Botany Downs Secondary College is performing The Addams Family Musical until Saturday, August 5 in the school’s Performing Arts Centre.
Director Jacqueline Hood, the school’s head of drama, says the story takes place over one evening in the Addams Family house where two very different families come together and learn that even though they are different, they have more in common than they thought.
“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 to Lippa, Brickman and Elice’s musical: the Addams kids are growing up.”
The Addams’ have lived by their unique values for hundreds of years and Gomez [played by Matthew Palmer] and Morticia [Paige McKechnie], the patriarch and matriarch of the clan, would be only too happy to continue living that way.
Their dark, macabre, beloved daughter Wednesday [Ella Vuksanlekaj], 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 [John Yang], 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 CAST
Gomez Addams, played by Matthew Palmer; Morticia Addams – Paige McKechnie; Wednesday Addams – Ella Vuksanlekaj; Pugsley Addams – Annalee Killip; Fester – Aleisha Coleman; Grandma – Nicole Johnson; Lurch – Tiffany Chan; Lucas Beineke – John Yang; Alice Beineke – Gemma Vincer; Mal Beineke – Juwahn Ranjith; Addams Family ancestors – Lanya Faofua, Shruti Sureshkumar, Jessica Macdonald, Miriam Gedge, Ethan Dunne, Hannah Ghiyath, Eva Ewing, Ivy Liong, Rehmat Gill, Renese Tan, Irene Arora, Pepper Jukes, Saskia Narain, Marli Roodt, Chrystal Zhang and Amy Yang. Director – Jacqueline Hood.
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