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The ADDAMS FAMILY
It was back to the drawing board for its creators and what
we get is a new and improved Family musical
W E
What does being Addams-y mean? Thats a like deep tissue massage), but it took them a veryone has their own definition
question the creative team behind the splashy couple of, ahem, stabs at the material. of what the right tone for the
Addams Family Broadway musical had to As a result, Gomez and Morticia are show should be, adds Zaks. Its
decide as they wroteand rewrotetheir singing a different tuneor threein the gotta be more Addams-y. But the people
show, based on the characters created by car- touring edition of The Addams Family, which who say that dont know what theyre talking
toonist Charles Addams and brought to life in is spending the latter half of June at The about. It sounds smart, but Charles Addams
the 1960s TV series, and 1990s feature films, Denver Center for the Performing Arts. The drew these wonderful cartoons which pep-
and finally on Broadway in 2009. Broadway version underwent a considerable pered so many editions of The New Yorker
To production supervisor Jerry Zaks, face-lift after the creative team, including magazine and which always put a smile on
Morticia, Gomez, Wednesday, Pugsley, Uncle Zaks, composer-lyricist Andrew Lippa, book peoples faces. They were funny, but the rea-
Fester and their relations arent so different writers Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, son we smiled is because we identified with
from the rest of us; their weirdness is just and choreographer Sergio Trujillo, convened the Addams family; we identified with their
more pronounced. to revise the show for the national tour. It dark side.
What we did was to maintain the truthful- meant not only adding to and subtracting He points to an Addams drawing of the clan
ness of who the Addams family is in terms from the score, but also adjusting the thrust enjoying the holidays together: The family
of their values, but create a story that would of the narrative. is on the roof at Christmas time, just about
make it possible for the audience to relate It was a real challenge to take these known to pour what appears to be hot boiling oil on
to Morticia and Gomez, says Zaks, whos characters and throw them into a new story, carolers. That just speaks for itself.
won four Tony Awards over the course of says Lippa, whose score was nominated for a Zaks joined the creative team of The
his directorial career, for shows such as Six Tony. We were dealing with iconic char- Addams Family in December 2009, during
Degrees of Separation and a 1992 revival of acters that had, for lack of a better term, a the shows pre-Broadway run in
Guys and Dolls. playbook about them. People came in know- Chicago, as a creative consultant
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till, coming up with a plot and reasons ing these characters to some degree, and of to directors Phelim McDermott
for such established characters to sing course everybody knows them in a slightly and Julian Crouch. McDermott
for two-plus hours proved to be a long different way. and Crouch are the British duo
and exacting process. Not as bad as So the task at hand became finding a uni- who also designed the Addams
having your fingernails removed fied version of the show that the collaborators odd, macabre onstage world.
(which, for an Addams, might feel could get excited about. The musical opened on
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The ADDAMS FAMILY
Broadway a few months later, with Na- tour, he says. Its our reason for all of the related to the story or to the characters in
than Lane and Bebe Neuwrith heading the changes that followed. There are three new some way.
T
cast, but garnered only two Tony nomina- songs in the show and all of them have to do he version now on tour is the one that
tions although it ran for nearly two years. with that conflict. will be licensed to school and re-
Speaking at the Drama League Awards that Of those songsTrapped, Secrets gional theatres in the future, and both
year, Lane quipped, Its no secret that The and Not TodayLippa reports that the Zaks and Lippa says the final product was
Addams Family was not well received in first one, a song that Gomez sings near the worth the effort it took to revise it. It was
certain circles, like the Earth. beginning of the show, was the hardest to a remarkable opportunity to go back and
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he original plot revolved around Ad- write. It comes as Gomez realizes hes torn rethink the show, explains Lippa. Now in
dams daughter Wednesday who, hav- between a promise hes made to his wife and 20 years, when I go to my great nephews
ing fallen for a seemingly normal another hes made to his daughter. production of it at his high school, I can see
young man, invites him and his parents over It was grounded in the reality of what a show that I really love. n
for dinner to meet her family, then begs said has made Gomez so frustrated and worried,
family to try to act normal for one night (i.e., but at the same time it had to be funny, Diane Snyder is a freelance journalist
not be themselves). The story, the creators explains Lippa. But he doesnt realize whose work has appeared in Time Out
came to realize, gave Gomez and Morticia its funny, hes just stating the truth of it, New York, The Wall Street Journal and
precious little to do besides look on, banter and that took me a little while to grab on American Theatre.
and, occasionally, sing and dance. to. I wanted it to be funny, so I needed to
There was no significant conflict between come up with examples of people that were
our two lead characters, says Zaks. Be- trapped in real life. Theres a lyric that
cause of that, they goes, Like a fly in my tea/Or the New York
Ive never had a show where What we did was to maintain the
there was a major song that truthfulness of who the Addams family
I couldnt bear to lose, and is in terms of their values, but
thats usually because create a story that would
when you write that song make it possible for
that you cant bear to lose, the audience to
you wouldnt need to, relate to Morticia
because its so clearly and Gomez.
related to the story or to the
Photos courtesy of
THE ADDAMS FAMILY.
