Showing posts with label interview. Show all posts
Showing posts with label interview. Show all posts
Monday, October 24, 2011
Behind The Scenes: The Addams Family Movie (1991)
This is a rare video clip with interviews with actors from the Addams Family movie. To my knowledge, it was never aired on television in any English speaking nations.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Thursday, December 10, 2009
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.
Read the full review
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.
Read the full review
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Nathan Lane embraces an emotional Gomez in 'The Addams Family'
Lane was in a strikingly emotional mood a few days before his first public performance as Gomez Addams of "The Addams Family," which he said will be his 17th Broadway show ("that must be more than Marian Seldes"). The musical, now in previews, opens Dec. 9 and will run through Jan. 10 before heading to New York for an April premiere.
He had been coaxed into the project _ and away from another more tenuous Broadway project _ when writer Marshall Brickman called him and said the very thing that torpedoes the defenses of every actor: "We wrote this part with you in mind."
Read full article on californiachronicle.com
He had been coaxed into the project _ and away from another more tenuous Broadway project _ when writer Marshall Brickman called him and said the very thing that torpedoes the defenses of every actor: "We wrote this part with you in mind."
Read full article on californiachronicle.com
Monday, November 16, 2009
Chicago Sun-Times Article
(The large version of the above photo was posted by livejournal's mrsxlovett.)
A 'Family' portrait
Making a musical of 'The Addams Family' took more than a snap of the fingers for its creators
BY HEDY WEISS Sun-Times Theater Critic
The very first cartoon depicting members of what eventually would become the Addams Family appeared in The New Yorker magazine in 1938.
Standing at the bottom of a stairway, in the dark interior of what seems to be a rather grand home, the couple who will eventually be named Gomez and Morticia are watching as a salesman demonstrates a vacuum cleaner. The caption reads: “Vibrationless, noiseless, and a great time and back-saver. No well-appointed home should be without it.”
Read the full Chicago Sun-Times article, An 'Addams Family' Musical by the numbers .
Bebe Neuwirth Interview
Bebe Neuwirth, actress currently playing Morticia in the Addams Family Musical, recently sat down for an interview about her role!
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Addams Family Musical News
Well, there have been quite a few bits of Addams Family Musical news in the last few weeks. Unfortunately, this blog is running very behind in recent coverage. Here's a compilation of some of the most current news.
There is an "audio sideshow" interview with Kevin Chamberlin, performer cast to play Fester, currently available on the Addams Family Musical's official website.
Also, the first photo has been released of the musical's cast in Vanity Fair (the December issue)!
Read what's being said about the musical on Vanity Fair's website. There, you can also find this great video of interviews about the production and ideas behind the upcoming musical.
Finally, you can now take a peek into the life of an Addams Family member on twitter. Wednesday Addams has started her own twitter account. Here's an exert:
"Perusing courses offered @ NYU this year—for curiosity’s sake. “The Science of Happiness,” duly followed in the catalog by “Skepticism”."
The Addams Family musical begins previews on the 13th (Friday the 13th)--that's in just a few days! Find out more on the Addams Family musical's official site!
There is an "audio sideshow" interview with Kevin Chamberlin, performer cast to play Fester, currently available on the Addams Family Musical's official website.
Also, the first photo has been released of the musical's cast in Vanity Fair (the December issue)!
Read what's being said about the musical on Vanity Fair's website. There, you can also find this great video of interviews about the production and ideas behind the upcoming musical.
Finally, you can now take a peek into the life of an Addams Family member on twitter. Wednesday Addams has started her own twitter account. Here's an exert:
"Perusing courses offered @ NYU this year—for curiosity’s sake. “The Science of Happiness,” duly followed in the catalog by “Skepticism”."
The Addams Family musical begins previews on the 13th (Friday the 13th)--that's in just a few days! Find out more on the Addams Family musical's official site!
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Interview with Addams Family Musical Authors
The Addams Family Musical Website has recently updated with a video interview with the musical's authors, Marshall Brickman and Rich Elice!
