Articles Tagged With: The Addams Family

*snapsnap* The Addams Family at Tidewater Players 📷 Cathy Herlinger

Live Before They Die And Dance: An Interview with The Guytons on Being Gomez & Morticia Addams

Interviews May 12, 2023 Amanda N. Gunther

Let’s live before we die, let’s laugh before we cry— let’s hold each other close and dance! And there couldn’t be a more in-love, truly romantic couple filling out the roles of Morticia and Gomez Addams than Michele and Greg Guyton. They’re so goofy and crazy about one another, the whole interview was almost a half an hour, 20 minutes of which was the pair of them laughing and canoodling and laughing while canoodling. Which is why they’re a perfect match for these star roles in The Addams Family musical opening at Tidewater Players in Havre de Grace.

Pulled In A New Direction: An Interview with Wednesday & Pugsley for Tidewater Players’ Addams Family

Interviews May 2, 2023 Amanda N. Gunther

Puppy dogs with droopy faces…

Unicorns with dancing mice…

Sunrise in wide open spaces…

Disney World— I’ll go there twice!

Maybe don’t go there twice, but consider going to see Tidewater Players’ production of The Addams Family? They’re creepy and kooky…and all that jazz… and we’ve got two of them— Wednesday and Pugsley here to chit chat about the process and give you some doom and gloom— I mean,

The Addams Family at Children’s Theatre of Annapolis

Reviews November 5, 2021 Amanda N. Gunther

Ba-da-da-dum. *snapsnap*

Ba-da-da-dum. Ba-da-da-dum. Ba-da-da-dum. *snapsnap*

Spooky season my be over according to the calendar, but it’s just beginning over at Children’s Theatre of Annapolis as they bring to life their long-awaited and highly anticipated production of The Addams Family. *snapsnap* Directed by Atticus Boidy with Musical Direction by Emily L. Sergo and Choreography by Kristin Rigsby, you’re in for a creepy and kooky,

The Addams Family at Street Lamp Community Theatre

Reviews October 3, 2019 Mark Briner

The
little black box theatre that could, Street Lamp Productions in Rising Sun, closes
out their 4th season with a fan-favorite show that had a short life on Broadway
but has quickly become a modern classic staple of community and regional
seasons, The Addams Family, directed by Jamie and Andrew DiMaio.

Amanda N. Gunther | TheatreBloom

Marshall
Brickman and Rick Elice’s book may be short on Addams’ culture (with 80 years’
history of rich Addams pop culture to draw upon—the original New Yorker comic
panels,

The Addams Family at Hereford Community Theater

Reviews August 16, 2019 Amanda N. Gunther

It’s just a simple dinner. What
could go wrong? Famous last words by the delightfully unsuspecting,
crazier-than-you Wednesday Addams right before chaos and calamity are unleashed
upon her “meet-the-parents” style dinner. The story may be a familiar one, since
there’s hardly a company left who hasn’t produced Andrew Lippa’s The Addams
Family, unless of course they’re a brand new company. As it happens, the
Hereford Community Theater is exactly that. In their inaugural debut,

The Addams Family at Silhouette Stages

Reviews October 13, 2018 Amanda N. Gunther

Move toward the darkness.

Don’t avoid despair.

Creep into Silhouette Stages

And you’ll see what’s there!

They’ve got family first— and family last— and family through and through! They’ve got The Addams…and now they’re waiting just for you! After its run on the circuit of community and professional houses all over the tristate area, The Addams Family musical has risen from the dead in time for Halloween and is taking up a three-week residence at Silhouette Stages.

The Addams Family at Phoenix Festival Theatre

Reviews September 26, 2018 Mark Briner

Phoenix Festival Theatre at Harford Community College closes out their 2018 season with a fan-favorite show that had a short life on Broadway but has quickly become a modern classic staple of community and regional seasons, The Addams Family, directed by Liz Boyer-Hunnicutt and James Hunnicutt.

It’s easy to see why New York critics reacted so harshly. Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice’s book is ultimately unsure of what it wants to be.

The Addams Family at Tantallon Community Players

Reviews September 26, 2018 Rachel Zirkin Duda

They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky – and in this case, they’re altogether entertaining! The Addams Family (created by author Charles Addams,) a somewhat unusual clan who were introduced in a comic strip, segued into television in the 1960’s and onto movie screens in the 1990’s have now made their way onto the stage in musical form – and they are just as outrageous as ever. With a stellar cast and brilliant direction by Jonathan C.

