The Addams Family to Make Its OC Premiere at Segerstrom Center, 12/18-30

The national tour of the new musical The Addams Family, based on the bizarre and beloved family of characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams, will make its Orange County premiere on December 18 at Segerstrom Center for the Arts as part of the Broadway Series.

Single tickets, which start at $20, will go on sale Sunday, November 4 at 10 a.m. PST. Tickets will be available online at SCFTA.org, at the Box Office at 600 Town Center Drive in Costa Mesa or by calling (714) 556-2787. For inquiries about group ticket savings for 10 or more, call the Group Services office at (714) 755-0236.

The TTY number is (714) 556-2746. The 2 p.m. performance on Saturday, December 29 will include audio description, open captioning and sign-language interpretation. The Addams Family played Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre from March 2010 – December 2011 where it grossed more than $85 million. Chris Jones of the Chicago Tribune described the production as “classic, full-tilt, fast paced, old-fashioned musical comedy!” and John Simon of Bloomberg News called it “Uproarious! A glitzy-gloomy musical entirely worthy of the macabre drawings by Charles Addams.” The North American tour of The Addams Family premiered in New Orleans in September 2011 and has played more than 350 performances to date. Richard Ouzounian of the Toronto Star called the production a “wackily entertaining musical […] that moves with breezy style and an open heart” and Robert Trussell of the Kansas City Star praised it as “first class [with] unexpected pleasure at almost every turn.”