Watch the interview on the offical homepage
Watch the interview on the offical homepage
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
John Astin's Passion for Poe
John Astin talks about his love of Edgar Allan Poe, and how his role in the Addams Family helps him "bring good literature to people."
Read the article on baltimoresun.com
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Charles Addams 1976 Magazine Article Profile
Article from the September 13th, 1976 issue of People Magazine.
Catch the full three page spread on the I'm Learning To Share BLOG!
Sunday, June 29, 2008
An Evening with John Astin
John Astin read poems, prose excerpts and told anecdotes about his career at the Duncan Smith Theater in Holmdel this week. The special appearances were entitled, "An Evening with John Astin," and were a benefit for the education and community programs of the Holmdel Theatre Company.
-Read an interview with Astin
-Astin talks more about the event
-Read more about the event
Friday, March 7, 2008
Interview with Christopher Hart, hand actor Addams Family's Thing
“The man with the movie star hand,” and “The most famous right hand in Hollywood” are just two of the quotes reviewers have used to describe the talents of master magician Christopher Hart.
This came following his featured role as “Thing” the expressive disembodied hand in the film “The Addams Family,” and its sequel “Addams Family Values." ...
Read More at omhanyreport.blogspot.com
(Scroll about 1/4 of the way down page)
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Raul Julia Interview
Newspaper Enterprise Association
ACCLAIMED STAGE ACTOR FINDS FAME AS PATRIARCH OF ADDAMS FAMILY
BYLINE: FRANK LOVECE, NEA
He's creepy, but not particularly kooky or ooky. And while we perhaps might be speaking of Othello — one of the many Shakespearean characters Raul Julia has played to acclaim on the New York stage — we refer, of course, to Julia's inimitable Gomez Addams.
After a broad, distinguished theater career and charismatic roles in many movies, Julia has found his biggest audience as patriarch of the dryly comic ghouls of Addams Family Values, the sequel to last year's hit, The Addams Family. Based, like the 1960s TV series, on the late Charles Addams's long-running cartoons for The New Yorker magazine, the film reunites Julia, Anjelica Huston, Christopher Lloyd and Christina Ricci as members of the horrific but loving family.
"Well, y'know," says Julia gamely, "each situation is interesting for its own sake. And as far as the Addams Family movies go, of course, I'm glad they're successful. It's a fun show, and I enjoy it very much. It's an excellent situation for having fun."
Gomez, indeed, is a wonderfully hammy role, and Julia plays it with a remarkable combination of cartoonishness and class. "With Gomez, my director, Barry Sonnenfield, would usually say, 'Go all the way! You can't go far enough!' But," says Julia, smiling, recognizing his larger-than-life tendencies, "I don't agree with that. I can go far enough!" he jokes. "Luckily, with Gomez you can go further than with most [roles]."
And Julia goes pretty far with his roles, whether as the chummy, gregarious drug-runner of Tequila Sunrise (1988), the coolly slick lawyer of Presumed Innocent (1990), or the tortured political prisoner Valentin in Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985). Each has a palpable passion that seeps off the screen.
In person, on the other hand, Julia seeps relaxation. Looking like any other pleasant, comfortable, 53-year-old family man — his large eyes cheery and soulful, his full head of hair a stew of black and gray — Julia is upbeat about the new film, but otherwise subdued.
He was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where his father, a one-time engineer, opened a successful restaurant called The Chicken Inn, where, says Julia, he introduced pizza to the island. "He got the idea from traveling in New York when pizzas were just starting to be sold there, too, in the late '40s." Though his father passed away, the restaurant still exists, leased to different owners.
Julia himself came to the land of pizza in 1967, after having graduated from the University of Puerto Rico and performing in many amateur productions — and at a club where he was seen by actor Orson Bean (now of CBS's Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman), who urged him to try making it in New York. Julia wound up under the wing of the late Joseph Papp, director of the New York Shakespeare Festival, and began a long and fruitful stage career, including a quartet of Tony Award nominations.
"I always wanted to be doing theater," Julia muses. "If a film came along and I auditioned for it and got it, then fine. But I would always come back to New York to do theater."
