The 2013\/2014 National Tour of the new musical The Addams Family, <\/i><\/b>based on the bizarre and beloved family of characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams, will make its Mississippi Delta premiere April 27 at the Bologna Performing Arts Center as the final performance in its 2013-2014 Main Stage Season. Tickets are now on sale.<\/p>\n
The Addams Family, which began performances in March 2010 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre and ran through December 2011, immediately became one of Broadway\u2019s biggest hits. Chris Jones of the Chicago Tribune<\/i> described the production as \u201cclassic, full-tilt, fast paced, old-fashioned musical comedy!\u201d and John Simon of Bloomberg News<\/i> called it \u201cuproarious! A glitzy-gloomy musical entirely worthy of the macabre drawings by Charles Addams.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Addams Family features a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, and music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa. The production is directed by Jerry Zaks\u00a0with choreography by Sergio Trujillo. Production design\u00a0(sets and costumes) by Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch\u00a0with set adaptations by James Kronzer. The production features lighting design by Natasha Katz, sound design by Craig Cassidy and puppetry by Basil Twist.<\/p>\n
The Addams Family\u00a0features an original story, and it is every father\u2019s nightmare. Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness,\u00a0has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart\u00a0young man from a respectable family.\u00a0A man her parents have never met.\u00a0And if that weren’t upsetting enough, she confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother.\u00a0Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before – keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia.\u00a0Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for\u00a0Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and his parents.<\/p>\n
In a prolific career spanning six decades, Charles Addams created several thousand cartoons, sketches and drawings, many of which were published in The New Yorker<\/i>. But it was his creation of characters that came to be known as The Addams Family that brought Addams his greatest acclaim. With a unique style that combined the twisted, macabre and just plain weird with charm, wit and enchantment, Addams\u2019 drawings have entertained millions worldwide and served as the inspiration for multiple television series and motion pictures.<\/p>\n
The Addams Family\u00a0tour for North America\u00a0is produced by Phoenix Entertainment, Stephen B. Kane and Michael McFadden, by special arrangement with Theatrical Rights Worldwide.<\/p>\n
To purchase tickets, contact the Bologna Performing Arts Center Ticket Office at (662) 846-4626 or go online to www.bolognapac<\/b>.com<\/a>. For more information on The Addams Family, visit www.tafontour.com<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2013\/2014 National Tour of the new musical The Addams Family, based on the bizarre and beloved family of characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams, will make its Mississippi…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":59650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1417],"class_list":["post-59648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bologna-performing-arts-center","tag-bologna-performing-arts-center"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59651,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59648\/revisions\/59651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}