"This musical comedy takes all the wonderful things we know about 'The
Addams Family' and moves the story forward," said Craig Rich, director of the play and chair of CLC's Theatre Department.
Cast members of The
Addams Family in rehearsal (l to r: Honor Stobart, Lilia Immanuel, Bede Doe, Imogen Stobart) Photo Credit: Ben Squire
'The
Addams Family' will hit the theatres on October 11, 2019.
A glitzy-gloomy musical entirely worthy of the macabre drawings by Charles
Addams."
Newton weaves an interesting mystery as we, along with Emily
Addams, try to figure out just who poisoned Peter Elliott and why.
The set is beautiful, Diego Pitarch has designed a ramshackle and glittery, gothic, stage version of the
Addams house pulled from the comic strip, it even has a haunted painting; likewise his costume designs - in their costumes the ancestors/ghosts bring a sparkle to being dead.
Telling the story of Wednesday
Addams, a princess of darkness with a shocking secret, when her father Gomez learns that she has fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family, he must do something he's never done before - keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia.
First staged on New York's Broadway in 2010 with Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth, The
Addams Family was a huge success and picked up a handful of awards.
Les Dennis as Fester in the musical version of The
Addams Family at the Birmingham Hippodrome
Based on Charles
Addams's cartoons of the 1930s, 18-year-old Wednesday wants to marry all-American boy Lucas, whose straightlaced parents come to dinner.
The spooky family created by Charles
Addams were first cartoon characters before being adapted as a black and white TV series in the 1960s.
Reigning queen of Halloween Morticia
Addams is in vogue again with her gothic icy-yet-seductive look.
