Nov 2, 2018 2 min read

“The Addams Family” will play for four performances Nov. 16-18 at Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center, Midland.

Tickets are available at www.lincolnparkarts.org/events, or by calling the Lincoln Park Box office at 724-576-4644.

“This is a great, family fun musical that celebrates the popular 1960s television show, as well as the more recent movies, while adding its own musical twist,” said Director Rosh Raines. “Our production brings together all of the elements that people enjoy in show like this: humor, toe-tapping music, beautiful sets and costumes, and of course, the energetic and unsurpassed talent of our young, aspiring performers.”

This production of “The Addams Family” is offered as part of Theatrical Rights Worldwide’s “Young @ Part” series, which adapts fully-authorized adaptations of Broadway musicals especially for younger actors.

“This will be our fourth installment in our junior musical theatre series, which has become one of the many cherished traditions here at Lincoln Park,” said Producing Artistic Director Justin Fortunato. “These shows give the younger generation of talent here at Lincoln Park the opportunity to take the stage and present an hour-long telling of some of Broadway’s greatest hits. Audiences who enjoyed ‘The Lion King Jr.’ or ‘Elf Jr.’ – which were sell-outs – are sure to enjoy ‘The Addams Family’ Young @ Part.”

The show follows the story of Wednesday Addams, who has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family – a man her parents have never met. Making matters worse, Wednesday confides in her father, the darkly debonair Gomez Addams, and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez 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.

Bringing the tale to life is a 51-person cast, including seven Washington County students: 10th-graders Dylan Blussick of Washington, Sophia Curry of Washington, and Madison Liberatore of Canonsburg; ninth-graders Amarah Narus of West Middletown and Paige Purcell of Burgettstown; eighth-grader Grace Vensel of West Alexander; and seventh-grader Connor Vaccari of Monongahela.

“The Addams Family Young @ Part” is presented as part of “You’re Home,” Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center’s 2018-19 Highmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield Subscription Series. For more information, visit www.LincolnParkArts.org.