ADDAMS FAMILY Reviews — Page 4

I feel like we have gone back years and im on the thread for Wicked, Addams Family folks, Addams Family.

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Should Brantley's review be up by tonight?

the NYTimes review is always eleventh hour, for whatever reason.

Theatermania is mixed

Despite the discouraging words about The Addams Family that circulated as it prepared for its Broadway run at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, this new musical adaptation of Charles Addams' gleefully contrary cartoons hasn't turned out to be a complete calamity -- although it comes perilously close to becoming one at times.

The prime rescuers of this somewhat misguided operation are its above-the-title stars: Nathan Lane works every one of his formidable performing tricks and frequently succeeds as Gomez, the dapper Addams patriarch, while Bebe Neuwirth, in long wig and cleavage-focused black gown, plays wife Morticia with sly conviction.

http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/reviews/04-2010/the-addams-family_26353.html

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B from Entertainment Weekly

"If you have a high tolerance for corn on the macabre, this is the show for you. Lane is the principal ham, milking every punchline in an accent that strays all over the European continent (Gomez is supposedly Spanish). But he also sings a genuinely touching song to his grown daughter, Wednesday (Krysta Rodriguez), who's gotten engaged to a seemingly square Ohio boy named Lucas (Wesley Taylor). It's in such quieter moments that the iconic characters on stage become more than mere shtick figures."
The Addams Family Reviewed by Thom Geier

oh my.

It is a blood bath
Apart from a few second rate positives the show has taken a beating tonight with only Lane coming out on top

Best new musical will go to American Idiot

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I was at least hoping for mixed. This is sad.

Blaxx, I love how quick you were to start trashing this show!

As far as I'm concerned, there isn't a single personal opinion from my part in the entire thread. I just put up the reviews.

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That said, however, I wish they could have put this in the show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWJiPUWoB4k

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That Brantley review was genius.

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I have to stick up for blaxx here, all Blaxx did was post reviews, no personal opinions

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But this show should have worked. However, they made ghastly choices from square one. The Addams Family IS a good franchise. You don't bring in the guy who wrote, well, come to think of it, what the hell HAS he written? What happened to the apprentice system in the composing arts? You can't just walk in and design a Broadway show. You have to find a way into the Guild and then work for dogs years as an assistant.

Hell, they wouldn't let Stephen Sondheim write the music for Gypsy. As Louis B Mayer said to Arthur Freed, a very successful composer who wanted to produce a movie,"You have to learn to crawl before you can walk."

Imagine what Marc Shaimen could have done with these characters.

And then there are the two directors who, wait, what big-budget Broadway shows have they done? (Cue: crickets chirping.)

Oh wait, I'm not done. Because when you think of the perversity of Charles Addam's humor, the first name you think of as book writer is Marshall Brickman, who wrote....... uh, Jersey Boys? Well, he did write "Annie Hall" and "Manhattan" and Woody Allen is kinda ookie and spookie, so maybe there is a connection.

I just think this was a misbegotten, ill-conceived project that could, shouda and woulda been a contender in the right hands.

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I wouldn't say very negative, but it definitely was negative. Maybe I am just way too nice!!