To celebrate the opening night of new leading lady Brooke Shields, the cast of The Addams Family ventured away from their Broadway mansion in favor of a party at the Empire Hotel. Broadway.com received a special invite to the swanky event, where we chatted with Shields about the thrill of returning to Broadway, and her co-stars, who were also ...

As Brooke Shields celebrated her opening night in The Addams Family, Broadway.com asked which of Shields' past hit films or TV series you'd like to see adapted for the Broadway stage. Take a look below to find out which vehicles fans found most deserving of a theatrical mounting.

1. The Blue Lagoon, 1980, 34%
After hit turns in ...

The cast of The Addams Family reached another family milestone on July 7 as Brooke Shields celebrated her opening night in the hit musical. Shields recently joined the Family as matriarch Morticia. After her opening performance, Shields and her Addams relatives headed to the Empire Hotel for a lavish rooftop party in her honor. Take a look below at ...

Stage and screen star Brooke Shields is back on Broadway, embracing her dark side as macabre mama Morticia Addams in The Addams Family. Aside from her Broadway star turns in Chicago and Wonderful Town, Shields has had many memorable roles during her 30-year plus career. From castaway teen Emmeline in The Blue Lagoon to magazine columnist Susan Keane on TV ...

The cast of The Addams Family is celebrating Mother's Day a little late this year as stage and screen star Brooke Shields joins the hit musical as matriarch Morticia. Broadway.com has your first look at Shields as she slips into Morticia's trademark slinky dress and long raven-colored hair. Take a look below at these new production shots ...

Brooke Shields is moving into The Addams Family's mansion as matriarch Morticia on June 28, and the actress recently stopped by The View to chat about her return to Broadway. Dressed in some seriously spike-adorned shoes, Shields joked that she's going "method" to play the Addams' morbid mother. The real-life mother of two girls also revealed that when ...

Age & Hometown: “Old enough to drink”; Seminole, FL

Current Role: Making her Broadway debut as dour daughter Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family.

Disney Roots: Potter’s parents met in a rock 'n' roll band, so it was only a matter of time before she began taking voice lessons from her mother. And yet “theater wasn’t even on my ...

Brooke Shields is readying for her return to Broadway on June 28 as slinky matriarch Morticia in The Addams Family. On June 23, Shields took a break from her busy rehearsal schedule to sit down with Good Morning America's Robin Roberts and chat about the excitement of joining the kooky family. Shields admits she's had trouble "navigating" Morticia ...

The Addams Family, winner of the 2010 Broadway.com Audience Choice Award for Favorite Musical, is still going strong over at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, where Roger Rees and Bebe Neuwirth now play the beloved Gomez and Morticia Addams. In fact, the cast of the musical comedy recently celebrated the show's 500th performance with a colorful cake after the matinee ...

Screwing up on live TV is an actor’s worst nightmare, and it’s exactly what happened to Broadway vet Brooke Shields at the Tony Awards on June 12. During the show’s hilarious opening number, “Broadway: It’s Not Just For Gays Anymore!” host Neil Patrick Harris headed into the crowd to enlist some singing help from A-listers in ...