The Addams Family announces full cast

The new musical The Addams Family, based on the bizarre and beloved family of characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams, has announced its complete cast.

The musical, which begins rehearsals on 8 Sep 2009 in New York, will open 8 Apr 2010 at Broadway�s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, following previews from 4 Mar 2010.

The show arrives on the Great White Way following a pre-Broadway engagement at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre in Chicago that begins 13 Nov 2009.

Starring two-time Tony Award winners Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth as 'Gomez' and 'Morticia,' The Addams Family also features two-time Tony Award nominee Terrence Mann as 'Mal Beineke,' two-time Tony Award nominee Carolee Carmello as 'Alice Beineke,' two-time Tony Award nominee Kevin Chamberlin as 'Uncle Fester,' Jackie Hoffman as 'Grandmama,' Zachary James as 'Lurch,' Adam Riegler as 'Pugsley,' Wesley Taylor as 'Lucas Beineke' and Krysta Rodriguez as 'Wednesday.'

The Addams Family ensemble features Merwin Foard, Jim Borstelmann, Erick Buckley, Colin Cunliffe, Rachel de Benedet, Valerie Fagan, Matthew Gumley, Fred Inkley, Morgan James, Clark Johnsen, Barrett Martin, Jessica Lea Patty, Liz Ramos, Samantha Sturm, Charlie Sutton and Alena Watters.

The Addams Family features a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice (librettists of the 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Jersey Boys), music and lyrics by Drama Desk Award-winner Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party), direction and design by Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch (Shockheaded Peter, The Metropolitan Opera's Satyagraha) and choreography by Sergio Trujillo (Next to Normal, Jersey Boys).

The creative team also includes lighting design by two-time Tony Award winner Natasha Katz (The Coast of Utopia, Aida), with sound design by Acme Sound Partners (Tony nomination for In the Heights) and puppetry by acclaimed Obie Award-winning puppeteer Basil Twist.

In this original story, the famously macabre Addams Family is put to the test when outsiders come to dinner, hurling Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, Pugsley, Fester, Grandmama and Lurch headlong into a night that will change the family forever.

In a prolific career spanning six decades, Charles Addams created several thousand cartoons, sketches and drawings, many of which were published in The New Yorker. But it was his creation of characters that came to be known as The Addams Family that brought Addams his greatest acclaim. With a unique style that combined the twisted, macabre and just plain weird with charm, wit and enchantment, Addams' drawings have entertained millions worldwide and served as the inspiration for multiple television series and motion pictures.

The Addams Family is produced by Stuart Oken, Roy Furman, Michael Leavitt and Five Cent Productions, by special arrangement with Elephant Eye Theatrical. Co-producers are Stephen Schuler, Decca Broadway, Scott M. Delman, Stuart Ditsky, Terry Allen Kramer, Stephanie P. McClelland, James L. Nederlander, Eva Price, Jam Theatricals/Mary Lu Roffe, Pittsburgh CLO/Gutterman-Swinsky, Vivek Tiwary/Gary Kaplan, The Weinstein Company/Clarence, LLC and Adam Zotovich/Tribe Theatricals.

Tickets go on sale to the general public on 27 Sep 2009.

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