It was supposed to be the biggest Broadway show of the season. And then… it opened. The original Broadway production of The Addams Family defied the odds - and the reviews - to run a respectful 722 performances at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.Less than a decade later, The Addams Family is the most popular high school musical to produce in the United States. How did a Broadway pariah became America’s favorite musical?Mo Brady of The Ensemblist podcast speaks to the show's creators - as well as those mounting the show today - to learn how The Addams Family became so well loved.
The Addams Family
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It was supposed to be the biggest Broadway show of the season. And then… it opened. The original Broadway production of The Addams Family defied the odds - and the reviews - to run a respectful 722 performances at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.Less than a decade later, The Addams Family is the most popular high school musical to produce in the United States. How did a Broadway pariah became America’s favorite musical?Mo Brady of The Ensemblist podcast speaks to the show's creators - as well as those mounting the show today - to learn how The Addams Family became so well loved.
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February 17, 2021
#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. And yet, their gracious excitement to jump back into the world of The Addams Family showed me something that I hadn’t experienced as a member of the Broadway cast: many people like this show. First and foremost on that list was book co-author Rick Elice, who enjoyed getting his hands dirty as he wrote and rewrote the book to uncover clearer and more specific obstacles for his characters. Also on that list were Dontee Kiehn and Steve Bebout who, after closing the Broadway and national tours, went on to stage many, many well-received productions of the musical around the globe. And then there were those who are mounting the show now: the teachers and students creating little Addams Families of their own all across the country.
February 17, 2021
#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. Beyond all of the reasons a school would choose The Addams Family, I wanted to know about their experience producing the show: How did their mountings vary from the professional production I had heard about, both those in the U.S. and around the world? And were these students able to experience a kind of joy working on the show that I didn’t experience in the Broadway company? Luckily, Jim himself was able and willing to connect me with one of the first high schools to produce an amateur production of The Addams Family: Rock Ridge High School in Ashburn, Virginia. A thriving theatre program with not one, but two full time theatre teachers, Rock Ridge produced the show as its fall musical in the 2017-2018 school year. And lucky for me, I was able to speak to both of those theatre teachers about how their students experienced the show...
February 10, 2021
#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. But this wasn’t bridging the gap between these professional productions and the success the show has seen in schools and non-professional settings. So I reached out to the folx who were in charge of sharing The Addams Family with legions of schools across North America: Theatrical Rights Worldwide. With a mission to cultivate and extend the production life of musicals to all theatrical marketplaces, TRW is responsible for licensing amateur productions of theatrical properties to student and amateur producers across the country and (in fact, as their name suggests) the world. I spoke with Jim Hoare, their Executive Vice President of Education and Community Initiatives about how the show became a part of the TRW catalogue. A former high school theatre teacher himself, he has directed over one hundred shows and musicals, including the first high school production of Once On This Island and the world’s first production of Les Miserables, School Edition. Over the phone, Jim shared expert knowledge of what has made The Addams Family such a popular choice for amateur licensing. Here’s our conversation...
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