Producers just announced an amazing creative team for The Addams Family, the new Broadway musical based on Charles Addams’ cartoons, which is set to open at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on April 8, 2010.
They include puppeteer Basil Twist (Arias with a Twist), lighting designer Natasha Katz (The Coast of Utopia and Aida), sound designer Acme Sound Partners (In the Heights), music director Mary-Mitchell Campbell (Company), orchestrator Larry Hochman (Spamalot), dance arranger August Eriksmoen (Memphis), hair designer Tom Watson (Wicked), make-up designer Angelina Avallone (The Little Mermaid), special effects designer Greg Meeh (Spamalot), fight director Rick Sordelet (The Lion King), associate director Heidi Miami Marshall and production supervisor Beverley Randolph.
The Addams Family has a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice (Jersey Boys), music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party), direction and design by Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch (Shockheaded Peter, Satyagraha) and choreography by Sergio Trujillo (Next to Normal, Jersey Boys).
Starring Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth as Gomez and Morticia, the musical features Terrence Mann as Mal Beineke, Carolee Carmello as Alice Beineke, Kevin Chamberlin as Uncle Fester, Jackie Hoffman as Grandmama, Zachary James as Lurch, Adam Riegler as Pugsley, Wesley Taylor as Lucas Beineke and Krysta Rodriguez as Wednesday.
I can’t wait for this show!
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