The world’s spookiest and kookiest family has been brought back to life. Morticia, Gomez, Wednesday and Puggsly Addams, together with the rest of their delightful household, are now a Broadway musical, and it is now playing at Sydney’s Capitol Theatre.
The Addams Family was originally created as a series of cartoons for the New Yorker in the 1930s by Charles Addams, and was later turned into a TV series and, more recently, a film. Directed by Broadway legend Jerry Zaks, the musical version goes back for inspiration to those first cartoons, and has an original story by Jersey Boys co-writers Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. Wednesday has fallen in love with a boy from a respectable family and her parents must host a dinner for the boy and his parents.
Starring in the lead roles are Chloe Dallimore, going against type as the family’s matriach, John Waters as husband Gomez, the lover of instruments of torture, Russell Dykstra (Uncle Fester), Ben Hudson (Lurch) and Meredith O’Reilly (Grandma) and there are not one but five performers playing Pugsley . Teagan Wouters has won the role of Wednesday Addams – she studied at the Victorian College of the Arts music theatre stream as well as with Melbourne teacher Robert Sturrock, and was most recently starring as Francine in The Jersey Boys. The cast also includes a large ensemble of dancers.
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