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The Addams Family is a musical comedy with music and lyrics past Andrew Lippa and a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. The show is based upon The Addams Family characters created past Charles Addams in his single-panel gag cartoons, which describe a ghoulish American family with an analogousness for all things macabre. It as well features several new characters. Numerous film and television adaptations of Addams' cartoons exist, only the musical, which is the first phase bear witness based on the characters, is officially based upon the cartoons rather than the television and film characters, though subtle references to the screen versions are fabricated.

The plot revolves around Wed Addams, now a young woman, falling in love with a swain from a more conventional family and the civilization clash that ensues.

Later on a tryout in Chicago, the evidence opened on Broadway in Apr 2010. The original cast featured Nathan Lane as Gomez and Bebe Neuwirth as Morticia. The musical was nominated for and won a number of awards, and has seen disquisitional and commercial success in Broadway, U.s.a. tour, and Sydney.

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This musical contains examples of:

• Thespian Innuendo: Morticia sings "You have to exist in love with Decease" in the German and Dutch version of "When Y'all're An Addams". Elisabeth made Pia Douwes (Dutch Morticia) and Uwe Kröger (German Gomez) household names in the theatre scene, and it revolved around Death's romantic pursuit of Sisi.
• Adapted Out: Cousin Itt, although he did come dorsum in the touring version. Downplayed with Thing, who cameos a couple of times.
• Historic period Lift: Wednesday'south age is changed from a young girl to a teenager of eighteen.
• Appreciating Nickname: Gomez calls Morticia "Tish" and "Querida" ^annotation "Dear" in Castilian, and calls Wednesday "Paloma" ^notation "Dove" and "My Little Atilla". Mortica calls him "Mon Cher" ^notation "My Dear" in French.
• All-Knowing Singing Narrator: Fester.
• All Musicals Are Adaptations: Radio ads for the musical didn't even have to mention the show'southward proper name. It consisted of the famous theme song with an journalist saying "They're coming to Broadway" and giving the info to order advance tickets.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: "I Normal Nighttime" shows Lucas and Midweek both thinking this of their parents (for wildly different reasons) and trying to go them to not be embarrassing in front of the other's family unit for ane evening.
• Annihilation You lot Can Practice, I Can Do Better: The whole indicate of Lucas and Wednesday's "Crazier than You" duet. (Lucas actually proves he's crazier past blindfolding her before she shoots the apple tree off his head; in the original Chicago production Midweek actually says "Oh my god, you are crazier than me!")
• Audience Participation: Reportedly when the play opens with the famous TV theme song, no one in the audience needs prompting to snap their fingers in time with the cast.
• Bad Liar: Gomez, when he is trying to hide the fact that Midweek is engaged to Lucas from Morticia.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Morticia, in the original preview for the prove, discovers Gomez and Alice dancing (she asked him for a lesson to spice upwardly her marriage with Mal), and goes afterward her husband with a sword.
• Big Brother Nifty: Wednesday was a gender-switched version. Just in a typically Addamsish twist, Puglsey enjoyed information technology. The vocal "What if" had him confronting the horrible possibility that she might stop.
• Black Comedy Rape: Mal, the very uptight father of Wednesday'southward boyfriend, loosens upward and gets back together with his married woman who he had been drifting apart from after being molested by a squid living in the Addams' basement.
  • Averted in the Touring version: Mal only watches Midweek and Lucas reconcile their beloved and is encouraged by Fester to exercise the same with his married woman.
• Bouquet Toss: Not at a wedding, but in the final vocal, the ghost bride throws Wednesday her bouquet every bit she re-enters the family unit crypt with the other ancestors. It's a beautiful moment that also symbolically resolves the question of whether or nor the latter's engagement would continue to its logical conclusion.
• Breach of Hope of Marriage: Gomez assumes that this is the reason why Wednesday and Lucas are no longer getting married.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: In addition to Fester's narration:
  • The opening number, "When You're an Addams" is sung to the audience, every bit are several others.
  • While the rest of the activeness on phase freezes, Gomez sings to the audience, explaining that there are "Ii Things" and "Three Things" he would never do. When he starts to sing that there are "Four Things", Morticia turns out to exist aware of what he is doing and tells him to cease.
  • During "Total Disclosure", Grandmama refers to the possibility of 2 90-year-erstwhile "hotties" beingness in the audience.
  • During "Death Is Just Around the Corner", Morticia explains a chip of wordplay to the audience.

  Morticia: Coroner. Get it? Death is just around the coroner...

• Cameo: Made by Matter and Cousin Itt, at curtain rise before Act I and Ii, respectively.
• Irresolute Yourself For Love: Wed Addams changes from a sombre, unorthodox immature woman who wears black to a cheerful, generic young woman who wears yellowish for her love interest, a guy who is basically just the definition of generic.
• Companion Cube: Fester with the Moon.
• Creepy Family: The driving trope backside all the adaptations.
• Cultural Translation: The German version of "Pulled" has Wednesday saying Udo Jürgens' greatest hits have got her pulled in a new direction, rather than Liberace's.
• Deadpan Snarker: Lurch manages to be i without even speaking. Whenever someone tells him to hurry, he maintains his deadening pace while swinging his artillery as though he were running.
• Did You Simply Romance Cthulhu?: Uncle Fester is in love with the moon of all things. (It'southward the Addams Family, it doesn't have to make sense. Although, given that it is the Addams Family unit, the moon could be live for all nosotros know!)
• Don't Explain the Joke: Gomez, when discussing Alfonso the Enormous with Mr. Beineke.

