Addams Family: The Musical

Over the weekend I was in New York City. Kitti has never been there, so we decided to make the most of the Memorial Day weekend and went. There are a ton of photos on Flickr if you’re interested.

While we were there, we saw The Addams Family Musical which was better than I expected but not as good as I had hoped. The songs aren’t particularly memorable and I have to admit that I wasn’t impressed by Krysta Rodriguez (Wednesday). She’s a good singer, but she sounds like everybody else. You could pick her up and drop her into any show and she’d be just as good – competent, but no real personality. Wednesday was less Wednesday and more “cute girl in romantic lead role”.

I was impressed by Nathan Lane. I can’t really remember seeing him in anything where it wasn’t OMG THAT’S NATHAN LANE, but this time I actually forgot several times that it was him.

Fester has a cute little ukulele love song to the moon that just made me realize that the show could’ve been a lot better if someone like Stephin Merritt had written them. He’s very good at creepy-but-oddly-sweet (or sweet-but-oddly-creepy) songs.

The set is fantastic though. Some really nice stuff goes on with it, and there are a few times when the set is essentially another character in the show. Grandma is also pretty awesome — her idea of pretending to be “normal” is to burst in through the main doors and declare loudly “BOY IS IT NORMAL OUT THERE.” (That made me think of you, m9m.)

So that was the show. Worth the ticket? Yeah, I think so. Kitti can now say he’s seen a show on Broadway. He’s also smitten with NYC and wants to live there. I’ll miss him. Probably.

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