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ADDAMS FAMILY Reviews#75
Posted: 4/8/10 at 9:53pmI feel like we have gone back years and im on the thread for Wicked, Addams Family folks, Addams Family.
Leading Actor Joined: 3/26/10
ADDAMS FAMILY Reviews#76
Posted: 4/8/10 at 9:54pm
But the bottom line is that Wicked had CATCHY POP songs that any girl would love to repeat over and over.
Addams Family has no memorable songs and no powerhouse vocal performances. What are they going to sing at the Tony's? When You're an Addams again? That's the only thing I could see them doing.
Broadway Star Joined: 10/15/08
ADDAMS FAMILY Reviews#77
Posted: 4/8/10 at 9:56pm
Should Brantley's review be up by tonight?
the NYTimes review is always eleventh hour, for whatever reason.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
ADDAMS FAMILY Reviews#78
Posted: 4/8/10 at 10:02pm
http://www.broadway.com/videos/tag/word-mouth/word-of-mouth-review-the-addams-family/
Broadway.com's Word Of Mouth review seems mixed to positive. Correct me if I'm wrong. This is probably not considered a "review-review" but it does discuss the opinions of the show.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
ADDAMS FAMILY Reviews#79
Posted: 4/8/10 at 10:08pm
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
ADDAMS FAMILY Reviews#80
Posted: 4/8/10 at 10:11pm
Entertainment Weekly: Positive (B)
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20359022,00.html
"Even before the start of the Addams Family musical on Broadway, when the overture riffs on the familiar theme to the 1960s sitcom (complete with audience-supplied finger snaps), you're primed for a good time. And then a disembodied hand (Thing!) pulls back the curtain and the catchy opening number, 'When You're an Addams,' raises your hopes higher, spryly reintroducing the death-fixated family in all its pale-faced glory. The look is perfect, from the lavish set to the monochromatic makeup and costumes. Could the whole show possibly deliver on that promise? Well, almost."
ADDAMS FAMILY Reviews#81
Posted: 4/8/10 at 10:11pm
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
ADDAMS FAMILY Reviews#82
Posted: 4/8/10 at 10:36pm
Brantley is very negative
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/theater/reviews/09addams.html?pagewanted=1&ref=theater
Imagine, if you dare, the agonies of the talented people trapped inside the collapsing tomb called “The Addams Family.” Being in this genuinely ghastly musical — which opened Thursday night at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater and stars a shamefully squandered Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth — must feel like going to a Halloween party in a strait-jacket or a suit of armor. Sure, you make a flashy (if obvious) first impression. But then you’re stuck in the darn thing for the rest of the night, and it’s really, really uncomfortable. Why, you can barely move, and a strangled voice inside you keeps gasping, “He-e-e-lp! Get me out of here!”
ADDAMS FAMILY Reviews#84
Posted: 4/8/10 at 10:38pm
not the bloodbath anticipated, but that's still a big ouchie.
good for the cast and designers for continuous praise - but what a shame. it should have worked, really.
ah, well. Memphis for best musical!
ADDAMS FAMILY Reviews#85
Posted: 4/8/10 at 10:46pm
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/06
ADDAMS FAMILY Reviews#86
Posted: 4/8/10 at 10:51pm
Crap!
Blaxx, I love how quick you were to start trashing this show!
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ADDAMS FAMILY Reviews#88
Posted: 4/8/10 at 10:57pm
"Addams Family has no memorable songs and no powerhouse vocal performances."
Wait, so...what was Krysta Rodriguez doing during "Pulled" then? Knitting?
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
ADDAMS FAMILY Reviews#89
Posted: 4/8/10 at 10:57pm
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.
ADDAMS FAMILY Reviews#90
Posted: 4/8/10 at 11:00pmHopefully this show's evisceration by the critics will lead to the downfall of the "franchise" musical - you know, a musical that is seen purely as an extension of the franchise, and built from the top down and not the ground up (as in, they came up with first the idea of musicalizing the franchise, then thought of actors, so that they could make a pitch before a writer was even HIRED).
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ADDAMS FAMILY Reviews#91
Posted: 4/8/10 at 11:01pm
That said, however, I wish they could have put this in the show: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWJiPUWoB4k
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ADDAMS FAMILY Reviews#92
Posted: 4/8/10 at 11:03pm
Hopefully this show's evisceration by the critics will lead to the downfall of the "franchise" musical - you know, a musical that is seen purely as an extension of the franchise, and built from the top down and not the ground up (as in, they came up with first the idea of musicalizing the franchise, then thought of actors, so that they could make a pitch before a writer was even HIRED).
Thank you. Franchises on Broadway tend to be disgusting - I'm glad that at least critics don't fall for any of it.
ADDAMS FAMILY Reviews#93
Posted: 4/8/10 at 11:05pmThat Brantley review was genius.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
ADDAMS FAMILY Reviews#95
Posted: 4/8/10 at 11:08pmI have to stick up for blaxx here, all Blaxx did was post reviews, no personal opinions
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ADDAMS FAMILY Reviews#96
Posted: 4/8/10 at 11:13pmJerry Zaks to the rescue!!!!!!...Maybe they will retool the show and send it over to London- we get retooled Love Never Dies.... just like an Actor's Equity exchange....will serve em right for shipping us more ALW crap!!!!!
ADDAMS FAMILY Reviews#97
Posted: 4/8/10 at 11:14pm
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.
ADDAMS FAMILY Reviews#98
Posted: 4/8/10 at 11:17pmThe problem (besides a wretched score) is that these characters SHOULD NOT BE SINGING! The Addams Family has no business singing except for maaaaybe Gomez and even then only under a very few circumstances. These characters could work very well in a play but a musical was never a good idea.
ADDAMS FAMILY Reviews#99
Posted: 4/8/10 at 11:17pmI wouldn't say very negative, but it definitely was negative. Maybe I am just way too nice!!
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