The Addams Family 2010 - Articles Page 1.8
Run Time:
2 hours and 35 minutes, with one intermission
Opened: April 8, 20102 hours and 35 minutes, with one intermission
Closing: December 31, 2011
The Addams Family - 2010 - Broadway History , Info & More
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (Broadway)
205 West 46th St. New York, NY
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).
The Addams Family - 2010 - Broadway Cast
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Festering
3 / 10
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.
Even with Neuwirth, Lane, 'Addams Family' musical can't live up to original
2 / 10
Oh Broadway, Broadway, Broadway. Don't you know, you never seem sadder or more imaginatively barren than when you're diving for commercial relevance in the dumpsters behind old TV shows and movies? 'The Addams Family' -- this year's answer to the question, How many talented people does it take to screw up a concept? -- marks a significant depressing of an ever-more-degraded standard. It's a new show that, despite its mechanized trickery, feels rickety beyond belief, the 2010 musical version of a series of magazine cartoons from the 1930s, '40s and '50s that became a '60s sitcom that became a '90s Hollywood franchise. What you might call a wholly pre-owned Broadway musical.
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The Addams Family FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What productions of The Addams Family have there been?
The Addams Family has had 4 productions including Broadway which opened in 2010, US Tour which opened in 2011, UK Tour which opened in 2021 and West End which opened in 2024.
What Tony Awards has The Addams Family been nominated for?
The Addams Family has been nominated for Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre for Andrew Lippa at the Tony Awards.
What awards has The Addams Family been nominated for?
The Addams Family has been nominated for several awards, including Outstanding Lighting Design (Drama Desk Awards) for Natasha Katz, Outstanding Lyrics (Drama Desk Awards) for Andrew Lippa, Outstanding Music (Drama Desk Awards) for Andrew Lippa, Outstanding Musical (Drama Desk Awards) for The Addams Family, Outstanding Set Design (Drama Desk Awards) for Phelim McDermott, Outstanding Set Design (Drama Desk Awards) for Basil Twist, Outstanding Set Design (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Phelim McDermott, and Outstanding Set Design (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Julian Crouch.
What awards has The Addams Family won?
The Addams Family has won several awards, including Outstanding Lighting Design (Drama Desk Awards) for Natasha Katz, Outstanding Lyrics (Drama Desk Awards) for Andrew Lippa, Outstanding Music (Drama Desk Awards) for Andrew Lippa, Outstanding Musical (Drama Desk Awards) for The Addams Family, Outstanding Set Design (Drama Desk Awards) for Phelim McDermott, Outstanding Set Design (Drama Desk Awards) for Basil Twist, Outstanding Set Design (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Phelim McDermott, and Outstanding Set Design (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Julian Crouch.
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