The Addams Family Announces Plans for Spring 2010 Broadway Bow

Producers of the new musical take on The Addams Family have announced plans to bring the show to Broadway in spring of 2010 following its Chicago premiere later this year.

According to the show’s official website, the musical will start performances on Broadway on March 5, 2010, with an opening set for April 8, 2010. No theater has been announced for the show’s Broadway run at this time.

The Addams Family will feature a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice librettists of the 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical Jersey Boys and music and lyrics Andrew Lippa The Wild Party. The show will be choreographed by Sergio Trujillo Jersey Boys, with lighting by Natasha Katz and musical direction by Mary-Mitchell Campbell. The musical will be directed and designed by Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch Shockheaded Peter.

Prior to Broadway, The Addams Family will play the Ford Center for the Performing Arts/Oriental Theatre in Chicago from November 13, 2008 to January 10, 2010.

In a career spanning six decades, Charles Addams created several thousand cartoons, sketches and drawings, many of which were published in The New Yorker. But it was his creation of characters that came to be known as The Addams Family that brought Addams his greatest acclaim. Addams’ drawings of Gomez, Morticia, Fester, Wednesday, Pugsley, Grandmama, Lurch and Thing served as the inspiration for multiple television series and motion pictures.

No casting has been announced for the show, but Tony winners Bebe Neuwirth and Nathan Lane played Morticia and Gomez Addams in a recent New York City reading.