The Addams Family Coming to Broadway: Neuwirth to Star — Page 5

I still wish Julia Murney had been tapped for Morticia, but Bebe is a great choice.

Dear Raul Esparza,
Please play Gomez.
Love Me.

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again thetiny...LOL on that last one

Funny, MovieGuy...I also confused you two at first...! I thought you were thetiny for a moment there...

...and a goldfish is in a shark's belly now...! =O

Am I crazy or could Laura Benanti pull off Morticia?

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Cher as Morticia is tempting!

Yep, I am crazy, but I knew that one already.
I think someone else in some other Addams Family thread might have mentioned Benanti and, because I have a huge-ass crush on her, it stuck in my head. Haha... oh well.

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well, you could always wear a "fat suit". Audition, audition!

I love the Charles Adams cartoons. He began drawing them as a teenager. He did not cast John Astin or Raul Julia in the series/movies based on his works. As interesting as these performances were - and they were delicious - they are the creation of TV and film producers who lowest common denominator-ized the character. "Name Gomez? Must be Hispanic. They all dance, don't they? Wouldn't it be funny if he wanted to TANGO!!!? Ole!"

Look at the New Yorker cartoons: Gomez was short round man with maddness in his eyes. Look at Max Bialystok in "Betrayed" and put on the black rings around the eyes. The casting could not be more spot-on.

And we would be lucky to see Nathan Lane, one of the drollest of comedians in what he could make into the role of a lifetime.

This is a comedy first and a musical second, by nature of the source material. Bebe and Nathan had me at "Good eeeeevening..."

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Updated On: 5/3/09 at 07:21 PM

With all due respect folks i have to side with Nathan Lane.
Who sais Gomez MUST be suave and smarmy? John Astin was anything but those things and he was terrific.
In the series The New Addams Family Gomez was still a loveable goof.
That is why The Addams Family has become iconical where the Ray Bradbury story wich partialy inspired them (The Homecomming) has languished, they are loveable when done with good humor, and just a diversion when done more strait.
I would very much like to see him do it, as for the satelite radio comments about his involvment in 'Catch Me If You Can' i know that that was a rebroadcast of a 'Studio A' show he did previousely, a lot can happen in a few days or weeks.
Bebe Neuwrith would be a good Morticia, i can certainly see that - after the Ice Princess Lilith Sternin it would be a logical next step.