Based on the iconic characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams, THE ADDAMS FAMILY is an all-new musical comedy starring Tony Award winner Roger Rees as Gomez and stage and screen star Brooke Shields as Morticia. THE ADDAMS FAMILY features an original story. It's every parent's nightmare. Your little girl has suddenly become a young woman, and what's worse, has fallen deliriously in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family. Yes, Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has a "normal" boyfriend, and for parents Gomez and Morticia, it's a shocking development that turns the Addams house upside down when they are forced to host a dinner for the young man and his parents.
THE ADDAMS FAMILY has a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice (librettists of the 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Jersey Boys), music and lyrics by Drama Desk Award winner Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party), direction and design by Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch (Shockheaded Peter, The Metropolitan Opera's Satyagraha) and choreography by Sergio Trujillo (Next to Normal, Jersey Boys).
Considering the insane amount of hype this show has received, 'The Addams Family' would appear to be the biggest disappointment of the theater season.
In keeping with Addams’s graphic style, Zaks offers some delightfully surreal scenic moments: a tassel cut from the end of a rope scuttles offstage by itself; a giant squid and a monster iguanodon make surprise appearances. Zaks does his best to drive this money train down the bad track it’s laid on. (He replaced the show’s original directing team, Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch.) The show’s narrative, however, can’t handle Addams’s Grand Guignol edge; the book, written by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, stays safely on the outside of Addams’s comic world, looking in. Of all the dark cards in Addams’s hand, the team has picked the weakest one: love. Wednesday, the crossbow-toting Goth, falls for Lucas Beineke (Wesley Taylor), a square from Ohio, whose buttoned-down parents come to dinner at the Addams house: in other words, it’s “The Birdcage” reimagined for Bela Lugosi. Except for the occasional blip of wit, fifteen minutes into the palaver the audience can feel the show flatlining.
2010 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
2011 | US Tour |
National Tour US Tour |
2021 | UK Tour |
UK Tour |
2024 | West End |
West End |
Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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2010 | BroadwayWorld Awards | Best Costume Design | Phelim McDermott |
2010 | BroadwayWorld Awards | Best Costume Design | Julian Crouch |
2010 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Nathan Lane |
2010 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musica | Kevin Chamberlin |
2010 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Carolee Carmello |
2010 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | Natasha Katz |
2010 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lyrics | Andrew Lippa |
2010 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Music | Andrew Lippa |
2010 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Musical | The Addams Family |
2010 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Phelim McDermott |
2010 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Basil Twist |
2010 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Nathan Lane |
2010 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Bebe Neuwirth |
2010 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Kevin Chamberlin |
2010 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Carolee Carmello |
2010 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Phelim McDermott |
2010 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Julian Crouch |
2010 | Tony Awards | Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Andrew Lippa |
2010 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | Kevin Chamberlin |
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