PLAYBILL.COM'S Interview With Andrew Lippa

Check out the interview with Andrew Lippa, Addams Family musical score writer, on Playbill.com

If the characters in Andrew Lippa's new musical The Addams Family showed up at the The Wild Party depicted in the composer's best-known previous show, they'd probably fit right in with the dissolute members of that decadent bash.

Who could be so creepy and kooky that they'd mingle well with Burrs and Queenie and the rest of the characters in The Wild Party? Why, the Addams Family, of course — Gomez and Morticia and Uncle Fester and the gang. The new musical is the latest link in a cultural chain that began with Charles Addams' original New Yorker cartoons, continued with the 1960s television sitcom, and was resurrected with the 1991 movie "The Addams Family" and its 1993 sequel. The production has a book by Tony Award-nominated Jersey Boys collaborators Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, an ideal cast headed by Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth and is currently trying out in Chicago. When it gets to New York in March 2010, it will mark the Broadway debut of a full Lippa score. (The songwriter previously contributed songs to the 1999 revival of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.) Lippa talked to Playbill.com from Chicago, just days before the new show opened in that town.

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Charles Addams Art PDF

A PDF pamphlet of several of Charles Addams's works has become available to download courtesy of the Bruce Museum and their recent Addams exibit.

Download the PDF from osun.org!

Snapshots of the Addams Family Musical

New photos of the muscial are officially available at www.broadwayworld.com

Addams Family and Munsters Join through Dinner Theater

According to Shibori Girl of of blogspot.com, the Addams family and the Munsters came close to uniting at the Golden Plough Inn in Peddler's Village, PA. Unfortunately, this joining ended in tragedy with the death of Eddie Munster.

While claims of the Munsters appearance in this production are unverified, Without A Cue Productions, LLC has indeed been presenting a Murder Mystery Dinner Theater entitled, "Itt's an Addams Family Mystery," since September. The Dinner Theater is summed up on the peddlersvillage.com website:

It's an Addams Family Reunion and you can be one of the spooky, kooky, or ooky. The family has gathered to renew old ties (and not just the ones at the ends of nooses) and Wednesday has announced a surprise engagement. It's a decidedly odd night, even for the Addamses, as Wednesday is ON her medication, Fester is bitten by the love bug, and with a killer on the loose Gomez and Morticia try to keep the family together (or at least various limbs from wandering off.)
Neat. Sweet. Deceased.
The Addams Family.

The show will be running until December 26th.

Read an article on the show on phillyburbs.com
Check out what Shibori Girl had to say about the show (includes photos)

Two More Honda Odyssey Commercials

Two More Japanese Honda Odyssey Commercials, circa 1994 & 1996.

Two More Songs from the Musical

Musical News

Since the output of Addams Family Broadway news, since the musical previewed, has consisted mostly of odds and ends, you may see a few compilation posts here until December 9th, the date of the official opening. A few of the more substantial fan reviews and articles about the play will be archived here.

There was recently a small feature on the play in Entertainment Weekly. Also, there was an article in the Chicago Tribune that was accidentally over-looked during archiving on the 13th.

theaddamsfamilymusical.com has released a new audio slide show with Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch (direction and design of the new musical).

More photos have also been uploaded of the Oriental Theater in Chicago by g33kgrrl of Flickr.com.

Finally, a fairly lengthy review/plot synopsis of the play can now be found on marcharshbarger.blogspot.com.