It may be a while before that happens — he's currently in negotiations for four movie projects, including playing artist Diego Rivera in a planned Frida Kahlo biography, The Two Fridas, to be directed by Luis Valdez (La Bamba).
In the meantime, Julia remains in New York, near his beloved theater, along with his wife of 17 years, former dancer Merel Poloway, and their sons, Raul Sigmund III and Benjamin Rafael. And as much as he can, he'll keep mixing his roles between the silly and the serious, as in art-house movies like Romero (1989) and The Penitant (1988).
"I like entertainment just for the sake of it," Julia says. "But also I like seeing an audience leaving the theater with something more than just a bellyful of popcorn."
ACCLAIMED STAGE ACTOR FINDS FAME AS PATRIARCH OF ADDAMS FAMILY
BYLINE: FRANK LOVECE, NEA
He's creepy, but not particularly kooky or ooky. And while we perhaps might be speaking of Othello — one of the many Shakespearean characters Raul Julia has played to acclaim on the New York stage — we refer, of course, to Julia's inimitable Gomez Addams.
After a broad, distinguished theater career and charismatic roles in many movies, Julia has found his biggest audience as patriarch of the dryly comic ghouls of Addams Family Values, the sequel to last year's hit, The Addams Family. Based, like the 1960s TV series, on the late Charles Addams's long-running cartoons for The New Yorker magazine, the film reunites Julia, Anjelica Huston, Christopher Lloyd and Christina Ricci as members of the horrific but loving family.
"Well, y'know," says Julia gamely, "each situation is interesting for its own sake. And as far as the Addams Family movies go, of course, I'm glad they're successful. It's a fun show, and I enjoy it very much. It's an excellent situation for having fun."
Gomez, indeed, is a wonderfully hammy role, and Julia plays it with a remarkable combination of cartoonishness and class. "With Gomez, my director, Barry Sonnenfield, would usually say, 'Go all the way! You can't go far enough!' But," says Julia, smiling, recognizing his larger-than-life tendencies, "I don't agree with that. I can go far enough!" he jokes. "Luckily, with Gomez you can go further than with most [roles]."
And Julia goes pretty far with his roles, whether as the chummy, gregarious drug-runner of Tequila Sunrise (1988), the coolly slick lawyer of Presumed Innocent (1990), or the tortured political prisoner Valentin in Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985). Each has a palpable passion that seeps off the screen.
In person, on the other hand, Julia seeps relaxation. Looking like any other pleasant, comfortable, 53-year-old family man — his large eyes cheery and soulful, his full head of hair a stew of black and gray — Julia is upbeat about the new film, but otherwise subdued.
He was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where his father, a one-time engineer, opened a successful restaurant called The Chicken Inn, where, says Julia, he introduced pizza to the island. "He got the idea from traveling in New York when pizzas were just starting to be sold there, too, in the late '40s." Though his father passed away, the restaurant still exists, leased to different owners.
Julia himself came to the land of pizza in 1967, after having graduated from the University of Puerto Rico and performing in many amateur productions — and at a club where he was seen by actor Orson Bean (now of CBS's Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman), who urged him to try making it in New York. Julia wound up under the wing of the late Joseph Papp, director of the New York Shakespeare Festival, and began a long and fruitful stage career, including a quartet of Tony Award nominations.
"I always wanted to be doing theater," Julia muses. "If a film came along and I auditioned for it and got it, then fine. But I would always come back to New York to do theater."
It may be a while before that happens — he's currently in negotiations for four movie projects, including playing artist Diego Rivera in a planned Frida Kahlo biography, The Two Fridas, to be directed by Luis Valdez (La Bamba).
In the meantime, Julia remains in New York, near his beloved theater, along with his wife of 17 years, former dancer Merel Poloway, and their sons, Raul Sigmund III and Benjamin Rafael. And as much as he can, he'll keep mixing his roles between the silly and the serious, as in art-house movies like Romero (1989) and The Penitant (1988).
"I like entertainment just for the sake of it," Julia says. "But also I like seeing an audience leaving the theater with something more than just a bellyful of popcorn."
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