Addams Family Coming to Broadway

They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky, they’re altogether ooky, and the Addams Family is coming straight to Broadway in 2010! Just announced, the ’60s television show The Addams Family is being adapted into a Broadway musical, set to open in Chicago for two months before officially moving to Broadway in April of 2010. As of now, the show will feature Cheers/Frasier actress Bebe Neuwirth as Morticia Addams and Producers star Nathan Lane as Morticia’s husband Gomez Addams, and the rest of this frightening cast includes Kevin Chamberlain as Uncle Fester, Jackie Hoffman as Grandma and Zachary James as Lurch. The plot for The Addams Family Broadway musical will focus on Wednesday Addam’s life as an adolescent and on finding a boyfriend, and this spooky comedy is sure to turn heads on the musical front.

The Addams Family began as the creation of cartoonist Charles Addams, whose comic strip ran in The New Yorker in the ’60s before becoming an animated television series in the ’70s. Its overwhelming popularity led the production to become a box office smash in the 1990s starring Anjelica Huston, Christopher Lloyd and the late Raul Julia, and this Halloween favorite will now become a big stage favorite, featuring music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa.

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