Spooky, ooky & haunting: Musical version of 'Addams Family' takes over the Cape Cod Theatre Company stage

The wacky and spooky sides of this haunting season will be on view when Cape Cod Theatre Company/Harwich Junior Theatre on Friday opens its production of “The Addams Family Musical,” featuring that strange and kooky family best known from the 1960s TV show and subsequent movies.

In what producers at CCTC/HJT describe as “a comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family,” this musical focuses on a dilemma for young Wednesday Addams, who has grown up in a ghoulish American family with an affinity for all things macabre (first created in cartoons by Charles Addams). Wednesday has fallen in love with a man from a normal and respectable family. What happens when the two families get together for dinner?

"The Addams Family Musical," which features music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa and a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, will be performed at 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays Oct. 7-30 at the theater, 105 Division St., West Harwich. Broadway’s Nick Cearley, a guest artist from New York City and half of the “Undie-Rock” duo The Skivvies, directs.

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The cast includes Brittany Rolfs, Anthony Teixeira, Jess Andra, Trish LaRose, John O Fennell, Kelly Martin, Maryana Crawley, Matt Gardner, Sal Garcia, Ed Donovan and Margy Mahrdt in leading roles. The musical director is Bob Wilder, with choreography by Suzette Hutchinson.

Reservations: https://capecodtheatrecompany.org/; or through OvationTix, 866-811-4111, or the box office (two hours prior to all performances) at 508-432-2002.

Contact Kathi Scrizzi Driscoll at kdriscoll@capecodonline.com. Follow on Twitter: @KathiSDCCT.

This article originally appeared on Cape Cod Times: Cape Cod theater: 'Addams Family' musical opens on West Harwich stage