The Addams Family
Samantha Bauer – Head of Drama
Daniel Burley – Assistant Head of Music
From the Production Team
The Addams Family is perhaps best known from the 1960’s TV show and the two movies from the 90’s, but it began as a single-panel comic by Charles Addams in the 1938 New Yorker. When selecting the Musical for 2023 Mr Burley and I were both struck by how the characters were so accepting, supportive and loving despite how creepy and kooky they appeared on the outside.
While so much of what they do is strange and out of the ordinary, it all comes from a place of love. In their world up is down, black is white, ‘happy is sad’ but love is love.
These ideas connect us to our own Emanuel School culture of building acceptance and promoting individuality embedded in the motto: ‘mind, sprit, being”.
Working on this production has been an extremely rewarding experience. Each week brought on new challenges and, with them, great rewards. Once we finally learned the choreography, sorted out the costumes, set up the chandelier, introduced the orchestra, tried on costumes, wigs and applied make up, it became clear the cast were “being Pulled in a new direction.”
The success of this show was in no small part due to our brilliant cast and talented musicians who worked tirelessly to give you, our audience, something so much more than One Normal Night and make this production the amazing show it was!.
We are extremely proud of our Addams Family team and we were thrilled to share our production with you!
Thank you to Ofer levy for photographing this event. Here is a small selection of photos to enjoy:
