The Addams Family: Young@Part

Musical

Writers: Rick Elice Marshall Brickman Andrew Lippa

Overview

Show Information

Music
Lyrics
Based on the Play/Book/Film
The Addams Family
Category
Musical
Number of Acts
1
Genres
Comedy, Fairy Tale/Fantasy, Romance
Settings
Multiple Settings
Time & Place
New York City. The Present.
Cast Size
medium
Orchestra Size
Recording
Dancing
Some Dance
Ideal for
Diverse Cast, Community Theatre, Elementary School, Ensemble Cast, High School, Large Cast, Middle School, Star Vehicle Female, Star Vehicle Male, Theatre For Young Audiences (TYA)
Casting Notes
Mostly male cast
Includes child, early teen, late teen characters

Synopsis

In the kooky, upside-down world of the Addams Family, to be sad is to be happy, to feel pain is to feel joy, and death and suffering are the stuff of their dreams. Nonetheless, this quirky family still has to deal with many of the same challenges faced by any other family, and the spookiest nightmare faced by every family creates the focus of Lippa, Brickman, and Elice’s musical: the Addams kids are growing up. The Addamses have lived by their unique values for hundreds of years, and Gomez and Morticia, the patriarch and matriarch of the clan, would be only too happy to continue living that way. Their dark, macabre, beloved daughter Wednesday, however, is now an eighteen-year-old young woman who is ready for a life of her own. She has fallen in love with Lucas Beineke, a sweet, smart boy from a normal, respectable Ohio family — the most un-Addams sounding person one could be! And to make matters worse, she has invited the Beinekes to their home for dinner. In one fateful, hilarious night, secrets are disclosed, relationships are tested, and the Addams family must face up to the one horrible thing they’ve managed to avoid for generations: change.

Lead Characters


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