MARQUEE VALUE: The Addams Family at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

By Matthew Blank
16 Dec 2009

MARQUEE VALUE: The Addams Family at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

Production: The Addams Family, music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa, book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, directed and designed by Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch, choreographed by Sergio Trujillo, starring Nathan Lane, Bebe Neuwirth, Terrence Mann, Carolee Carmello, Kevin Chamberlin, Jackie Hoffman, Zachary James, Adam Riegler and Krysta Rodriquez.

Previews: March 4, 2010

Opens: April 8, 2010

Venue: Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 205 West 46th Street, New York, NY 10036


Following an out-of-town tryout in Chicago, this new musical based upon Charles Addams' beloved characters comes to Broadway.

The producers have characterized the new story this way: "Storm clouds are gathering over the Addams Family manse. Daughter Wednesday, now 18, is experiencing a sensation that surprises and disgusts her — caring about another person. Young Pugsley, jealous of his sister's attention, begs her to keep torturing him, severely, while mother Morticia, conflicted over her daughter’s lurch into womanhood, fears being upstaged and discarded…like yesterday's road kill. All the while, father Gomez — master of the revels, mischievous and oblivious as ever — would prefer everything and everyone remain as it is. But when outsiders come to dinner, the events of one night will change forever this famously macabre family — a family so very different from your own…or maybe not."





Photos by Matthew Blank