Jerry Zaks,
characters in some way. Addams Family
Addams Family composer-lyricist Production Supervisor
Andrew Lippa
were relegated to basically facilitating and DMV/Im trapped. Somehow people out in
observing the evening. the country understand New York DMV as
This time around, Wednesday is en- being funny. Theyve never had an experi-
gaged to her beloved, Lucas Beineke, and ence with it, but evidently they can imagine
persuades her father not to tell her mother how bad it is.
until shes ready to announce it. Problems Three songs from the Broadway version
arise when Morticia suspects hes hiding were cut, including a Gomez and Morticia
something from her. duet, Where Did We Go Wrong; Gomezs
The cornerstone of the Morticia-Gomez love ode, Morticia; and In the Arms, a
relationship, we decided, should be that they ballad sung by Lucas father after a rather June 19 July 1 Buell Theatre
always tell each other the truth, explains affectionate encounter with a large mollusk.
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THE ADDAMS FAMILY
THE ADDAMS FAMILY
Gomez Addams .................................................................................................DOUGLAS SILLS
Morticia Addams.................................................................................... SARA GETTELFINGER
Uncle Fester ................................................................................................ BLAKE HAMMOND
Grandma........................................................................................................ PIPPA PEARTHREE
Wednesday Addams ..................................................................................CORTNEY WOLFSON
Pugsley Addams ..................................................................................... PATRICK D. KENNEDY
Lurch .....................................................................................................................TOM CORBEIL
UNDERSTUDIES
Understudies never substitute for the listed players unless
a specific posting or announcement is made at the time of the performance.
For Gomez Addams: BRAD NACHT, MARTIN VIDNOVIC; for Morticia Addams: CHRISTY
MORTON, SAMANTHA SHAFER; for Uncle Fester: BRAD NACHT, ROLAND RUSINEK;
for Wednesday Addams: LIZZIE KLEMPERER, ALEXANDRA MATTEO; for Pugsley Addams:
ETHAN WEXLER; for Grandma: VICTORIA HUSTON-ELEM, CHRISTY MORTON; for
Lurch: PATRICK OLIVER JONES, GEO SEERY; for Mal Beineke: PATRICK OLIVER JONES,
BRAD NACHT; for Alice Beineke: VICTORIA HUSTON-ELEM, CHRISTY MORTON; for
Lucas Beineke: TED ELY, JONATHAN RITTER.
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BRAD NACHT, JONATHAN RITTER.
Pippa Pearthree Tom Corbeil Patrick D. Kennedy Brian Justin Crum Cortney Wolfson
ACT TWO
Entracte............................................................................................................................Orchestra
Just Around the Corner..................................................................................Morticia, Ancestors
The Moon and Me......................................................................Uncle Fester, Female Ancestors
Happy/Sad.........................................................................................................................Gomez
Crazier Than You..........................................................................Wednesday, Lucas, Mal, Alice
Not Today..........................................................................................................................Gomez
Lets Live Before We Die.................................................................................. Gomez, Morticia
Tango de Amor................................................................................ Morticia, Gomez, Company
Move Toward the Darkness...........................................................................................Company
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Women with
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Act Seven 1
More than 600 women and a few gentlemen showed off their
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May 3rd. The seventh annual event raised more than $20,000
in net proceeds for the Womens Voices Fund, an endowment
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production of new plays by women and the hiring of more
women as lead artists at the Denver Center Theatre Company.
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and above all else, stay true to themselves. George Hamilton and the
dynamite cast of La Cage will leave you humming the melodies of this
extraordinary new version of an indisputable musical comedy classic. n
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An instant sensation with the people of Paris, the story of dArtagnan was
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to Paris with just one goal in mind: to join the Kings Musketeers. Befriended
by three legendary swordsmenAthos, Porthos and Aramishe is immedi-
ately put to the test, and along the way finds love, faces temptation and thwarts
evil. This grand and roisterous adventure, which also features the duplicitous
Milady and the scheming Cardinal Richelieu, is loaded with dazzling sword-
play, intrigue and comedy, as this adaptation of Dumas novel also considers
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