THE ADDAMS FAMILY

VINTAGE THEATRE: SEPT 13 – OCT 27

Eddie Schumacher as Uncle Fester with the Addams Family Ancestors

Vintage Theatre’s production of THE ADDAMS FAMILY is a Socco Boffo Smash!

     Let me state my case.

      Exhibit A: the director. Bernie Cardell has directed the proceedings with consummate skill with regard to casting Eddie Schumacher as Uncle Fester, Liz Brooks-Larsen as Morticia and William B. Kahn as Gomez. Come on!!! It just doesn’t get any better than this.  

                    
William B. Kahn and Liz Brooks-Larsen

And Cardell’s pacing is outrageously well done…something of a tango one might say.

     Exhibit B: the technical work is AMAZING! Susan Rahmsdorff-Terry’s costume design resurrects the Addams Family ancestors (the chorus) in glamorous garb that makes them all white as a ghost with a delightfully macabre make-over to die for. (Sorry.)

       Choreographer Heather Westenskow  gives these dancing dead (the corpse de ballet?) some routines that are filled with true joie de mourir. (Sorry again.)    

      The scenic design by Ryan Walkoviak entombs them all in a house haunted by the je ne sais quoi of a dungeon combined with that of a cemetery. 

     Exhibit C: The superb music direction by Brandon Bill, who keeps those boys and ghouls stepping out of the closet and onto the stage with awesome musical accompaniment by the just-off-mausoleum stage band that keeps them all spinning in – and out – of their graves. 

      Exhibit D: Lighting designers Steve Tangedal and Will Melendez give the cast just enough  shade to appear as death warmed over.

       As for the acting and singing of Mr. William B. Kahn and Liz Brooks-Larsen, you will adore both his and hearse! 

      The brilliant Ms. Alexa Marie Rodriguez (Wednesday) and Mr. Gabriel Waits (Pugsley) inflict their torturing performances with gleeful abandon.

     But it’s not all so grave!  Without giving out any spoilers let me just say that the actors who play the normal characters in the play are excellent as well. They are: Faith Siobahn Ford(Alice Beineke), Doug Herman(Mel Beinike) and Elisha Horne(Lucas Beineke).

     I rest my case… 

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Vintage Theatre presents

“The Addams Family” 

The ghoulish American family is delightful in this devilish musical comedy.

Sept. 13 – Oct. 27

Fri., Sat. and Monday, September23at 7:30 p.m.; Sundays at 2:30 p.m. 

Tickets are $19 - $38 

www.vintagetheatre.org or 303-856-7830. 

Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora 80010.