The Addams Family at Pacific Conservatory Theatre

PCPA presentsThe Addams Familya musical comedy..and every parent's worst nightmareBased on the classic Addams cartoon characters and the vintage TV series, The Addams Family, a new musical comedy, plays July 18 27 in Santa Marias Marian Theatre and August 3 25 in the Solvang Festival Theater.Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family a man her parents have never met. And if that werent upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something hes never done before keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia.Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesdays normal boyfriend and his parents. But then, what is normal? As Morticia says, Normal is an illusionWhats normal for the spider is a calamity for the fly.As love triumphs, we realize that even the strangest of families share in the same joys and fears as the rest of us. Director Erik Stein says, The Addams Family asks the question, What is it to be pulled out of your comfort zone? We live in our own bubble and surround ourselves with like minds. Often we avoid the other and demonize or fear those that are not on our team. He said that in distrusting those that live differently, we often dont see what we have in common. This show can allow us to be pulled out of our bubble.Its the perfect play at just the right time. The music is incredible, the script is hilarious, the choreography is wonderful, and it gives us insight into two very different families, who, at first, think they have nothing in common and want nothing to do with each other, and, in the end, find commonality and become a larger and better family, said Stein.