Musical theater fans RAGE over 'nepo baby' Maude Apatow being cast in Little Shop Of Horrors - Daily Mail

Many philharmonic theatre fans were near fuming astatine the casting of an off-Broadway revival of the classical amusement Little Shop Of Horrors.

Euphoria histrion Maude Apatow, the girl of Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann, is making her onstage debut arsenic the starring woman Audrey.

When the announcement appeared connected Playbill's Instagram account, the comments were filled with scathing remarks alleging she was hired due to the fact that of nepotism.

One Instagram idiosyncratic declared the onset of 'nepo babe season' arsenic different quoted signifier fable Patti LuPone: 'Broadway is becoming a Disneyland for the rich.' 

'Nepo babe strikes again,' 1 commenter sneered arsenic different quipped: 'I had to treble cheque this wasn’t a meme,' and inactive different wrote: 'you’re joking right'.

'Oh good, I was disquieted idiosyncratic who worked for the portion mightiness get it,' a societal media commentator deadpanned.

Another sneered: 'nice to spot nepo babies thriving erstwhile truthful galore can’t get a job,' and yet different noted: 'stunt casting AND nepo baby.'

'Whyyyyy is this the choice?!?' an Instagram commenter wondered arsenic a young histrion wrote exasperatedly: 'Yeah lemme conscionable rip up my degree.' 

'Can she even.... you cognize what, ne'er mind,' 1 societal media idiosyncratic groused successful the comments. 'Forget I astir asked.'

Maude had a smattering of defenders too, including 1 who argued that casting a TV property was helping 'the full formed and crew' to 'keep their jobs a small portion longer. It's ne'er truly conscionable astir 1 person.'

Broadway has a agelong past of welcoming showbiz legacies, from the celebrated Barrymore acting dynasty including John, Ethel and Lionel connected down. 

Carol Burnett became a prima successful a amusement called Once Upon A Mattress with euphony by Mary Rodgers, whose begetter was Richard Rodgers of Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Oscar Hammerstein himself was the lad of an impresario who opened a drawstring of opera houses and is present the namesake of New York's Hammerstein Ballroom.

Since 1965, the youngest-ever victor of the champion histrion Tony Award has been Liza Minnelli, girl of Judy Garland and renowned manager Vincente Minnelli.

Liza was conscionable 19 erstwhile she took location her Tony for Flora, The Red Menace, the first-ever Broadway amusement scored by Kander and Ebb of Cabaret and Chicago fame. 

In much caller years Ben Platt, the Tony-winning pb of the philharmonic Dear Evan Hansen, is the lad of movie shaper Marc Platt.

Jonah Hill's small sister Beanie Feldstein opened successful a revival of the aged Barbra Streisand conveyance Funny Girl past year, lone to person a blistering captious effect and beryllium replaced by Glee prima Lea Michele, who began her vocation connected Broadway.

Maude is 1 of a monolithic glut of rising starlets with celebrated parents, from Johnny Depp's girl Lily-Rose Depp to Andie MacDowell's girl Margaret Qualley.

Maya Hawke, whose parents are Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke, and Kaia Gerber, whose parent is Cindy Crawford, person changeable to fame successful caller years arsenic well.

Madonna's girl Lourdes Leon, Heidi Klum's girl Leni Klum and Elvis Presley's granddaughter Riley Keough are besides coming up, among others. 

The online chatter astir 'nepo babies' reached a fever transportation successful December aft New York mag ran a viral screen communicative astir the phenomenon.

Dakota Johnson, whose parents are Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith and whose grandma is Hitchcock blonde Tippi Hedren, was 1 of the faces connected the cover.

Jamie Lee Curtis, the girl of Psycho histrion Janet Leigh and Some Like It Hot heartthrob Tony Curtis, past waded into the debate.

Calling herself the 'OG Nepo Baby,' she complained: 'The existent speech astir nepo babies is conscionable designed to effort to diminish and denigrate and hurt.' 

Little Shop Of Horrors is simply a 1980s philharmonic with a publication and lyrics by Howard Ashman and euphony by Alan Menken - a duo who went connected to beryllium large players successful the Disney renaissance by penning the songs for The Little Mermaid and Beauty And The Beast.

The amusement followers a mild-mannered florist called Seymour who is simultaneously pining aft the emotion of his beingness Audrey portion coping with a gigantic talking Venus flytrap successful his attraction that survives by eating people. 

Before Seymour comes to cognize astir the plant's man-eating tendencies, helium names it Audrey II due to the fact that of his feelings for the starring lady.

Little Shop Of Horrors archetypal opened off-off-Broadway and past moved to off-Broadway for a 5 twelvemonth tally that began successful 1982.

Based connected a movie from 1960, the philharmonic features a beloved people heavy influenced by the euphony of the 1960s, peculiarly Motown.

A runaway success, Little Shop Of Horrors became the top-grossing off-Broadway show, but Howard Ashman resisted the thought of a Broadway transportation arsenic helium felt the task was astatine location off-Broadway, according to the New York Times.

Little Shop Of Horrors achieved caller heights of fame erstwhile it was adapted into a 1986 movie directed by Frank Oz, who played Yoda successful the Star Wars films.

Ghostbusters histrion Rick Moranis led the formed arsenic Seymour, portion Audrey was played by Ellen Greene, who had originated the relation off-Broadway. 

The philharmonic yet made it to Broadway successful 2003, successful a revival that implicit the people of its tally featured specified names arsenic Billy Porter and Joey Fatone.

Audrey was played by Alice Ripley, who a fewer years aboriginal won a champion histrion Tony Award for the Pulitzer-winning philharmonic Next To Normal.