The Addams Family Musical: Adaptive Edition

THE ADDAMS FAMILY, a comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family, features an original story and a dilemma that’s every father’s nightmare: Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family—a man her parents have never met. And if that wasn’t upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before—keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and his parents.

THE ADDAMS FAMILY Adaptive Edition has been adapted from the original Broadway production. With the permission of the original authors, the Adaptive Edition has been carefully tailored by Janet Yates Vogt and Mark Friedman to make the show performance-ready for youth and adults with physical, developmental, and intellectual disabilities. Script and song lengths have been shortened, and tempos have been adjusted to sit more comfortably for performers. Stage movement and interaction between cast members have been set at a comfortable level, based on pilot productions developed alongside a team of professionals at Metzcor Community Campus in Cincinnati, Ohio.