THE ADDAMS FAMILY - Vanity Fair PHOTO- Page 2

[Devious]

Posted: 11/4/09 at 9:05pm

No Wes Taylor =[

But still looks pretty awesome.

[blaxx]

Posted: 11/4/09 at 9:14pm

I'm with you, Tag.

I'm more scared to see if this is theatrical and if it sings, when the design looks just like the TV and film versions. That looks like they dressed up Broadway celebrities for a magazine Halloween publicity shoot.

[raulmark]

Posted: 11/4/09 at 9:17pm

looks great

[MusicSnob1]

Posted: 11/4/09 at 9:35pm

Blaxx - I strongly disagree with you. But in all fairness, I must ask... What would you change, then, to make it more pleasing for you???

Any ideas or helpful thoughts, Blaxx?

Edit: Aaron Tveit (naked) doesn't count!!! :)

Updated On: 11/4/09 at 09:35 PM

[Jane2]

Posted: 11/4/09 at 9:36pm

"My fears are far from abetted nevertheless."

What does that mean?

[lakezurich]

Posted: 11/4/09 at 9:36pm

What an AWESOME picture. I can't wait 'till I get to see it. December 13th baby!!!!

[ifuweregay93]

Posted: 11/4/09 at 9:47pm

I cant wait till I see the show in 2 weeks! The picture looks great!

[pc1145N2]

Posted: 11/4/09 at 10:02pm

I'll see it in 3 weeks! I can't wait.

[blaxx]

Posted: 11/4/09 at 10:03pm

Blaxx - I strongly disagree with you. But in all fairness, I must ask... What would you change, then, to make it more pleasing for you???

Any ideas or helpful thoughts, Blaxx?

Edit: Aaron Tveit (naked) doesn't count!!! :)

Aww, I was going to say Aaron Tveit naked!

I didn't say anything against the show (ridiculous if I would). I just said that I'm scared to see the same characters we know from film and TV break into song and dance. By looking at that picture, it seems that we are getting the exact same cartoon-inspired characters who were never popular by having musical numbers, and suddenly they are given that.

Who knows, maybe it will work wonders. Although I must say I find this kind of humor more effective in smaller doses (like a short TV episode), than in a two hour story line like in the films (which IMHO didn't work very well at all and had ridiculously convoluted plots).

[Pgenre]

Posted: 11/4/09 at 10:06pm

""My fears are far from abetted nevertheless."

What does that mean?"

Well, the the first preview is in two weeks and no one on this board or anyone not IN the production has heard a WORD about the score, the production or ANYTHING. That could be a great sign or a bad sign, but the last show I can remember with this little behind the scenes activity was... I can't even remember... THOU SHALT NOT, perhaps?

P

[NGeorgiaBwayFan]

Posted: 11/4/09 at 10:09pm

I love it!
Looks like fun.

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 11/4/09 at 10:20pm

I'd say the original TV series is what the films are based on. There wasn't much reinterpretation in the films that didn't exist on TV.

Really? From what little of the TV show I saw, I'd say John Astin's Gomez is VERY different from Raul Julia's.

[Jane2]

Posted: 11/4/09 at 10:28pm

Ah, I see your point, Pgenre. I think it was just the misuse of the word "abetted" that threw me. Thanks!

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

Posted: 11/4/09 at 10:35pm

This will be awesome!

[Barney Stinson]

Posted: 11/4/09 at 10:35pm

Who does Wesley Taylor play in it?

[willep]

Posted: 11/4/09 at 10:40pm

Oh man, that picture looks fantastic!

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 11/4/09 at 10:40pm

Wednesday's fiance.

Carolee Carmello & Terrance Mann play his parents.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 11/4/09 at 10:41pm

I hope they give Thing an aria!

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 11/4/09 at 10:45pm

he plays Joel Glicker?

[MusicSnob1]

Posted: 11/4/09 at 10:52pm

Blaxx - Fair enough. We're on the same page, mostly!

[darquegk]

Posted: 11/5/09 at 12:48am

The movies did take a fairly radical pitch-shift, making the Addamses not so much a morbid but loveable family but a cheerfully psychopathic, decidedly amoral (if not evil "in a friendly way") clan extending back through hundreds of years of decadence and violence. The television Addamses were eccentrics with a taste for bondage and the outre, whereas the film Addamses lived in their own little alternate-reality nightmare world that extended only as far as their backyard.

Apparently, the musical is following the television show's lighter track.

[AvenueQResident]

Posted: 11/5/09 at 1:05am

Presentation is fabulous :)

[chiuptown]

Posted: 11/5/09 at 6:12am

cant wait to see this december 10

[matty159]

Posted: 11/5/09 at 7:46am

What a great picture. It has me hooked...and currently looking at flights to Chicago!

[StephanietheStar]

Posted: 11/5/09 at 9:10am

ahhh!! I'm super excited. Seeing this Chicago's press opening night!