  Gomez: Do I have to describe you a diagram?

• Expository Hairstyle Change: Used in the musical to signify that Wed's grown upwardly.
• Final Love Duet: "Let's Alive Earlier Nosotros Die" and the Tango de Amor led by Gomez and Morticia.
• Funny Foreigner: Gomez is clearly this while portrayed by Lane, who gives the grapheme a "deliciously phony Spanish emphasis" (as described by a reviewer from the Associated Printing).
• Genre Deconstruction: One of the more refreshing aspects of the play is seeing the Addams Family contend and be aroused with each other. In by adaptations, conflicts were usually external and the family unit is always fully loving and accepting of i another. Here, Wednesday is unsure how to tell Morticia most her engagement and swears Gomez to secrecy, leaving Gomez torn between his married woman and girl, and Morticia spends much of the musical pissed at both of them for keeping secrets from her. Fifty-fifty the most loving, close-knit families aren't always going to be on the aforementioned page.

• Ghostly Goals: The reason the Ancestors don't become back to the afterlife subsequently being summoned at the start is because they have to help Wed resolve her crisis. Biggest example: they create the storm that strands the Beinekes at the house.
• One thousand Staircase Entrance: In the beginning act, Wed appears at the summit of the stairs merely after her "normal" fiance and his parents have arrived. Not exactly yard, merely the "everyone stares" flake is played straight- considering she's wearing a yellow dress (identical to her normal outfit in all simply color). The full general reaction is 1 of horror rather than admiration, from anybody except her future in-laws; in a cut line from the Chicago preview, even her fiance Lucas tells her to "take that dress and burn it." Gomez says she "look[s] similar a crime scene."
• Happily Married: Unusually for Addams Family unit fabric, this play Double-subverts information technology with its B-plot: Gomez and Morticia start off this style (par for the course), just Wednesday asks Gomez to keep her engagement to Lucas a hugger-mugger from Morticia, leading to Poor Communication Kills moments throughout the play, and eventually a fallout between the two. Then, soon before the concluding number, Gomez 1: confronts Morticia about Parental Hypocrisy from when they offset got married, and 2: invites her on a trip to Paris (a Brick Joke from an earlier moment), and the two make up.
  • The implication at the end of the play is that both Mal and Alice and Wednesday and Lucas will end upwards the same.
• "I Am Becoming" Song: Wed sings about how love is changing her in "Pulled"
• Improbable Aiming Skills: Wednesday manages to shoot an apple off Lucas' caput with a crossbow. While blindfolded. Some productions justify this by having the ancestors assist her.
• Improv: In "I Normal Night" the last line to Fester'due south first verse tin can vary wildly from product to product. On the original Broadway cast album, information technology ends "Were you folks right for the mezzanine?". The script lists that version, also as the alternate line "Was rehab correct for Charlie Sheen?" Local productions usually replace this line with a pop-culture reference to any's current at the moment, provided it keeps the "een" rhyme scheme going - some adaptations suspension the "een" rhyme scheme to take pot-shots at an acceptable target - i adaption on Youtube has "was Donald Trump right for the Presidency?"
• Invisible to Normals: The chorus of bequeathed Addams ghosts tin can only exist seen by the family. This leads to some amusing situations; for example, near the terminate Wednesday catches a bouquet thrown to her by the deceased helpmate ancestor, much to Lucas' confusion. ^note Co-ordinate to the stage directions, Lucas and his parents are able to run into the Ancestors at the end of the play, after Gomez pronounces them part of the family.
• Laughing at Your Own Jokes: Gomez, when he first meets the Beinekes.

  Gomez: I go too far.

• Like Father, Like Son: Both Gomez and Pugsley sing their own versions of "What If".
• Like Mother, Like Daughter:
  • In the outset human action, Morticia expects Wednesday to follow in her footsteps by having "lots of boys" before settling downwards and getting married.
  • In the second deed, Gomez reminds Mortica that she hid her appointment from her mother the same way that Midweek hid her engagement from Morticia.
• List Song: "Pulled" becomes this towards the end.

  "Puppy dogs with droopy faces,
  Unicorns with dancing mice,
  Sunrise in wide open spaces,
  Disney World, I'll get in that location twice!..."

• Mortality Gray Area: Alluded to as Gomez says that he will invite every family member to his reunion: living, expressionless (via necromancy) and "undecided".
• The Musical: Starring Max Bialystock and Lilith Sternin as Gomez and Morticia.
• Musical Exposition: "When You're an Addams" introduces the family and its members to the audience.
• Musicalis Interruptus: Gomez has previously sung that there are "Two Things" and "Iii Things" he would never practice (lie to his wife, prevarication to his daughter, or tell the truth to either one.) Right when he'southward about to add together "Four Things", Morticia stops him.
• Mythology Gag: The Chicago tryouts contained a scene where the Addams recreate the TV prove'south famous intro, consummate with the original theme song (snapping included). While the scene was cut out of subsequent productions, the theme song was kept for the overture.
• Non Then Similar: In "One Normal Nighttime", while Wed and Lucas both want their respective parents to exit a adept impression on each other, the details of their requests couldn't be more different.

