The Addams Family (musical)
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| A New Musical Comedy | |
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| Music | Andrew Lippa |
| Lyrics | Andrew Lippa |
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Marshall Brickman Rick Elice |
| Basis | Comic strip by Charles Addams |
| Productions | 2009 Chicago tryout 2010 Broadway 2011 US Tour 2013 Sydney 2013 Buenos Aires 2014 Merzig 2014 Bremen 2014 Tokyo 2014 Prague 2014 Mexico 2015 Chicago 2017 Kaunas 2017 UK Tour |
| The Addams Family (Cast Recording of the Musical) |
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| Soundtrack album by Andrew Lippa | |
| Released | June 8, 2010 |
| Recorded | April 19, 2010 |
| Label | Decca Broadway |
| Producer | Andrew Lippa |
The Addams Family is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa and the book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. The show is based upon The Addams Family characters created by Charles Addams in his single-panel gag cartoons, which depict a ghoulish American family with an affinity for all things macabre. Numerous film and television adaptations of Addams' cartoons exist, but the musical, which is the first stage show based on the characters, is based upon the cartoons rather than the television and film characters.The Addams Family is the first production produced by Elephant Eye Theatricals.
After a tryout in Chicago in 2009, the musical opened on Broadway in April 2010. The original cast featured Nathan Lane as Gomez and Bebe Neuwirth as Morticia. An cast recording was released on June 8, 2010.
The Broadway production closed on December 31, 2011. A revised national tour of North America began in September 2011. The production has won numerous awards including the Drama League Award and Drama Desk Award, as well as the Chicago production winning the Jeff Award, and has been nominated for several others.
The UK premiere of The Addams Family was announced on 5 September 2016, and will open at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre in Edinburgh in April 2017 before embarking on a major UK tour.
In 2007, the producers announced that they had obtained the rights from the Tee and Charles Addams Foundation to create a musical adaptation of The Addams Family for Broadway, and they anticipated an opening during the 2009–2010 season after an out-of-town tryout. This was the first time that Charles Addams' comic creations were licensed to serve as the basis for a stage production. The musical's lead producers were Stuart Oken and Roy Furman. In addition to Oken and Furman, Vivek Tiwary also joined The Addams Family musical's team of producers. The Addams Foundation reportedly retained control over the show's content and insisted that, instead of drawing the plot from The Addams Family television series or films, the production team devise an original musical based solely on Addams' cartoons.
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