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The Addams Family Broadway Takes Final Bow
The Addams Family played its final Broadway performance on Sunday, December 31 after 725 performances and 34 previews.
Since beginning previews on March 8 2009, The Addams Family has been seen by more than 748,000 people. Prior to Broadway, The Addams Family played an 8 week engagement at the Oriental Theatre in Chicago, where it grossed more than $12 million, making it the most successful Broadway tryout in Chicago’s history.
The national tour of The Addams Family launched on September 15 at the Mahalia Jackson Theatre for the Performing Arts in New Orleans and is booked in more than 30 cities through 2012.
Get a look back at the production, from Chicago to Broadway and beyond, below!
Photo Credit: Joan Marcus (Broadway, Chicago); Jeremy Daniel (Tour)
The current Broadway cast of The Addams Family starred Brooke Shields as Morticia, Roger Rees as Gomez; Brad Oscar as Fester, Rachel Potter as Wednesday, Jackie Hoffman as Grandma, Zachary James as Lurch, Adam Riegler as Pugsley, Heidi Blickenstaff as Alice Beineke, Adam Grupper as Mal Beineke and Jesse Swenson as Lucas Beineke; the original Broadway cast included Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth as Gomez and Morticia, Terrence Mann as Mal Beineke, Carolee Carmello as Alice Beineke, Kevin Chamberlin as Uncle Fester, Jackie Hoffman as Grandma, Zachary James as Lurch, Adam Riegler as Pugsley, Wesley Taylor as Lucas Beineke and Krysta Rodriguez as Wednesday.
Brooke Shields IS Morticia
On Tuesday, June 28, THE ADDAMS FAMILY welcomed stage and screen star Brooke Shields in the role of Morticia. Ms. Shields joined current Broadway cast members Roger Rees as Gomez, Brad Oscar as Fester, Rachel Potter as Wednesday, Jackie Hoffman as Grandma, Zachary James as Lurch, Adam Riegler as Pugsley, Heidi Blickenstaff as Alice Beineke, Adam Grupper as Mal Beineke and Jesse Swenson as Lucas Beineke. Here is a first look at Shields and the cast!
Opening Number From The 2011 Tony Awards
What a fabulous opening to the Tony Awards show last night! (And Brooke, we still love you – just proves you’re human!)
Get a Peek at Brooke Shields as Morticia
Access Hollywood chats with Brooke Shields as she transforms into Morticia. (sorry for the commercials)
Brooke is Morticia
In an inspired bit of casting, Brooke Shields becomes Morticia on June 28. Read about it in this excerpt from a Patrick Healy piece—
Brooke Shields -- Morticia to be. (photo: AP)
Brooke Shields Will Be the New Morticia in ‘Addams Family’
By PATRICK HEALY
New York Times
March 31, 2011
Brooke Shields will continue her run as high-profile replacement actress on Broadway this summer when she takes over the role of Morticia in “The Addams Family” musical from Bebe Neuwirth, who will depart the show after 15 months.
The producers announced on Thursday that Ms. Shields will begin performances on June 28, on the cusp of the high summer season when many Broadway musicals have strong earnings thanks to tourists. Ms. Neuwirth will give her last performance on June 26; she is now playing opposite Roger Rees, who took over the leading man role of Gomez from Nathan Lane in mid-March.
