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Mushniks Disappearance

posted 10 years ago by LizziActs
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This has bothered me since I was a kid.
When Oran dies(disappears), police are immediately there the next morning talking to Audrey.
When Mushnik dies(disappears), not ONE word is said.
I've thought about this really in depth. Like, I understand Oran was a bigger part of the community, being a dentist and all that, not showing up for work. Blah blah blah. But I mean, come on. Not ONE word! And with all the success boiling from Mushniks flower shop, I don't understand how nothing was mentioned. And from him dying, to the end of the song "The Meek Shall Inherit" it's obvious a good amount of time has passed. Like, Audrey doesn't even stop for a second and say "Hey, where's Mushnik?" And if the police were to have gotten involved, they immediately would've connected a tie between Oran, Mushnik, and Audrey being she worked for Mushnik and dated Oran. I don't even think Seymour would have been part of it. I just think it was a huge plot hole that nothing was said about it.
Has anyone else thought about this?

[–] martymcsly2k1 10 years ago

covered in a deleted scene with dialogue from the play (he went to visit his sister in Czechoslovakia)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puBet0g13a8

[–] toking65000 10 years ago

Like you said, I assumed a great deal of time had passed, so prolly there were questions asked, we just didn't see it happen.

Also like you said Mushnik was not as big in the community so maybe his disappearance wasn't as obvious.

Or maybe they just thought he hit the road, he was always talking about closing down.

Create a society in which you would like to live, not knowing what you're going to come into it as.

[–] jarredbraga 10 years ago

Keep in mind too that they live on Skid Row, where things like this happen pretty much on a daily basis. But as said earlier, it is explained in the stage show as well as the deleted proposal scene:

Audrey: I think running the shop all by yourself is too much for you. When did Mr. Mushnik say he'd be back?

Seymour: Huh?

Audrey: You know, in that note you told me he left you. The one that said he was going to visit his sister in-

Seymour: Czecoslovakia. Right... Uh, he could be gone a very long time...

[–] HikerBoy57 10 years ago

In addition to the explanations already offered:

•Seymour left Orin's office pretty much the way it was, with the stuff scattered on the floor that Orin had knocked down. (Did he wipe his fingerprints? We don't know.) It looked more like a suspicious crime scene and would have been discovered by his nurses.

•Mushnik, OTOH– well, not many people are going to come looking for him except his own employees, and he was pretty cleanly disposed of (no evidence).

There's your difference. :)

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