything but wolves.

“She didn’t have a dad and men always overpower her in relationships,” Kornfeld says. “She puts up with it because she’s ashamed of herself and her past and feels like she doesn’t deserve a nice guy like Seymour.”

Seymour is Seymour Krelborn, a clumsy nebbish who lives in Mushnik’s Flower Shop and loves two things: strange plants and Audrey.

Andre Aivazians, 17, a senior, plays Seymour. It’s a far cry from last fall, when he played The Prince in “Beauty and the Beast,” a show with another Menken score.

“He’s an awkward, gawky kind of character,” Aivazians says. “He tries to show off for Audrey and it doesn’t work out so well. He ends up making himself look even worse.

“He’s a lonely kind of guy. He had no parents, he’s an orphan and Mr. Mushnik took him out of the Skid Row Home for Boys, gave him a warm place to sleep – under the counter.”

Many of Seymour’s scenes are with Audrey II, the evil little plant that grows and grows, thanks to its thirst for human blood. Aivazians says he looks at Audrey II – whether the countertop model, the handheld one, the larger version or the gigantic room-filler – as just another character in the show.

“Our puppeteers are doing a great job,” he says. “I hear Michelle Klimm’s voice from offstage, but I just focus on the plant. I just kind of act at the plant.”

Both Audrey and Seymour are victimized – she, by sadistic boyfriends and he by Mushnik and the world – but that changes with one dramatic song: “Suddenly Seymour.”

“It’s probably my favorite moment,” Aivazians says, “because he really comes out of his shell and it shows the evolution of both characters.”

“Audrey realizes it’s OK and it’s good that Seymour loves her and her past is behind her,” Kornfeld says.

Two performances are ahead of those denizens of Skid Row.

‘Little Shop of Horrors’
Where: Mahopac High School, 421 Baldwin Place Road.
When: 7 p.m. Nov. 21-22.
Tickets: $7.
With: Kylie Derby, Rachel Formale, Damaris Giha, Melissa Bellenchia, Victoria Dolan, Joe Caldarella, Andre Aivazians, Molly Kornfeld, Ryan Finch, Michelle Klimm, Reece Vello, Adam Lind, Kristyn Higgins, Abner Jimenez, Matt Rank, Max Rutcovsky, Cami Riviezzo, Rebecca Larkin, Nick Sochan, Stephen Maddock, Sarah Dean, David Rosenberg, Alexander Miller, Grace Kolba, Amanda Weiss, Maria Grispin, Jill Koehnken, Barbara Weissman, Daniel Ehrenpreis, Kelly O’Connor, Alisa Frankfurter, Lauren Fischetti, Kevin Molfetta, Andrew Ronald, John Realbuto, Erica Georgeo, Charlie Mimran, Erica Block, Alex Pietrocola, Susanna Vaupen, Stephen Donovan, Jon Karpf, Maddie Manfredi, Maggie Bacon, Caleb Teicher, Rosanna Fichera, Nia Jenkins, Oorja Mehra, Emily Timson, Jessica Fischer, Shannon O’Shea, Ankita Deosthalj, Clarissa Zamora, Veronica Burnham, Caitlin Baranowski, Mrig Mehra, Jenn Kufa, Courtney Blecker, Veronica Hudak, Lucas Petersen, Zack Aquilino, Brendan Keefe, Jacob Armstrong, Amanda Gross, Victoria DuBon, Will Tock, Abigail Armstrong, Stephen Gilbreth, Albert Lewis, Dymon Johnston, Andrew Bunyea, John DiNapoli, Rich Cerbini, Louis Oliva, Andy Castillo, Rich Williams, Stas Przymylski