Book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice; Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lippa
Based on Characters Created by Charles Addams.
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You are parsimoniously invited to an eerie, eccentric evening hosted by the most macabre family in the neighborhood. Wednesday Addams, daughter to the delightfully spooky Gomez and Morticia, has invited her new boyfriend, Lucas, and his parents over for dinner at the Addams Family’s ancestral and ethereal Central Park mansion. There is only one catch, and it’s not the giant octopus skulking in the basement! Lucas is a well-mannered, unostentatious lad from Ohio who doesn’t have a grisly or ghoulish bone in his body. Musical comedy carnage ensues as Gomez tries to persuade the family to act “normal” for Wednesday’s sake while alienating his “Cara Mia,” Morticia. Join Uncle Fester, Grandma, Pugsley, Lurch, and a ghastly ensemble of ancestors as Gomez tries to help his daughter and save his marriage without shattering the phantasmagoric Addams joie de vivre.