‘The Addams Family’ pays a visit to Polson
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POLSON — Just in time for Halloween, the famous creepy and kooky Addams family made a visit to Polson last week during the Polson High School Theatre Department’s adaptation of the musical comedy “The Addams Family.”
Playing on both Wednesday and Friday evening at the PHS auditorium, audiences were very supportive of the seasonally appropriate musical directed by Brittany Simonich and Bob DiGiallonardo.
“We were overjoyed with the turnout,” Simonich said. “We haven’t had those large of numbers for a high school play in quite some time.”
This musical production, created by Andrew Lippa, Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, melds darkness with music, humor and a hopeful message about what really matters in life.
The show follows the quirky and ghoulish characters Morticia Addams (Kamdyn Burrough), Gomez Addams (Seth Stanley), Wednesday Addams (Caitlyn Ward), Pugsley Addams (Dixie Montgomery), Uncle Fester (Beau Wright), Grandma (Hillary Lamphere) and Lurch (Corbin Bennett) as daughter Wednesday looks to marry into a regular family.
Wednesday invites new boyfriend Lucas Beineke (Achilles Maroney) and his parents, Mal (Jack Mausshardt) and Alice (Aryia Dentler), to dinner resulting in clashes between the two families and, eventually, the realization by the “ordinary” folks that they were missing out on life.
The cast also included Addams Family ancestors played by Madelynn Simpson, Bethany Butler, Krystanna Larson, Shanoah Mccool, Victoria Niblack, Faith Combs, Alex Haynes, Michelle Dale and Davyn Lamphere.
“We rehearsed just under 9 weeks for the show,” explained Simonich. “The amount of work it took to put on a musical was a huge undertaking, but the cast and crew worked so hard and stayed dedicated.”
“We are very proud of their performance,” she added. “We thought the group did a great job. I would like to highlight Seth’s performance as Gomez. He had the most lines to learn out of any cast member, alone with the most songs. Seth initially wanted to be a stagehand and work backstage at our first informational meeting, and then he rose to the challenge and did an amazing job.”
