The Allegheny-Clarion Valley Drama Club will present the Broadway Musical hit, “The Addam’s Family” at 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, March 15-16, in the high school auditorium.
In the kooky, upside-down world of the Addams Family, to be sad is to be happy, to feel pain is to feel joy, and death and suffering are the stuff of their dreams. Nonetheless, this quirky family still has to deal with many of the same challenges faced by any other family, and the spookiest nightmare faced by every family creates the focus Lippa, Brickman, and Elice’s musical: the Addams kids are growing up. The Addamses have lived by their unique values for hundreds of years and Gomez and Morticia, the patriarch and matriarch of the clan, would be only too happy to continue living that way.
Their dark, macabre, beloved daughter Wednesday, however, is now an 18-year-old young woman who is ready for a life of her own. She has fallen in love with Lucas Beineke, a sweet, smart boy from a normal, respectable Ohio family — the most un-Addams sounding person one could be! And to make matters worse, she has invited the Beinekes to their home for dinner. In one fateful, hilarious night, secrets are disclosed, relationships are tested, and the Addams family must face up to the one horrible thing they’ve managed to avoid for generations: change.
The production is under the direction of Julie Powell and Jennifer Lowrey.
It features John Hetrick as Gomez, Caroline Lowrey as Morticia, Allison Sherman as Wednesday, Brent Hetrick as Uncle Fester, Jimmy Powell as Pugsley, Karly King as Grandma, Jonathan Powell as Lucas Beineke, Abby Barris as Alice Beineke, Braden Murray as Mal Beineke, Sean Barger as Lurch, Lexi Bauer, Lydia Seaton,Chloe Toy, Sarah Hughes, Lily Whittling, Anthony Palmer, Nichole Sherry, Cailyn Shaffer, Cejae Wyman, Abigail Terwilliger,John Healy, Kylee Cutwright, Bella Hunt, Rylee Bowser, Mia Sherman,Chloe Dittman, Lily Preston, Allison Lewis, Madyson Hetzler, Olivia Drake, Lauren Alworth, Cassidy Bowser, Marissa Fisher, Kenzy Kellogg and Makenna Armagost as Ancestors.
Tickets cost $5 for students, $8 for adults and are available at the door.
