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PHOTO EXCLUSIVE: Chaplin Tattoos, Midnight Tech and Mustache Maintenance! A Week at The Muny With Addams Family Star Rob McClure
PHOTO EXCLUSIVE: Chaplin Tattoos, Midnight Tech and Mustache Maintenance! A Week at The Muny With Addams Family Star Rob McClure
Tony Award nominee Rob McClure, who stars as Gomez Addams in The Muny production of The Addams Family , takes Playbill readers behind the scenes at the famed outdoor venue where 7 shows are staged back-to-back every summer (with 11 total days of rehearsal each).
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Muny cast vans pick up at 10:40am
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Let's go rehearse!
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The beautiful Muny front of house
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Welcome!
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Where the Muny magic happens
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Dan Deluca getting some "nache"
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Who doesn't love an Egg McMuny! And how about those prices!
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Don't forget to pre-order lunch!
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In the a.m., you can place your lunch order, and have it ready at lunchtime!
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Dan and I enjoying our McMuny's.
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Julia Murney of Seussical + I reunite after doing Shrek here last summer
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The Muny's painting deck. It feels like the MGM backlot!
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A fine example of Muny artistry
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Our Big 'ol House!
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Some of our huge set!
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The famous Muny tree growing thru the stage in the wings just off left.
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Look at the tree!
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Take in the view. No place like it. 10:50am.
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Such a wide house!
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Not a bad seat in the house
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Hello out there!
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Go team!
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Tim Hughes and our extraordinary ensemble
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West Platform
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Love it here!
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The Creative Team
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Gee. I wonder what show this is from.
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Tim Hughes and me. 2 of 13 people with the Broadway Chaplin tattoo.
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bestie Tim Hughes
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Getting ready for our last run thru-offstage.
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The wildly talented Muny Teens!
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Fight Call!
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They're creepy and they're kooky.
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Gomez + Morticia. Rob + Jenny Powers. Last Year's Bert + Mary Poppins. ( Photobomb by Lurch-Bill Ryall)
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Cookie Butter, a tech essential
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Michael Harp (Pugsley) Love that kid!
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Afternoon rehearsal 11-6pm
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The Ensemble - it's hot!
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The impeccable Director + SM Team w/ Steve Rosen & Me.
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Our music team. Ben + Joe.
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John Scherer, Kay Trinidad, Emma Wagner on a '10'
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The "Shop"
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Steven Wallem, John Tartaglia + friends rehearsing Seussical
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Lunch time! Reuniting with Honeymoon castmate Ray Lee!
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Lunch time!
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Lemonade, Tuna melt, + watermelon. Yum.
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Friend and Seussical star Kirsten Wyatt!
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Lunch time-2:30pm.
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Michael Harp (Pugsley) working on the infamous 'West Platform'
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Dance Notes from Choreo - Vince Pesce
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Sara Kapner (Wednesday)
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Our amazing team!
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Post-nap Lucky Charms
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Time to clean the stache before Tech. 10pm.
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'Stache' Maintenance
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Gomez stache maintenance!
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Dan DeLuca, Mike Isaacson, Me, Joe Ortmeyer
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Me + Ali (ASM) - she got me a new water bottle!
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Dressing room.
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What a moon! It was a "Supermoon!"
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For 6 years, it's become a tradition of mine to 'run the theatre' and touch every seat before each peformance. A 40 minute task at The Muny.
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Let's do this.
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The Muny's 11,000 seat house at midnight. So many seats to run!
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Dan Deluca might have regretted joining my running tradition.
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Me and Ali Kochman (ASM) - She brought my water post-run
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Stretch it out!
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My Gomez costume
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Ghostly make-up.
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Gomez's rockin' shoes
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Bedazzle!
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I have a soft spot for suspenders
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First time in costume!
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Sara Kapner (Wednesday) + me
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Oh! There's my character!
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Cory Lingner + Austin Jacobs
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Me + fellow Chaplin Alum + bestie, Tim Hughes.
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The hilarious Jen Cody (Grandma) and me.
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The delightful Hollis Resnik + John Scherer
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Puggles!
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Gomez, Grandma + Pugsley.
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Dan Deluca (Lucas) + Sara Kapner (Wed) Awww!
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Costume Parade!
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Gomez Florencia Addams
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Three of the 'Muny Teens' - They are amazing!
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Full out at 4 am!
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SWEATY!
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My dressing room - Muny tradition - Sign the walls
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My dressing room predecessor, Kate Rockwell
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More signatures from those who've come before
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Kevin Gray. We miss you.
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Costume Design
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Marcia Milgrom Dodge, Jenny Powers, Jen Cody, John Scherer. 'We did it!'
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Bonnie Panson (PSM) and prop dog 'Boom' named after the huge Muny 'boom doors.'
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We got thru midnight tech! 5am- who wants pancakes?
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Post-tech Pancakes 5:20am
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What a deal!
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Uncle Bill's Pancake House- let's eat!
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'Three Little Pigs'
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Sara Kapner (Wednesday) indulging in post-tech 5am pancakes
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Yummmm!
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Sorry, I couldn’t decide.
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Luckily, no divas denied me access.
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Then back the next day at 2:30 for a sitz-probe. And we're off and running! If you're in the area, come down and see us!
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Directed by Tony nominee Marcia Milgrom Dodge , The Addams Family will run through July 20. The musical features a score by Lippa and a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice .
The Addams Family bowed on Broadway in 2010. It earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Original Score.
The Muny staging is choreographed by Vince Pesce , with musical direction by Ben Whiteley.
The principal cast also features Jenny Powers as Morticia, John Scherer as Mal Beineke, Hollis Resnik as Alice Beineke, Steve Rosen as Uncle Fester, Jennifer Cody as Grandma, William Ryall as Lurch, Dan DeLuca as Lucas Beineke, Sara Kapner as Wednesday Addams and Michael Harp as Pugsley Addams.
The Muny production has scenic design by Michael Schweikardt, sound design by Jason Krueger, lighting design by Nathan Scheuer, video design by Seth Jackson and costume design by Andrea Lauer.
According to the Muny, "Charles Addams ’ classical and creepy characters – Gomez, Morticia, Pugsley, Lurch and even Uncle Fester – take the stage this summer in a riotous Broadway musical. In a wicked twist, Wednesday Addams, the ultimate daughter of darkness, has fallen for a perfectly respectable and sweet young man."
For more information call (314) 361-1900 or visit muny.org .