Jilli, I've been meaning to ask you if you have seen the Addam's Family musical and if it is any good?
I haven't seen it, and specifically chose not to when it was here in Seattle. A few years ago I purchased the soundtrack without having heard anything, because HELLO, ADDAMS FAMILY. But most of songs are nothing special, the lyrics try too hard to be ooky-spooky, and the plot makes me want to punch people. Whitefonted for anyone who doesn't want to know:
Wednesday is in her late teens and has fallen in love with a normal boy. He and his family are coming to the Addams house for dinner, and Wednesday pleads with her parents to pretend to be normal people for just one night.
Ugh, no. There's also a subplot about
Morticia having some sort of crisis because she feels she's old, ugly, and that Gomez is no longer interested in her.
From what I remember, it all works out in the end, with everyone accepting each other for who they are, but I can't get past those plot ideas to give it a chance.
However, the opening song of "When You're An Addams" is a lot of fun.
Yeah, "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" is another gut punch.
Ugh, that sounds terrible, Jilli. It sounds like Wicked is a MUCH better gothy musical, with good music and intelligent plot and character development.
Ugh, that sounds terrible, Jilli. It sounds like Wicked is a MUCH better gothy musical, with good music and intelligent plot and character development.
Oh, Wicked is the One True Musical for me, absolutely. The images I've seen from The Addams' Family musical look good - they got the image and style right. But the plot, oh G-d, the plot. I want to find the writers and ask them if they knew anything about the property before they started writing the musical.
Re your whitefont: That is seriously not any iteration of that particular character that I would ever, ever have recognized in a million years. It's in fact an iteration of the character that I'm fairly sure would have the original chanting,
"Kill it, kill it with fire."
That is seriously not any iteration of that particular character that I would ever, ever have recognized in a million years. It's in fact an iteration of the character that I'm fairly sure would have the original chanting, "Kill it, kill it with fire."
Same with the whitefonted subplot, JZ. It sounds like they used
La Cage aux Folles
as the template which is totally wrong.
It's in fact an iteration of the character that I'm fairly sure would have the original chanting, "Kill it, kill it with fire."
Pretty much, yes. And I was so giddy with hope when the news of an Addams Family musical was first announced! But alas, no. And when it was here in Seattle last month, everyone kept asking me if I was going to go, if I was excited about it, and so on. I felt like such a killjoy (and not the MCR kind, dammit) for Holding Forth about the wretchedness of it.
Oh my God, Frank, you're completely right. I KNEW I knew that plot already, but the title kept slipping away.
The guardian movie--anyone have a first (or maybe second, amateur) hand opinion?