  Lucas: Just be respectable, don't make an odd remark
  Wednesday: Continue undetectable our passion for the dark

• OOC Is Serious Business organization:
  • Alice Beineke'southward solo, "Waiting".
  • Morticia'due south response to overhearing Wednesday's words in "Pulled".

    "Puppy dogs? Disney World? She's in no country to entertain guests."

• One Normal Dark: One of the best-known songs from this play is the Trope Namer. In it, Wednesday and Lucas beg to their respective parents for... well, approximate.
• Opening Chorus: "When Y'all're an Addams", which features every non-Beineke cast member.
• Open Secret: The musical is officially based on the former New Yorker comic strip, just information technology blatantly draws inspiration from later adaptations, such equally making Fester and Gomez brothers and having Wed exist a immature adult female rather than a footling girl.
• Parental Love Song: "Happy Sad" by Gomez to Midweek.
• Potty Failure: Grandma wets herself during the dinner, but rather than being embarrassed nigh information technology, she merely announces it to the whole table.
• Punny Proper name: The Beineke parents, Mal and Alice, together are Malice.
• Retcon: In The Musical, Midweek is a immature woman while Pugsley is barely in his teens. Additionally, Wednesday gets her looks from her dad. In the Television testify Wed was the younger child and looked like Morticia.
• Related in the Adaptation:
  • The dissimilar incarnations of the franchise take varied on whether Grandmama is Gomez's mother or Morticia'south. The musical lampshades the issue by having both of them unsure whose female parent she is, with the implication that she isn't related to either of them and is simply mooching off them.

    Morticia: When your mother moved in, it was supposed to be for two weeks. The weeks turn into months. It's been 12 years now and she'southward still up there! Unwanted, mocked, tolerated! Smoking weed in the attic. Well, I'grand non going to terminate up similar your female parent!
    Gomez: My mother? I thought she was your mother! Beat No, seriously.

  • Fester was originally Morticia's uncle in the comic strip and the original TV serial. The musical takes a cue from the 90'south movies by making him Gomez'south blood brother (despite not sharing Gomez's Castilian mannerisms).
• Rite of Passage: "Clandango," the original opening from the Chicago preview version, involves a family ritual centered around Wednesday'due south 18th altogether.
• Ready Switch Song: A few of Fester's songs are sung in front of the curtain, assuasive the fix to exist changed for the next scene.
• She Is All Grown Upwardly: While now eighteen-year-old Wednesday notwithstanding wears a variation of her usual wearing apparel, the story centers effectually the family unit reacting to her condign contained when they meet her fiancé and his family.
• The Singing Mute: Lurch sticks with his canon dialect of simply grunting until the final number, when he sings his beginning ever words.
• Speaking Similar Totally Teen: Lucas tries to practice it to await cool to Pugsley. It plain fails.

  Lucas: Yo, it'south tha Pugsta! Whaddup, lil' man?

  Pugsley: Are you trying to be cool?

• Stepford Smiler: Alice Beineke keeps all her desires and frustrations bottled up and maintains a happy suburban housewife facade. She finally snaps with her showstopper number "Waiting" when she drinks Grandmama's potion.
• Stereo Fibbing: Gomez, Midweek, and Lucas all requite dissimilar answers when Morticia asks what they're talking well-nigh, considering they don't desire to tell her that Wednesday and Lucas are engaged.
• All of a sudden Speaking: After uttering only incomprehensible moans and grunts for the unabridged show, Lurch sings perfectly conspicuously in the finale, "Move Toward the Darkness".
• Summon Backup Dancers: The Ancestors serve as this.

  Alice: What'south that one?
  Morticia: The dance routine.

• Tempting Fate: "It's just a unproblematic dinner. What could go wrong?"
• Truth-Telling Session: The Deed I finale, "Full Disclosure," is i of these gone horribly wrong.
• Unspoken Program Guarantee: In the tour version, Wednesday explicitly states that her program to get the two families' approving is that there is no program.
• Well, This Is Non That Trope: When Mal asks about The Game.

  Gomez: Did you lot always play Charades?
  Mal: Yeah.
  Gomez: Well, it'southward nothing like that.

• Where Did Nosotros Go Wrong?: Gomez and Morticia sing a song with this very championship over Midweek suddenly becoming normal.
• White Sheep: Wednesday believes she's losing some of her nighttime impulses after falling in love with a normal boy, much to her family's dismay.
• William Telling: Wednesday does this to Lucas, as a test of his love for her. He ups the ante by removing his improvised tie-blindfold and blindfolding her instead.

  Wednesday: What if I miss?
  Lucas: Then you lot'll exist the last thing I ever see.
  Wed: That is so hot.

  • Fortunately, she doesn't.

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