Where Do the Addams Family Do for Work
The Addams Family unit – A New Musical
THE ADDAMS Family unit, a comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family unit, features an original story and it's every begetter'due south nightmare: Midweek Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown upwardly and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young homo from a respectable family– a man her parents have never met. And if that wasn't upsetting enough, Wed confides in her father and begs him not to tell her female parent. At present, Gomez Addams must do something he's never done before– keep a hush-hush from his love wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday's "normal" boyfriend and his parents.
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The Cast of the Equity National tour of The ADDAMS FAMILY
Sara Gettelfinger and the ensemble of the Equity National tour of THE ADDAMS Family
The Cast of the Equity National Tour of THE ADDAMS Family unit
Brian Justin Crum and Cortney Wolfson in the Equity National Tour of THE ADDAMS FAMILY
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Hundreds of years ago, the Addams family ancestors came from the old country and settled on a plot of land in what is now New York'due south Central Park. This was, of course, long before information technology was a park, when it was still wilderness. The family unit flourished for many generations, and somewhen, a huge house was built where a great Spanish oak, the Addams Family Tree, had been planted to protect the ancestral graves from such annoyances every bit sunlight and tourists.
As the pall rises, the concluding expressionless leaf of autumn falls from the Family Tree, and all is correct with the morbid, macabre world of Gomez, Morticia, Fester, Grandma, Midweek, Pugsley and Lurch. They've gathered – where else? – in the family graveyard, to gloat life and death in a yearly ritual to connect with their by and ensure their future. They seem at peace, not just with each other and their inimitable, unchanging Addams-ness, merely with their dead ancestors, besides – who emerge from their graves on this night each year to join in this celebration of continuity. Merely, at the end of the ritual, Fester blocks the ancestors' render to their graves. Those unchanging Addams family values are about to be tested.
Fester enlists their help to prepare things correct, just in case a new family underground goes terribly incorrect. What'south the hugger-mugger? Midweek Addams, that irresistible bundle of malice, has grown upwardly and establish dearest. Then what'south the problem? The young man, Lucas Beineke, is from Ohio, and his parents are coming to dinner to come across the family. 2 different worlds are about to collide. Will honey triumph, or will everyone become domicile vaguely depressed? Gomez and Morticia are understandably wary. Wednesday is their babe, fifty-fifty if she is xviii. Their doubts bloom into bodily terror when they eavesdrop on Midweek, who, in the midst of her afternoon play-date with Pugsley, refuses to torture her blood brother and involuntarily bursts into song – extolling all things bright and beautiful every bit love pulls her in an entirely new, and cheerful, direction.
Like any parents faced with a child in terrible trouble, Gomez and Morticia wonder, "Where did we go wrong?" Wednesday begs her parents not to cancel the dinner, and exhorts the entire family to act as 'normal' equally possible when Lucas and his parents arrive. She loves her family but the way they are, but they clearly fall outside the realm of what the Middle-American Beinekes are used to, and Wednesday's afraid that, if his parents don't approve of her, they'll take Lucas back to Ohio, and she'll never see him again. Like any unconditionally loving family, the Addams' promise to practice their best to oblige, while, lost somewhere in Central Park, young Lucas asks his parents to resist any judgments and all catastrophic conflicts, so both families tin can enjoy one normal night.
In even so some other role of the house, Pugsley, having witnessed Wednesday and Lucas making out, worries that he's lost his best friend to her new, disgustingly sunny disposition. Plotting to break up the happy couple, Pugsley steals a volatile potion from Grandma's private stash – Acrimonium – one swig of which is guaranteed to bring out the dark side in anyone who drinks information technology. Later what is probable a less-than-normal meal, Midweek hushes the table for Lucas' surprise declaration. Merely Gomez reminds Midweek that, before annihilation else happens, it's time for the traditional Addams family game, "Full Disclosure" – during which everyone takes a sip from a sacred chalice and reveals something they've never told anyone. Gomez uses his Disclosure to try, again in vain, to calm Morticia. Fester announces that he's in the throes of a most unlikely love – with the moon. When it's Wednesday's turn, Pugsley seizes his chance! He secretly pours the Acrimonium potion in the chalice and passes it to his sister. But his plan to awaken the night side in Wednesday goes horribly wrong when Alice, coughing, intercepts the chalice and downs the potion instead. A whole new Alice, very dark and uninhibited, is born. The powerful poison prompts her to reveal the long-buried problems with her spousal relationship, humiliating Mal, who, fed up with all the weird and creepy events of the evening, makes to leave, with Alice and Lucas in tow. Wed blurts out the news: "Lucas and I are getting married!" Anarchy engulfs both families like a tidal wave, and Fester, e'er-helpful, urges the Family Ancestors to work some magic – whipping up a sudden, terrible tempest and trapping the Beinekes with the Addams family for the night.
