The Addams Family (Musical)

Musical dates
Title:	The Addams Family
Original title:	The Addams Family
Original language:	English
Music:	Andrew Lippa
Book:	Marshall Brickman , Rick Elice
Lyrics:	Andrew Lippa
Literary source:	The Addams Family comic book series by Charles Addams
Premiere:	2009 (tryout), 2010
Place of premiere:	Chicago (tryout), Broadway
Playing time:	about 3 hours
Roles / people
Gomez Adams Morticia Addams Wednesday Addams Uncle Fester (German: Onkel Fester) Grandma Pugsley Addams Lurch Lucas Beinke Mal beinke Alice Beinke

The Addams Family is a musical by Andrew Lippa that premiered in Chicago in 2009.

Performances

In 2009, Andrew Lippa's musical The Addams Family premiered as a tryout in Chicago and a year later on Broadway , where it was performed en-suite more than 700 times. The German-language premiere took place in 2014 in the Zeltpalast in Merzig in Saarland. Then the musical was performed in Bremen . In the 2018 season of the Gandersheim Cathedral Festival , the musical saw fourteen performances. The musical was performed in numerous other countries around the world, including Australia and Russia.

Plot overview

In contrast to the original cartoons as well as the films and series, Wednesday Addams is no longer a child, but an eighteen-year-old girl who has found her great love Lucas Knieke. She confides in her father that she wants to marry Lucas. He promises her not to confess to her mother. The problem is that the relationship between the strict Morticia and the loving Gomez is also heavily built on keeping no secrets from each other. Likewise, Gomez has to make friends himself with the thought that his daughter has grown up and wants to cut the cord. Luca's family is finally invited to dinner by the Addams and the situation seems to escalate completely, as the two families are completely different. In the end, both families can reconcile and marry Lucas and Wednesday.

occupation

role	Cast on Broadway	Occupation in Merzig	Occupation in Wiesbaden	Occupation in Koblenz
Gomez Addams	Nathan Lane	Uwe Kroeger	Tim Speckhart	Sven Berkau
Morticia Addams	Bebe Neuwirth	Edda Petri	Felicitas Geipel	Eva Maria Nikolaus / Sophie Hein
Wednesday Addams	Krysta Rodriguez	Jana Stelley	Maja Dickmann	Lena Fuhrmann
Uncle Fester	Kevin Chamberlin	Enrico DePieri	Peter Emig	Dustin semolina
Grandma	Jackie Hoffman	Anne Welte	Lisa Krämer	Henry Marx
Pugsley Addams	Adam Riegler	Justin Natale	Christian Sattler	Tim Sauerwein, Kilian Lohmann, Dominik Klein
Lurch	Zachary James	Gerhard Karzel	Meik Burs	Jakob Jösch
Lucas Beinke	Wesley Taylor	Dominik Hees	David Rothe	Paul Mannebach
Mal beinke	Terrence man	Ethan Freeman	Benjamin Geipel	Roman turnip
Alice Beinke	Carolee Carmello	April Hailer	Constanze Konacheck	Lena alarm clock

music

In 2014 the German version of the musical was released as a live recording. The songs to complement the dialogues and game plot of the musical were all written by Andrew Lippa. A Broadway CD was also recorded and released on April 19, 2010.

The songs on the CD of the German cast can be heard in the following order:

CD1 (total: 43:50 min)

1. Overture - (Instrumental)
2. Are You an Addams - (Full Cast)
3. One problem - (Gomez, Fester, Wednesday)
4. Fester's Manifesto - (Fester)
5. The two things - (Gomez)
6. Wednesday is growing up - (Gomez)
7. The three things - (Gomez)
8. I'm stuck - (Gomez)
9. New Paths - (Wednesday)
10. The Four Things - (Wednesday)
11. A normal night - (Ensemble)
12. Talking about love - (Fester)
13. Talking about love recapitulation - (Fester)
14. Secrets - (Morticia, Alice)
15. What if (Gomez) - (Gomez)
16. What if (Pugsley) - (Pugsley, Grandma)
17. Tell the Truth (Part 1) - (Ensemble)
18. The wait - (Alice)
19. Tell the Truth (Part 2) - (Ensemble)

CD2 (total: 37:23 min)

1. Opening Act 2 - (Instrumental)
2. Death is around the corner - (Morticia)
3. Says the moon 'I love you' - (Solid)
4. Right Wrong - (Gomez)
5. Crazier Than You - (Wednesday, Lucas, Mal, Alice)
6. Not today - (Gomez)
7. Live now and intensely - (Gomez)
8. Tango de amor - (Instrumental)
9. Dive down into the dark - (Ensemble)
10. Bows - (Instrumental)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Addams Family celebrates its German premiere in Merzig ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Saarländischer Rundfunk, August 20, 2014.
2. ↑ The Addams Family - The Plot .