Thank you for joining us. Musical theater education benefits are numerous and powerful and exist across student populations, age levels and learning environments. Musical theater education can help young people develop a strong sense of self and identity, build empathy and learning among peers and broaden the ways they make meaning of the world around them. I hope you see this in their performance, their music ability in the pit and in the technical elements. This musical version, based on the characters originally created by cartoonist Charles Addams, opened on Broadway in 2010 and finds the Addams family visiting the graveyard for an annual gathering of all family members, living, dead, and undecided, to celebrate what it is to be an Addams. However, the family encounters an unforeseen obstacle when Wednesday decides to introduce her new “normal” boyfriend Lucas to the family. As the families of Wednesday and Lucas come together for dinner one fateful evening, chaos ensues, and they find themselves admitting deep secrets and coming together in ways they never would have imagined. With a score by Andre Lippa, the show was nominated for two Tonys and won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design and the 2010 Drama League Award for distinguished Achievement In Musical Theatre award, which was presented to Nathan Lane for his portrayal of Gomez Addams. The cast of 50 and crew of 20 have truly created a family among themselves and from the beginning of our process showed their creativity, spirit and drive. I truly could not have asked for a better group of young performers to go through this process with and thank them for their hard work and dedication.
Nick Kougias
Director
