Addams Family to spook Broadway

[Raph's Girl]

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=41617

A large-scale Broadway musical is planned based on the Addams Family cartoons of Charles Addams, aiming for New York's Rialto in the 2009 -'10 season, Variety reported.

Composer-lyricist Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party) is writing the songs; Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice (Jersey Boys) provide the book. Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch, the Improbable Theater founders who created Shockheaded Peter, will direct and design.

Addams' cartoons—about a ghoulish family whose members include father Gomez, mother Morticia, uncle Fester and daughter Wednesday—appeared for more than 50 years in the New Yorker magazine. The cartoons inspired several TV series, including the 1960s live-action situation comedy and a couple of animated series, along with two feature films.

The musical will be based solely on the cartoons, not on the big- or small-screen incarnations. It hasn't yet been determined whether the creatives will be granted permission to include the familiar TV theme song.

[Tinuvielsdreams]

haha I don't know much about Broadway but I do think I would go see this....
Hmmm i just hope they don't have someone running around in a giant hand suit...:P

[AquaParade]

Cool find. Strange too, i was just thinking about the adams family a few days ago for no apparent reason. I guess I was wondering if a remake would roll our way anytime soon, I could definitley picture that happening.

[RAM BAM]

Hmmm i just hope they don't have someone running around in a giant hand suit...:P

Or a big fishing line draped from the rafters!

I can see this sinking like Lord of the Rings in Toronto! :roll:

[Drtooth]

I love the Addams Family, but not enough to want to see this. This could turn out very very cool, or a random pile of crap. Anyway, Broadway producers (and I know little of the subject, thankfully) really can't seem to get anything that ISN'T based off a movie, TV or anything like that nowadays. They all think they can be the next Spamalot or Producers, and come up with garbage based off of random movies like The Wedding Singer and Legally Blonde.