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The Addams Family National Tour to Play Pantages in June

The Addams Family touring cast
(© Jeremy Daniel)
The Addams Family touring cast
(© Jeremy Daniel)

The national tour of The Addams Family will make its Los Angeles premiere at the Pantages Theatre for a two-week run, June 5-17.

Based on the legendary cartoons by Charles Addams and featuring a score by Andrew Lippa and a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, the musical stars Douglas Sills and Sara Gettelfinger as Gomez and Morticia Addams, who are taken by surprise when their daughter Wednesday (Cortney Wolfson) brings home the sweet and respectable boy (Brian Justin Crum), with whom she has fallen in love. The production also features Martin Vidnovic (Mal Beineke), Gaelen Gilliland (Alice Beineke), Blake Hammond (Uncle Fester), Pippa Pearthree (Grandma), Tom Corbeil (Lurch), and Patrick D. Kennedy (Pugsley).

The ensemble includes Ted Ely, Karla Garcia, Steve Geary, Victoria Huston-Elem, Patrick Oliver Jones, Lizzie Klemperer,Alexandra Matteo, Pilar Millhollen, Christy Morton, Brad Nacht, Jonathan Ritter, Roland Rusinek, Geo Seery, Samantha Shafer and Ethan Wexler.

The Addams Family features direction, scenic, and costume design by Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch, with production supervision by Jerry Zaks and choreography by Sergio Trujillo. The production features lighting design by Natasha Katz, sound design by Acme Sound Partners and puppetry by Basil Twist, with music supervision by Mary-Mitchell Campbell, music direction by Valerie Gebert, orchestrations by Larry Hochman, dance arrangements by August Eriksmoen, hair design by Tom Watson, make-up design by Angelina Avallone and special effects design by Greg Meeh.

For more information and tickets to The Addams Family, click here.

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