The Addams Family Touring Reviews

The musical numbers are average, and even though this is a musical, there are actually too many songs. Aragón’s singing voice is lovely and he channels Gomez a la John Astin well. One of the biggest issues is that Gomez has a lot of songs, especia...

The musical numbers are average, and even though this is a musical, there are actually too many songs. Aragón’s singing voice is lovely and he channels Gomez a la John Astin well. One of the biggest issues is that Gomez has a lot of songs, especially in Act One, that are back to back. The best musical numbers are the ones which give the audience glimpses into the Addams family members’ personalities.

What makes this production work isn’t just the gags (of which there are plenty), but the sincerity behind the strangeness. Rodrigo Aragón is a charming and magnetic Gomez, equal parts romantic and ridiculous, with a fantastic handle on the show’...

What makes this production work isn’t just the gags (of which there are plenty), but the sincerity behind the strangeness. Rodrigo Aragón is a charming and magnetic Gomez, equal parts romantic and ridiculous, with a fantastic handle on the show’s mix of slapstick and sincerity.

Characters can only get you so far without a story, and this plot is particularly conventional. Oldest child Wednesday is now an adult, one secretly engaged to a “normal” young man from Ohio, and she’s invited his parents to dinner to meet her ...

Characters can only get you so far without a story, and this plot is particularly conventional. Oldest child Wednesday is now an adult, one secretly engaged to a “normal” young man from Ohio, and she’s invited his parents to dinner to meet her decidedly out-of-the-ordinary family. That’s the gist of it, the action hanging on the flimsy premise that father Gomez keeping their engagement a secret will somehow damage his marriage to Morticia.