Douglas Sills & Sara Gettelfinger to Headline THE ADDAMS FAMILY Tour

Douglas Sills, a Tony Award nominee for The Scarlet Pimpernel, and Sara Gettelfinger, last seen on Broadway in A Free Man of Color and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, will star as Gomez and Morticia in the upcoming national tour of THE ADDAMS FAMILY, a new musical based on the bizarre and beloved family of characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams. As previously announced, the production will begin performances September 15 at the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts in New Orleans and will continue on to over 30 additional major markets across North America.

Douglas Sills received Tony and Drama Desk nominations as well as the Los Angeles Ovation Award for his performance as The Scarlet Pimpernel on Broadway and on tour. He recently starred in the Chicago tryout of the new rock musical White Noise. Additional Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors. National Tours: The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Secret Garden, Into the Woods. New York: Music in the Air, Carnival (Encores), On the 20th Century, Moonlight & Magnolias (MTC), Disney's When You Wish. Regional: She Loves Me, Peter Pan, A Little Night Music, Much Ado About Nothing, She Stoops To Folly, Showboat, Mack & Mabel, The Philadelphia Story, Chess, Summer People, Mrs. Warren's Profession and many leading roles with California Shakespeare Festival. Recordings: The Scarlet Pimpernel, Cyrano. Television: PBS with the Boston Pops, CSI, The Closer, Numb3rs, Will & Grace, Any Day Now, Party Of Five, Sabrina, Murphy Brown. Film: Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, Funny About Love. In addition to Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations, Douglas has been honored in New York with The Theater World, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle Awards. In Los Angeles he has received The Garland, The Dramalogue, and Robby awards. Mr. Sills is a founding member of The Antaeus Company and studied at The University of Michigan and The American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.

Sara Gettelfinger most recently appeared as "Dona Athene" in John Guare's A Free Man of Color at Lincoln Center. Broadway: Seussical the Musical, The Boys from Syracuse, "Carla" in Nine with Antonio Banderas, "Jolene Oakes" in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels opposite John Lithgow, as well as the first national tours of Fosse and 101 Dalmatians as "Cruella De Vil." Other NYC area credits include: "April" in Company (Helen Hayes), "Fastrada" in Pippin (Papermill Playhouse), Tenderloin and Carnival at City Center Encores!, Anything Goes at Lincoln Center and "Little Edie Beale" in the world premier of Grey Gardens at Playwrights Horizons. In 2009, Sara starred as "Fastrada" in the Deaf West production of Pippin at L.A.'s Mark Taper Forum. Television: Guiding Light, Ed, Without a Trace. Film: 10 to Midnight, Sex In the City, Forbidden Love. In 2006 Sara was signed to DECCA/Universal Records with the classical-crossover trio Three Graces. Their self-titled, debut album was released in stores/online in March 2008, reaching the top 10 on the Billboard Crossover Charts, followed by a worldwide, critically acclaimed concert tour.

THE ADDAMS FAMILY features a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, and music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa. The production is directed and designed (sets and costumes) by Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch with creative consultation by Jerry Zaks and choreography by Sergio Trujillo.

The production features lighting design by Natasha Katz, sound design by ACME Sound Partners and puppetry by Basil Twist. The production also features music supervision by Mary-Mitchell Campbell, orchestrations by Larry Hochman, dance arrangements by August Eriksmoen, hair design by Tom Watson, make-up design by Angelina Avallone and special effects design by Greg Meeh.

THE ADDAMS FAMILY opened on April 8, 2010 on Broadway and is produced by Stuart Oken, Roy Furman, Michael Leavitt, Five Cent Prods., Stephen Schuler, Decca Theatricals, Scott M. Delman, Stuart Ditsky, Terry Allen Kramer, Stephanie P. McClelland, James L. Nederlander, Eva Price, JAM Theatricals/Mary Lu Roffe, Pittsburgh CLO/Gutterman-Swinsky, Vivek Tiwary/Gary Kaplan, The Weinstein Co./Clarence, LLC and Adam Zotovich/Tribe Theatricals, by special arrangement with Elephant Eye Theatrical. Several international productions are planned and will be announced shortly.

For more information on THE ADDAMS FAMILY, visit www.theaddamsfamilymusicaltour.com

THE ADDAMS FAMILY 2011 - 2012 National Tour Dates

New Orleans, LA 9/15 - 9/24 Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts
St. Louis, MO 9/27 - 10/9 The Fabulous Fox Theatre
Charlotte, NC 10/11 - 10/16 Ovens Auditorium
Tampa, FL 10/18 - 10/23 David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts
Miami, FL 10/25 - 10/30 Adrienne Arsht Center
Orlando, FL 11/1 - 11/6 Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre
West Palm Beach, FL 11/8 - 11/13 The Raymond Kravis Center for the Performing Arts
Toronto, ON 11/16 - 11/27 Toronto Centre for the Arts
Schenectady, NY 11/29 - 12/4 The Proctors Theatre
Buffalo, NY 12/6 - 12/11 Shea's Performing Arts Center
Chicago, IL 12/13 - 1/1 The Cadillac Palace Theatre
Nashville, TN 1/3 - 1/8 Tennessee Performing Arts Center
Houston, TX 1/10 - 1/15 The Hobby Center
Oklahoma City, OK 1/17 - 1/22 Civic Center Music Hall
Tulsa, OK 1/24 - 1/29 Chapman Music Hall
East Lansing, MI 1/31 - 2/5 Wharton Center
Boston, MA 2/7 - 2/19 Shubert Theatre
Hartford, CT 2/21 - 2/26 The Bushnell
Durham, NC 2/28 - 3/4 Durham Performing Arts Center
Baltimore, MD 3/6 - 3/18 Hippodrome Theatre
Providence, RI 3/20 - 3/25 Providence Performing Arts Center
Cincinnati, OH 3/27 - 4/8 Aronoff Center
Cleveland, OH 4/10 - 4/22 Palace Theatre
Memphis, TN 4/24 - 4/29 Orpheum Theatre
Madison, WI 5/1 - 5/6 Overture Center
St. Paul, MN 5/8 - 5/20 Ordway
Grand Rapids, MI 5/22 - 5/26 DeVos Performance Hall
San Diego, CA 5/29 - 6/3 Civic Theatre
Los Angeles, CA 6/5 - 6/17 Pantages Theatre
Washington, D.C. 7/10 - 7/29 Kennedy Center Opera House
Pittsburgh, PA 7/31 - 8/12 Benedum Center