While the storm rages, Wednesday packs a purse, but Lucas has no ambition for running away and getting married without his parents' approving. Midweek, furious at everything it means to be normal, and furious at herself for trying and so hard to become somebody his parents would accept,leaves alone. One more of Gomez' episodes prompts Morticia to throw him out of her boudoir. Her world is changing and she's not ready, and her but condolement is knowing that expiry is waiting for her, merely around the corner. But it is very common cold comfort indeed. In the invitee room, Alice, nether the influence of the darkness potion, can no longer rhyme. Neither can she tolerate her married man's contemptuous attacks on Lucas and love. She packs him off with a pillow and blanket to sleep somewhere else, equally the tempest within her eye, and exterior in the park, rumbles to a conclusion.
Once the rains have stopped, Fester heads outside for a couple of hours of moon-bathing, realizing – afterwards observing the iii couples fighting – the sheer luck of beingness in a long-distance relationship, with the distant silver orb in the sky that smiles down on him from the heavens. Sitting under the family tree, contemplating the twists and turns of this most unusual night, Gomez stops Wednesday on her way out of the park. He realizes the affair he was most resistant to – his baby girl'south growing up – is inevitable, and proper. He sees that she'due south a young woman in love. And that makes him happy. And a tiny flake deplorable. With her begetter'south blessing, Wed offers Lucas one test to prove that he's The One. The examination involves her skills with a crossbow, an apple, and Lucas standing with said apple tree on his head in front of the family tree. The male child is afraid of death, only even more afraid of losing Wednesday. He chooses the possibility of death over the certainty of loss – and wins. Far below, in the grotto, Gomez and Mal, two displaced husbands, realize they accept more in common than they would have dared imagine only a few hours earlier. While Mal is with Gomez, Lurch ushers Alice downwards to the grotto. She's a adult female on a mission; she's going to lay downwardly the law; changes must be made if the marriage is to survive.
Morticia packs a bag and is ready to leave. But the ancestors' spirits have led Gomez to find her. The other warring couples, Wednesday and Lucas, Alice and Mal, have made their peace. Now Gomez woos his wife, as he first did one night many years before, with the promise to "express joy and cry and dance until the very gods weep with envy." The mournful strains of a bandoneon waft up on the breeze, entwining with the tempting wail of a violin – and a tango begins – the Tango de Amor, the quintessence of Eros, the dance that makes men weep and women cry out in the nighttime. The irresistible expression of dearest between husband and married woman. And Morticia cannot resist. With all three couples reunited, Fester is emboldened to make his move, and launches himself to the moon. Landing safely, his face appears – the homo in the moon – and, beloved having emphatically triumphed in sky and on earth, the gate to the family crypt swings open, allowing the spirits of the ancestors to rest for another year. It's been a dark of darkness. Everything's changed. And the new, extended family understands: The unknown may be frightening, the darkness overwhelming,only if we don't run from it, we may see our mysterious, miraculous lives finally illuminated. If we movement toward the darkness, we might find love and credence. For when it is night enough, we can see the stars.
– Rick Elice (Volume)
THE ADDAMS Family unit A NEW MUSICAL
Book by MARSHALL BRICKMAN and RICK ELICE Music and Lyrics by ANDREW LIPPA
Based on Characters Created by Charles Addams
Originally produced on Broadway by Stuart Oken, Roy Furman, Michael Leavitt, 5 Cent Productions, Stephen Schuler, Decca Theatricals, Scott Grand. Delman, Stuart Ditsky, Terry Allen Kramer, Stephanie P. McClelland, James L. Nederlander, Eva Price, Jam Theatricals/Mary LuRoffe, Pittsburgh CLO/Gutterman-Swinsky, Vivek Tiwary/Gary Kaplan, The Weinstein Visitor/Clarence, LLC, Adam Zotovich/Tribe Theatricals By Special Organisation with Elephant Heart Theatrical
4 female and half-dozen male featured roles
Opportunities for flexible casting in the ancestor ensemble.
Gomez Addams
Morticia Addams
Uncle Fester
Grandma
Wednesday Addams
Pugsley Addams
Lurch
Mal Beineke
Alice Beineke
Lucas Beineke
The Addams Ancestors – 5m, 5w (or more than if desired)
12 Musicians
Piano Conductor (Keyboard 1)
Keyboard 2
Reed i (Piccolo, Flute, Clarinet, Alto Sax)
Reed 2 (Flute, Clarinet, Tenor Sax, Soprano Sax, Bass Clarinet)
Trumpet (Trumpet, Flugelhorn)
Trombone (Trombone, Bass Trombone)
Violin (1 Player)
Cello (1 Player)
Bass (Audio-visual, Electric)
Guitar (Solid Body Electric, Banjo, Ukulele, Nylon Acoustic, Arch Top, Semi Hollow Body)
Drums/Percussion (2 players)
Percussion Listing: (Afuche Cabassa, Bell Tree, Bird Warble, Bongos, Brake Pulsate, Cabassa, Castanets, Caxixi, Chimes, Claves, Concert Bass Drum, Cowbell, Cymbal, Finger Cymbals, Glockenspiel, Gong, Guiro, Jingle, Mark Tree, Ratchet, Shaker, Siren, Slapstick, Suspended Cymbal, Tam Tam, Tambourine, Timbales, Timpani, Triangle, Vibraslap, Wood Blocks, Xylophone, *String bow also required for this part)
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