Helen Hayes Nominee David James Speaks on His Fifth Nomination

Interviews May 18, 2016 Amanda N. Gunther

The 32nd Annual Helen Hayes Awards is just around the corner celebrating live professional theatre of all shapes and sizes in the nation’s capital city of Washington DC. This year’s ceremony will be presented at the historic Lincoln Theatre on Monday evening May 23, where 236 nominees are being honored, representing 202 eligible productions produced in 2015. In a TheatreBloom exclusive interview, we’ve taken a few quick moments with nominee David James (nominated in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Musical— Helen Production,

Review: The Addams Family at Children’s Playhouse of Maryland

Reviews May 8, 2016 Amanda N. Gunther

Crazy is underrated. Normal is an illusion. What’s normal for the spider is a calamity for the fly, and what’s crazy for normal folk is just the basic happenings of everyday life for the crazies, like the gloom and doom inside the mansion in central park. Closing out the 2015/2016 season, The Children’s Playhouse of Maryland delivers a creepy and kooky performance, with all of the iconic Charles Addams’ characters alive in their shades of gray on the lecture hall stage in The Addams Family musical.

Review: The Addams Family at Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre

Reviews August 8, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

They’re crazier than you. That’s just the overview. And nothing up ‘til now has proved me wrong. With their wall-climbing spiders, creepy set, and kooky performers, the Annapolis Summer Garden is proving black is the new cool with their current production of The Addams Family. Directed by Debbie Barber-Eaton, with Musical Direction by David Merrill, this spooky production is anything but normal. And that’s perfectly fine as normal is relative— what’s normal for the spider is a calamity for the fly!

The cast in its entirety of 1776 at Toby's Dinner Theatre

Vote Yes: Inside Independence Hall with MaryKate Brouillet and Santina Maiolatesi

Interviews June 6, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

Pins. Saltpeter. Does love and marriage have a place in pre-revolutionary America? One had better hope so otherwise Abigail Adams and Martha Jefferson will serve no purpose in Peter Stone and Sherman Edwards’ 1776. In the sixth installment of Vote Yes: Inside Independence Hall, TheatreBloom sits down with Santina Maiolatesi and MaryKate Brouillet, the only two female performers in 1776 to find out what it’s like to be a part of the independency revolution as a woman.

Vote Yes: Inside Independence Hall with David James and Matthew Hirsh

Interviews May 6, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

Hey, hey! Momma, look sharp. For you might just find two of Toby’s cast members of their current production of 1776 sitting down with TheatreBloom to talk about Independence Hall from the inside out. In Part Two of Inside Independence Hall, we sit down with Matthew Hirsh and David James to discuss the importance of the battlefield briefs being delivered to congress as they debate on the most important decision of our country’s history.

Review: The Addams Family at Dundalk Community Theatre

Reviews May 6, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

They’re creepy and they’re kooky! Mysterious and ookey! They’re all together spooky— and now they’re rising up from the dead over at Dundalk Community Theatre. Closing out the 2014-2015 season, DCT presents The Addams Family. All the rage in theatres across the state of Maryland, the black-clad family is putting the fun in dysfunctional as they take to the stage. Iconic characters, memorable musical numbers composed by the infamous Andrew Lippa,

Let’s Not Talk About Anything Else But Fester: An Interview with the first Female Uncle Fester

Interviews May 1, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

It’s creepy and it’s kooky! Mysterious and spooky! All-together ookey, that’s The Addams Family! Now a major hit musical that is playing absolutely everywhere, it’s settling into Dundalk Community Theatre for a brief two weekend spring run. But DCT has something unusual, something unique, something very Addams. The line that describes Uncle Fester in this musical, “what could a fat bald person of no specific sexuality know about love?” And DCT has taken a leap on that line,

Move Toward the Darkness: Part 7 Meet Gomez Addams

Interviews April 14, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

It’s family first and family last and family by and by! When you’re an Addams? You do what Addams’ do or die! Finishing out the Move Toward the Darkness interviews, we bring the series to a close with the patriarch of the family, Gomez Florencia Addams. Toby’s Co-Artistic Director is back to the stage after nearly a year’s acting hiatus and is loving every minute of what this creepy and kooky papa character has to offer.

Move Toward the Darkness: Part 6 Meet Morticia Addams

Interviews April 6, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

Oh she of skin so pale, eyes so black, and dress cut down to Venezuela; Morticia Addams is muddling through plums as she discovers that not each husband is a gem! Fortunately, death is just around the corner and she’s happy being both the mourned and mourner! Settling in for the penultimate piece of the Move Toward the Darkness interview series, we sit down with Priscilla Cuellar and discover what life is like as Morticia Addams in the Toby’s Family Household.

Move Toward the Darkness: Part 5 Meet Wednesday and Lucas

Interviews March 18, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

A secret in the house: a girl, a boy, a ring! Wednesday’s growing up— she’ll be Thursday before you know it! And she’s got herself a secret! His name Lucas Beineke and he comes from the “Normies.” Watch out, Addams family, there’s a whole lot of normal coming your way! In Part 5 of “Move Toward the Darkness” we sit down with MaryKate Brouillet and AJ Whittenberger to psychoanalyze the deep dark hole that is the love between Wednesday Addams and Lucas Beineke.

Move Toward the Darkness: Part 4 Meet the Beinekes

Interviews March 3, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

They’re normal people, not like you, not like me. Well, not exactly normal. One’s uptight and really boring, and the other one has rhyming poems that just sprout up through her whenever she feels stressed or blessed. But at least they’re not zombie butlers or dating the moon, right? In Part 4 of the Move Toward the Darkness interview series, we meet the Beineke Family— Mal and Alice— played by Darren McDonnell and Elizabeth Rayca respectively.

