The family is strange, the costumes are ghoulish, the set is blood red, and the humor is quirky, but love and music prevail at the Strom Auditorium as Camden Hills Regional High School presents the Addams Family. Opening November 6, the annual fall musical involves a cast of 42 and a large student tech crew. As if haunted by its own set of Addams Family ancestors, CHRHS met with more obstacles than usual in preparing this year. But now the show not only goes on but rises above and beyond anyone’s sense of “normal” and carries on the tradition of quality that audiences have come to expect from a Camden Hills musical theater production.

With an entertaining book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, upbeat music by Andrew Lippa, and based on the characters created by Charles Addams, the musical is sure to strike a dark and humorous chord with area audiences.   

An overview of the story can be found at Theatrical Rights Worldwide:  “The Addams family features an original story, and it’s every father’s nightmare.  Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family – a man her parents have never met.  And if that weren’t upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother.  Now Gomez Addams must do what he has never done before - keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia.  

Everything will change for the whole family on a fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s ‘normal” boyfriend and parents.”  

The Addams Family leads includes family head Gomez (Nick Greer) and as his wife, Morticia (Bridget Mellon).  Their family includes daughter Wednesday (Molly Mann), son Pugsley (Tatum Dowd), Uncle Fester (Robbie Carroll), Grandma (Kara Robak) and Lurch (Jackson Day).  The visiting Beineke family is played by Wilson McKay, Maggie Karas, and Jack Nathan.  Alex Jurek will make a cameo appearance as Cousin Itt.  

The active ensemble of Addams Family Ancestors, which includes featured dancers and singers, will be played by Becca Agnor, Gideon Baeza, Sarah Brennan, Anna Christie, Elizabeth Cummons, Erica Durkee, Sylvan Gamage, Eric Glaser, Lydia Hill, McKenzie Hilt, Annie James, Brynn Kooyenga, Cora Lindell, Bella Merrill, Isabelle Olson, Natalie Owre, Hope Orsmond, Lochlin Recht, Lindsey Reilly, Eliza Robinson, Bekah Schade, Alexys Schaeffer, Berglind Sigurbjörnsdóttir, Amanda Teixeira, Melissa Tracy-Torres, Nick Watts, Emma Wilton, Gabe Wright, and Evan Yandel.

The CHRHS production of The Addams Family will play Nov. 6,7,13 and 14 at 7 p.m. and Nov. 8 at 2 p.m. Advance ticket sales are $12 for Reserved (front section) seats and $10/$6 for General Admission.  

At-the-door prices increase to $15/$12/$8.  Tickets can be purchased in advance, online at stromtickets.com or reserved by calling 236-7800 ext 282.  

Email stromtickets@gmail.com for ticket orders or more information.  

As an added attraction, any audience member who comes to the Friday the 13th show dressed as a member of the Addams Family gets a free raffle ticket.  There will be a themed basket raffle as well as a chance to win Fester’s ukulele.