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The Addams Family

The Addams Family

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The Addams Family is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa and 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.

Opened
2010
Performances
722
Type
Musical
Era
Modern
Music: Andrew LippaLyrics: Andrew LippaBook: Marshall Brickman, Rick Elice

Productions2 on Broadway

2010 Lunt-Fontanne Theatre Original. April 8, 2010 · Jerry Zaks, Phelim McDermott 722 performances
2024 London Palladium Original. March 10, 2022

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.

Recordings 3 albums held

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17 passages naming The Addams Family, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.

But he was increasingly noticed for dramatic work including Mamet’s November (2008), Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (2009), Douglas Carter Beane’s The Nance (2013), O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh (2012, Chicago’s Goodman Theatre; 2015, Brooklyn Academy of Music), and Kushner’s Angels in America (2017, London; 2018, Broadway)… book:the-stephen-sondheim-encyclopedia-rick-pender-rowman-littlefield-publishing-lanh#p387

Addams Family, The 21, 26, 65, 66, 422-426, 434, 435 book:theatre-world-2009-2010-season-v-66-willis#p480

The Addams Family 725 performances Opened April 8, 2010 Closed December 31, 2011 book:theatre-world-2011-12-season-v-68-willis#p459

Fastest Costume Change: Wednesday from Yellow Dress to Black Dress in our out-of-town tryout. book:the-playbill-broadway-yearbook-june-2009-to-may-2010-sixth-viagas-robert-new-yor#p24

Memorable Note, Fax or Fan Letter: Will you sing at my funeral? Actor Who Has Done the Most Shows in His Career: Merwin Foard Favorite Off-Site Hangout: Kodama, Glass House Tavern, Blue Fin. book:the-playbill-broadway-yearbook-june-2010-to-may-2011-edited-by-robert-viagas-7th#p23

Two little girls dressed as Wednesday Addams and one (R) as Morticia from The Addams Family. book:the-playbill-broadway-yearbook-june-2010-to-may-2011-edited-by-robert-viagas-7th#p415

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