Move Toward the Darkness Part 3: Meet Grandma Addams

Interviews February 25, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

Living…dead…and…undecided! Every member of the Addams Family clan is welcome in this creepy and kooky interview series. And Grandma Addams is definitely on the undecided line of the family fence. Why, they aren’t even sure whose mother she is! In Part 3 of the Move Toward the Darkness Interview Series, veteran of the stage David James sits down with TheatreBloom to discuss his role in The Addams Family musical at Toby’s Dinner Theatre.

Move Toward the Darkness Part 2: Meet Lurch

Interviews February 22, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

You rang? Though you won’t hear the iconic TV series line from this butler, Lurch is still a prominent feature in The Addams Family musical over at Toby’s Dinner Theatre. Continuing on in Part 2 of the “Move Toward the Darkness” interview series, we are introduced to seasoned stage veteran David Bosley-Reynolds, who takes on the zombie-butler role with a unique panache all his own.

Let’s start off by introducing our readers to you.

Move Toward the Darkness Part 1: Meet Addams ensemble Member Julia Lancione

Interviews February 17, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

When you’re an Addams you need to have a taste for death! And there is plenty to taste over at Toby’s Dinner Theatre with their regional premier of Andrew Lippa’s The Addams Family musical. In a highly comical musical that reanimates the classic comic strip characters, this brilliant production sends the message to embrace your inner darkness and enjoy the world outside the boundaries of normal. What is normal anyway? In an exclusive series entitled “Move Toward the Darkness” readers of TheatreBloom will delve into the darkness with the cast of The Addams Family and find out just what being a part of this creepy and kooky production is like!

Review: The Addams Family at Toby’s Dinner Theatre

Reviews February 14, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

Full Disclosure: The Addams Family has risen up from the shadows and gloom and descended upon the stage of Toby’s Dinner Theatre. This wickedly entertaining new musical comedy is making its regional premier in the round; a tour de force of hilarious comedy, intoxicating dancing, and the creepiest of kooks all on one stage! Directed and Choreographed by Mark Minnick, with Musical Direction by Ross Scott Rawlings, this charming, feel-good family fun musical is a tremendous success with extraordinary talent to be enjoyed all evening long.

WATCH Award Nominations

News January 18, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

It’s that time of year, folks! The Washington Area Theatre Community Honors have come around again to honor all of the truly exceptional theatre being performed in community venues across the Washington DC and surrounding metropolitan area. The 2014 award nominations were presented live this evening at The Birchmere in Alexandria, VA.

There were 111 different productions– 34 musicals and 77 plays– adjudicated over in the 2014 theatrical season. 31 community theatre companies participated in WATCH adjudication in 2014.

Every Member of the Kensington Arts Theatre Addams Family Clan: The Dead- Meet the Addams

Interviews November 7, 2014 Amanda N. Gunther

Moving further toward the darkness in Part II of TheatreBloom’s 3-part family interview series with the Kensington Arts Theatre’s projection of The Addams Family, we meet The Addam as only we can meet them! Representing the “dead” in the trio of “Living…dead…and undecided…” Morticia, Gomez, Wednesday and Pugsley all come out to play in a creepy and kooky fashion. Let’s hear what they have to say.

We’ll start off with introductions,

Every Member of the Kensington Arts Theatre Addams Family Clan: The Living- Meet the Beinekes

Interviews, Uncategorized November 3, 2014 Amanda N. Gunther

Move toward the darkness and embrace your inner Addams! In a three-part family interview series, the readers of TheatreBloom get to go in-depth with the “living”, “dead”, and “undecided” members of Kensington Arts Theatre’s production of The Addams Family musical. Find out what it’s like to be normal, what it’s like to be an Addams, and read some of the cast’s “full disclosure” confessions! We start with the clan of the living,

Review: The Addams Family at Kensington Arts Theatre

Reviews November 3, 2014 Amanda N. Gunther

It’s family first and family last and family by and by! And the Kensington Arts Theatre knows all about families of all varieties as they present their fall musical, featuring one of the creepiest and kookiest families of all times! Andrew Lippa’s The Addams Family comes to the KAT stage under the Direction of Craig Pettinati and Musical Direction of Stuart Y. Weich. With Wednesday all grown-up and in love with an outsider,

Review: The Addams Family at The Milburn Stone Theatre

Reviews October 5, 2014 Amanda N. Gunther

Living. Dead. Or undecided. Family is still family, and when you’re an Addams, you’re obligated to the clan! It’s time to catch a case of the creepies and the kookies up at the Milburn Stone Theatre as they present the North East Maryland premier of The Addams Family the musical. Directed by S. Lee Lewis with Musical Direction by Shane Jensen, this all-too familiar musical with Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lippa and Book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice is pleasing audiences up and down the coast.