The musical about the supernaturally mysterious and mildly satanic Adams family is based on the book The Addams Family by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. The music and lyrics were written by American Theater Drama Desk Award winner Andrew Lippa. The first performance of the musical was directed by four-time Tony Award-winning director Jerry Zaks, choreographer Sergio Trujillo, and Olivier Award-winning artists Phelim McDermont and Julian Crouch. The premiere took place in New York, on Broadway in 2010. April 8 The success of the play led to new productions of the musical in Europe - in 2012. In Sweden, later - in Finland, Italy, Germany, Czech Republic, England. After making a circle between the continents, the musical shined in new colors in Chicago in 2015.
The characters of the musical are taken from the characters of the American family drawn by Charles Addams, giving them a lot of vampirically macabre details of behavior and appearance. This hilarious family spoof has received comic, animated and feature film versions, but only discovered the musical scene in 2010.
At the heart of this family story is every parent's nightmare, when a daughter, even if she is the last Princess of the Dark Kingdom, Wednesday Adams, grows up to fall in love with - and to her horror - a sweet, intelligent young man from a respectable, respectable family. The young man has never met or seen the macabre parents of his beloved. And as if that were not enough, Friday confides her secret to her father and begs her not to tell her mother. Gomes Adams finds himself in an unprecedented situation - to keep a secret from his wife. What will happen when the entire Addams family gathers one fateful evening for Wednesday's "normal" meeting with her lover and his parents?
But this is only the outer side of this story. Looking deeper, the Adams family, which is "unusual" to our eyes, preserves the most important human values, tells about eternal and unchanging things: family values, intergenerational communication, respect for the wisdom of great-grandparents, and a feeling of love that is not subject to even the highest powers. The libretto also has a clear sense of the uniqueness of the non-traditional Adams family and their relationship with the so-called "normal" citizens, presented in a widely developed palette of excellent humor. In today's world, the problem of loneliness and not fitting in is clearly getting worse, so the Adams family's unconventional approach to the world around them provides light for thinking about how to adapt in an unfriendly environment, and testifies that the main pillar in this relationship is the family.
The production of the musical "The Adams Family" was financed by the Ministry of Culture of Lithuania and the Lithuanian Council of Culture.
