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#483 - The Addams Family (Legacy - feat. Steve Bebout, Rick Ellis, Rebekah Hess)
Following the journey of The Addams Family has been surprising. Before I started, I wasn’t even sure the original creative team would want to go on record with me about the show’s tumultuous development.
#478 - The Addams Family (Rock Ridge High School - feat. Anthony Cimino-Johnson, Rebekah Hess)
In learning about how The Addams Family found popularity after its initial professional mountings, I wanted to dig one level deeper. Thanks to Jim Hoare at Theatrical Rights Worldwide, I had learned why the show was a popular choice for amateur and student groups.
#473 - The Addams Family (Student Productions, feat. Jim Hoare)
In my conversations with the original creative team of The Addams Family, I was learning how the show was refined and restructured to become a success on tour and around the world.
#464 - The Addams Family (International Productions, feat. Steve Bebout. Dontee Kiehn)
In my journey to chronicle the transformation of The Addams Family musical through its many incarnations, I was starting to understand what made the show so unique. Most first national tours are essential replicas of the Broadway production, but The Addams Family’s was not.
#459 - The Addams Family (feat. Steve Bebout)
One of the not-so secret secrets in this show about secrets is that The Addams Family went through massive structural changes multiple times on its way to becoming the most popular musical in America.
#454 - The Addams Family (feat. Dontee Kiehn)
The original production of The Addams Family was choreographed by Tony Award winner Sergio Trujillo. Once a Broadway ensemblist himself, The Addams Family came along when Sergio had four productions running simultaneously on Broadway: our show, the long-running Jersey Boys, the sparse but beautiful musical staging in Next to Normal, and the Tony-Award winning production of Memphis.
#449 - The Addams Family (feat. Rick Elice)
My first stop on this journey was reaching out to an old colleague, Rick Elice. Along with Marshall Brickman, Rick wrote the book for the musical adaptation of The Addams Family.
#446 - The Addams Family
It was supposed to be the biggest Broadway show of the season. Two theatre titans taking on two of the most familiar roles in popular culture. The combination of wildly successful source material and innovative theatremakers were sure to create a theatrical juggernaut.
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