Getting to Know The Addams Family

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The Addams Family is moving in February 26 - March 3 at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center, but before you put your house up for sale, let's say hello and get to know the man who created them, Charles Addams. 

The Broadway musical wasinspired by the creations of the legendary American cartoonist Charles Addams,who lived from 1912 until 1988. In 1933, when he was just 21, his work was publishedin The New Yorker, and over the course of nearly sixdecades, he became one of the magazine’s most cherished contributors.
Bizarre,macabre and weird are all words that have been used to describe Charles Addams’cartoons. Yet adjectives such as charming, enchanting and tender can just asaccurately be employed to depict the same body of work, as well as the manhimself.
Hisunique style and wonderfully crafted cartoons enabled his work to transcendsuch dichotomies for his millions of fans worldwide.
CharlesAddams is most widely known for his characters that came to be called TheAddams Family, a group that evolved into multiple television shows, motionpictures and now this Broadway musical. Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Wednesday,Pugsley, Grandma and Lurch existed in various forms and aspects of Addams’cartoons dating back to the 1930’s but were not actually named by him until theearly 1960’s, then the television series was created. 

Surprisingly, The Addams Familycharacters appear in only a small number of the artist’s several thousand works.The majority of his cartoons are occupied by hundreds of other characters, butthere is little doubt that those that come to life on this stage are his mostbeloved creations.   

Over 15 books of hisdrawings have been published around the world, including the new collection, "TheAddams Family: An Evilution," the first complete history of TheAddams Family, including more than 200 cartoons, many never previously published.The collection also includes Addams’ own incisive character descriptions(originally penned for the benefit of the television show producers) that remindus where these oddly lovable characters came from and, in doing so, offer alasting tribute to one of America’sgreatest humorists.

Tickets for The Addams Family start at $54 and are on sale now!