Marshall Brickman, Rick Elice, Andrew Lippa
The Addams Family
The weird and creepy, but also hilariously entertaining Addams family first appeared in a comic published by Charles Addams, American comicwriter, in 1938 in the weekly New Yorker. The familiar comic-book characters, father Gomez and mother Morticia, their children Wednesday and Pugsley, uncle Fester, grand-mother, servant Lurch, The Thing and many others were also featured in a popular television series in the 1960s. The Addams family acquired even more fame due to two films by Barry Sonnenfeld, made in the early 1990s, starring Raúl Juliá as Gomez, Anjelica Huston as Morticia, Christina Ricci as Wednesday and others.
The Addams Family, 2010
Musical comedy
Slovenian premiere
Performance length is 2 hours and 30 minutes and has 1 pause.
Creators
Translator
Andrej Rozman Roza
Director
Aleksandar Popovski
Musical Supervisor
Laren Polič Zdravič
Dramaturg
Eva Mahkovic
Set designer
Urša Vidic
Costume designer
Jelena Proković
Choreographer
Anja Möderndorfer
Make-up artist
Špela Ema Veble
Repetiteur
Jože Šalej in Ana Erčulj
Language consultant
Maja Cerar
Lighting designer
Andrej Koležnik
Assistant to director
Juš A. Zidar in Taja Lesjak Šilak
Assistant to costume designer
Katarina Šavs
Actors
Morticia Addams
Iva Krajnc Bagola
Gomez Addams
Uroš Smolej
Wednesday Addams
Viktorija Bencik Emeršič
Pugsley Addams
Jurij Weiss k. g.
Uncle Fester
Jaka Lah
Grandma Addams
Nataša Tič Ralijan
Lurch
Filip Samobor
Ancestors Addams
Gašper Jarni
Tanja Dimitrievska
Sara Gorše k. g.
Nika Manevski k. g./Lina Akif k. g.
Tomo Tomšič
Gaber K. Trseglav
Alice Beineke
Lena Hribar Škrlec
Barbara Ribnikar k. g.
Mal Beineke
Gaber K. Trseglav
Robert Korošec k. g.
Lucas Beineke
Matic Lukšič
Music on tape is performed by
Barbara Gradišek, Matej Kužel, Miha Petric, Luka Ipavec, Lazaro A. H. Zumeta, Žiga Kožar, Jan Gregorka in Laren Polič Zdravič.
The Addams family became so well-known in American culture and abroad that it was declared »the most iconic American family, along
with the Kennedys«. According to their relevance and cultural impact, they were compared to the Roosevelts and the Kennedys, claiming that they were so unambiguously American it was difficult to discuss the history of the country without their name being mentioned. The Addams family made an outstanding impact on American comic books, television and film production, and inspired the emergence of Gothic subculture and its extravagant fashion style.
The author of the comic book invented the Addams family as a satiric version of a model American family of the 20th century. He portrayed its members as eccentric aristocrats with bad taste and bizarre hobbies that often seem unusual or scary to people around them.
