The musical begins with our beloved Addamses behaving strangely, as per, er, normal.

The difference is that Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, Pugsley, Uncle Fester, Grandma and Lurch are naturally more odd and more bizarre - in fact, larger than life,” said Elice. “So many of the people we meet in our daily lives are a bit odd, just a little bizarre. “The main thing about them is what we liked to call the “Addams Inversion” - that is, what we might find repulsive, they find cuddly what we might find sad, makes them happy, audiences seem to embrace this behaviour, because it mirrors the audience’s darker side and gives it expression,” said Brickman in an e-mail interview with TODAY. They are eccentric, oddly-shaped and some of their members look curiously like dead people - but just admit it, the Addams Family reminds you of your own relatives (not referring to you, Ma).Īnd even if they don’t remind you of your monstrous brother or your aunt’s weird penchant for black, eerie outfits, there’s no denying that audiences absolutely love the family’s bizarre and often macabre characters, created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams in the 1930s for The New Yorker.Īfter numerous adaptations for television, film and even video games, the offbeat extended family of Gomez and Morticia Addams have finally been given singing voices in the hit Broadway musical comedy The Addams Family, written by Jersey Boys authors Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice.

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