The Addams Family

The Addams Family, a new musical, began its pre-Broadway engagement at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre in Chicago. Opening night in the Windy City is Dec. 9. With music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa and a book by...

In this article: Lurch, Rick Elice, Andrew Lippa, Marshall Brickman, Bebe Neuwirth, and Nathan Lane

...took more than a snap of the fingers for its creators The very first cartoon depicting members of what eventually would become the Addams Family appeared in The New Yorker magazine in 1938. Standing at the bottom of a stairway, in the...

In this article: Charles Addams, Uncle Fester, Andrew Lippa, The Addams Family, Broadway, and Addams Family

...the cartoon The creative team of Marshall Brickman, Rick Elice, Julian Crouch, Andrew Lippa, Phelim McDermott and Stuart Oken for "The Addams Family," in the Loop through Jan. 10. It's now in previews at the Oriental Theatre. On a...

In this article: Charles Addams, The Addams Family, Bebe Neuwirth, Andrew Lippa, Marshall Brickman, Rick Elice, and Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane will star as Addams patriarch Gomez in "The Addams Family" in the Loop through Jan. 10. It's now in previews at the Oriental Theatre. (Abel Uribe/Chicago Tribune) For Nathan Lane , the fall of 2003 in Chicago was the happiest...

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Oh hooray, the long awaited stage production of The Addams Family opens to previews tonight. After months of teasing us by telling us that Nathan Lane playing Gomez to Bebe Neuwirth's Morticia, it's finally arrived for it's World...

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...have jumped from the pages of The New Yorker magazine to television, film and - starting Nov. 13 - the American musical theatre. The Addams Family, a new musical, begins a pre-Broadway tryout in Chicago. Tony Award winners Bebe Neuwirth...

In this article: Bebe Neuwirth, Kevin Chamberlin, Charles Addams, Chicago, Jackie Hoffman, Monty Python, and Lurch

...in more than four years." HOLLYWOOD REPORTER • David Ng says he is looking forward to the upcoming Broadway musical version of "The Addams Family," having seen the first photos of the Tony-winning talent in costume. For David, "the...

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When Culture Monster first heard that producers were planning a stage musical of "The Addams Family," we weren't sure if they could pull off the signature ghoulish aesthetic that Charles Addams immortalized in his cartoons in the New...

In this article: Bebe Neuwirth, Nathan Lane, Charles Addams, Los Angeles Times, Ford Center, and Chicago

...2009 Vanity Fair magazine and photographer Mark Seliger brings us our first look at the assembled cast of the new musical The Addams Family. The Addams Family have existed on TV and then in movies but this is the first time the fam has been...

In this article: Jackie Hoffman, Nathan Lane, Bebe Neuwirth, Vanity Fair magazine, Charles Addams, Mark Seliger, Xanadu, and The Munsters

Nathan Lane, looking appropriately dark and mustachioed for his upcoming role as Gomez in "The Addams Family," found himself back in a Chicago theater Wednesday on the eve of a Broadway tryout. The last time Lane was similarly in Chicago...

In this article: Nathan Lane, Chicago, Charles Addams, Uncle Fester, Rick Elice, Andrew Lippa, and Marshall Brickman