Whangarei Theatre Company
The Riverbank Centre
November 10-25.
There is the lovely nostalgia that returns with the first few music beats and the clicking fingers of this musical, directed for Whangarei Theatre Company by Tane Davis.
The Addams family, with a predilection for celebrating spooky ancestors and notoriety for often bizarre and ghoulish joys and delights is as familiar as ... well, family.
The musical, a coming-of-age romantic comedy, was written by Andrew Lippa, based on the original characters created by Charles Addams.
Both Wednesday (Jessica Hamer) and Lucas (Llewelyn Yearbury-Murphy) want their families to be "normal" and not embarrass them at a meet-the-parents event.